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Screening nature and nation : the environmental documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25684
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Clemens, Michael D.
- Publisher
- Athabasca, AB : AU Press
- Call Number
- 06.3 C59s
- Author
- Clemens, Michael D.
- Publisher
- Athabasca, AB : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is an institution profoundly woven into the fabric of Canadian culture. The documentaries they produced not only influenced cinematic language, but their stunning portrayals of the landscape has shaped our perception of the environment and our place in it. Screening Nature and Nation examines how Canadians have engaged with these films and how the depictions of the land and its people have reflected the prevailing attitudes of the times.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Filming like a state -- Visions of the North -- Cry of the wild -- Challenge for change.
- ISBN
- 9781771993357
- Accession Number
- P2023.01
- Call Number
- 06.3 C59s
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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