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Broad Is the Way

Stories from Mayerthorpe

By: Margaret Norquay

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Broad Is the Way

Stories from Mayerthorpe

By: Margaret Norquay

In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven years there. Told with affection and gentle humour, the stories cover the challenges, heartaches, and delights of a young community and a minister and his wife in a very new marriage. Topics include the experience of orphan children sent to work on Western farms, manoeuvring for a restroom downtown for farmers’ wives in need of a place to change their babies while their husbands did business, dealing with the RCMP over liquor found in the church basement, and the generosity of spirit shown by the community to the Norquays. Throughout the book, Margaret Norquay’s indomitable spirit and determination are evident and illustrate her passionate belief in making positive change and having fun while doing it.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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155458762X

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9781554587629

Votes for Women

and Other Plays

By: Elizabeth Robins,Cicely Hamilton,Inez Bensusan,Chris St John,Alice Chapin,Margaret W. Nevinson,Helen M. Nightingale,L.S. Phibbs

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Votes for Women

and Other Plays

By: Elizabeth Robins,Cicely Hamilton,Inez Bensusan,Chris St John,Alice Chapin,Margaret W. Nevinson,Helen M. Nightingale,L.S. Phibbs

The best collection of suffrage plays on offer Introduced and set in historical context by Dr Susan Croft, formerly Curator at the Theatre Museum in London, with a chronology of suffrage drama from 1907-1914. The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political stage with their satirical plays, sketches and monologues whilst at the same time challenging the staid conventions of the Edwardian Theatre of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both theatre and society has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today. Full playtexts from the following: ’How the Vote was Won’ by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John ’The Apple’ by Inez Bensusan ’Jim s Leg’ by L.S. Phibbs ’Votes for Women’ by Elizabeth Robins ’At the Gates’ by Alice Chapin ’In the Workhouse’ by Margaret Wynne Nevinson ’A Change of Tenant’ by Helen Margaret Nightingale.

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Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.

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1906582750

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9781906582753

A Concise History of Canada

By: Margaret Conrad

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A Concise History of Canada

By: Margaret Conrad

Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a curiously reluctant player on the international stage. This intelligent, concise and lucid book explains just why that is.

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345

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Cambridge University Press

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1107376548

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9781107376540

Sir Oliver Mowat

By: A. Margaret Evans

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Sir Oliver Mowat

By: A. Margaret Evans

Few political leaders in Ontario's history have had as lasting an impact on the province, and perhaps on the nation, as Oliver Mowat, premier from 1872 to 1896. Under his leadership Ontario flourished economically, socially, and politically. Among the many political skills that Mowat brought to office, one of the most useful was pragmatism. He was able to establish a rock-solid style that appealed to a wide spectrum of the electorate: rural and urban, Catholic and Protestant. He was also adept at redrawing constituency boundaries and extending the franchise at opportune times. Margaret Evans's biography of Mowat is in some ways the story of a golden age in the province's history. During this period Ontario modernized agriculture and industry, opened the north, developed natural resources, addressed social problems, and accepted trade unions. Above all, it established itself as the dominant province in Confederation. This last was accomplished through a stubborn struggle with Ottawa. John A. Macdonald fought hard against Mowat's provincial-rights moves, and referred to the premier as 'the little tyrant.' But Mowat prevailed. The Canada that emerged was a less centralized state than Macdonald had ever wanted; the provinces had substantially more power. A century later, that legacy of diffused power has been at the centre of much of Canada's constitutional debate.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487596782

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The State of Maori Rights

By: Margaret Mutu

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The State of Maori Rights

By: Margaret Mutu

The State of Maori Rights brings together a set of articles written between 1994 and 2009. It places on record the Maori view of events and issues that took place over these years, issues that have been more typically reported to the general public from a ‘mainstream’ media perspective. It is an important documentation of these fifteen years of New Zealand history, recording the assertion of Maori rights as the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, focusing on Maori issues and experiences and written from a Maori perspective. The reviews demonstrate the ongoing settling of grievances against the Crown for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, the solutions Maori have advocated and the benefits to the country when Maori advice on these matters is followed. Key issues include: - the 1994 ‘fiscal envelope’ - the 50,000-strong protest march against foreshore and seabed - Pakeha media attacks on Maori MPs and Maori initiatives. Maori success stories are also acknowledged such as Michael Campbell, Robert Hewitt, Willie Apiata and films such as Whale Rider.

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Huia Publishers

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1775502805

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9781775502807

Saskatchewan's Communities in the 21st Century

From Places to Regions

By: Jack C. Stabler,Margaret Rose Olfert,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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Saskatchewan's Communities in the 21st Century

From Places to Regions

By: Jack C. Stabler,Margaret Rose Olfert,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

This report traces the evolution of Saskatchewan's trade centre system for the 40 years between 1961 & 2001. For assessing & classifying communities into functional categories, 68 variables are used. In assessing a community's status & future prospects, the systematic trade centre relationships, the demand thresholds required to support trade & service activities, and the impact of non-systematic events such as the establishment of a manufacturing plant or mine are taken into account. The relationship between infrastructure & economic development is also discussed. The events summarized emphasize a continuous extension of the geographic framework within which people journey to work, shop, attend school, obtain health care and, in general, live their everyday lives. In this process, the concept of community, as a functional entity, has evolved from village or town to a region large enough to satisfy the everyday requirements of rural dwellers.

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University of Regina Press

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0889771472

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9780889771475

Broad Is the Way

Stories from Mayerthorpe

By: Margaret Norquay

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Stories from Mayerthorpe

By: Margaret Norquay

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

The book contains a full bibliography, missing only the last few years, and an introduction by Mead on her writings.

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Walter de Gruyter

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9027930260

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9789027930262

Who in the World Is Margaret Sherman?

By: Margaret Sherman

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Who in the World Is Margaret Sherman?

By: Margaret Sherman

The idea for this book was presented to me March 15, 1995. It came off the press December 1995. That made this book my baby and I didn't have one labor pain while it was being delivered. Everyone says it reads so easily. It was almost like it was meant to be. I self financed all 5500 and only have three left. I never asked anyone to buy a book. I carry a business card that says "Sales, promotions and Freelance Writer." When I hand that out, without fail the person will say 'What kind of things do you write?" When I tell them about the book they will say "Where can I get one" and I say "Oh, I just happen to have them in the trunk of my car." Now as far as I know through personal sales the books are in 38 states of the USA plus three in Germany, one each in Canada, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, China, Belize, Scotland and the latest one in Wales.

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0759683913

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Broad Is the Way

Broad Is the Way

Votes for Women

Votes for Women

A Concise History of Canada

A Concise History of Canada

Sir Oliver Mowat

Sir Oliver Mowat

The State of Maori Rights

The State of Maori Rights

Saskatchewan's Communities in the 21st Century

Saskatchewan's Communities in the 21st Century

Broad Is the Way

Broad Is the Way

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Who in the World Is Margaret Sherman?

Who in the World Is Margaret Sherman?

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