Bridging two peoples Sherwin, Allan L
Bridging two peoples,
c2012, 2012, 2012-09-01, 2012-06-01
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Dr Peter E Jones, in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and ...band doctor. This title presents his story.
Governance in northern Ontario Segsworth, Bob; Conteh, Charles
Governance in northern Ontario,
2013, 20131211, 2013, 2013-12-11
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This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government ...engagement with the region.
In the power of the government Kuhlberg, Mark
In the power of the government,
2015, 20150317, 2015, 2015-01-01, 2015-03-27
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Mark Kuhlberg challenges the orthodox interpretation of the relationship between the corporations which ran the Ontario's pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen's Park in the early ...twentieth century.
Tenants in time Wilson, Catharine Anne
Tenants in time,
c2009, 20081104, 2014, 2008, 2009-02-25, 2008-11-04, 20090101
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The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement history - Tenants in Time tells a different story. Tenancy, though relegated to the periphery by the liberal idealization of ownership, was a ...common and vital part of the economy and society. Against a background of international land agitation and using an inter-disciplinary approach, Catharine Wilson looks at life as a tenant farmer, providing new insights into family strategies, land markets, and the growth of liberalism. Using evidence from across Upper Canada she shows how tenancy transformed the landscape and tied old and new settlers together in a continuum of mutual dependence that was essential to settlement, capital creation, and social mobility. Her analysis of customary rights reveals a landlord-tenant relationship - and a concept of ownership - more complex and flexible than previously understood. Landlords, from ordinary farmers to absentee aristocrats, are also part of the story and the much-criticized clergy reserves take a positive role. An intimate exploration of Cramahe Township follows tenants over the generations as they supported their families and combined liberal ideas with household-centered ways. From aggregate statistics to individual human dramas, Tenants in Time unravels the life of the tenant farmer in a wonderfully documented, engaging, and compelling argument.
City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are ...taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. Hughes uses her framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. She then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.
Respectable Citizensis an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined ...the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.
With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. ...They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.
Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.
In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.
The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource.
The quarter century that followed the end of the Second World
War was marked by intense social and economic transformation: the
changing face of postwar capitalism, a revolution in communications
...technology, the rise of youth culture, and the pronounced ascent of
individual freedom all contributed to a dramatic push to remake,
and thus improve, society. This push was especially felt within
education, the primary vehicle for modernizing the postwar world
from the ground up. Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia
explores this moment of renewal through a powerful and influential
education reform project: 1968's Living and Learning: The
Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of
Education in the Schools of Ontario . The Hall-Dennis report,
as it became known, urged Ontarians to accept a new vision of
education in which students were no longer organized in classes,
their progress no longer measured by grades, and their experience
no longer characterized by the painful acquisition of subjects, but
rather by a joyous and open-ended process of learning. This new,
democratic system of education was associated with the highest
ideals of postwar progress, liberalism, and humanism, yet its
recommendations were paradoxically both profoundly radical and
fundamentally conservative. Its avant-garde research strategies and
controversial "post-literate" curricular reforms were balanced by a
pedagogical approach designed to mould students into obedient
citizens and productive economic actors. As Canadians once again
find themselves asking fundamental questions about the aims and
objectives of education under radically changing circumstances,
Josh Cole revisits Hall-Dennis to show how the committee and its
report represent a significant moment in Canadian cultural and
political history, a prescient document in the history of
education, and a revealing expression of the fragmentary
circumstances of global modernity in the second half of the
twentieth century.
Aki-Wayn-zih Baxter, Eli
2021, 2021-09-15, Letnik:
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Aki-wayn-zih is one man's story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together with traditional legends in their ...original language. A story about the land and its relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Turtle Island to the present day.
