This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...the cinema is admittedly not a vital factor, educators are coming to recognize the tremendous educational power enclosed within the footage of an unimportant appearing motion picture reel. From the BIOSCOPE comes a brief note not particularly startling as to the information contained but very illuminating in showing which way the wind is beginning to blow in England. Recently a moving picture house in Edinburgh, the King's Cinema, by name, showed a picture of the travels of the Prince of Wales through Australia, that was considered highly informational as well as patriotically appealing. The educational authorities of the old Scotch city thought the picture so valuable from a pedagogical standpoint that they made arrangements for 7,000 school children to see the picture. The Director of Education at Cleckheaton in West Riding, Yorkshire, having read the synopsis of the film requested a supply for distribution to his school teachers in order that the various countries through which the Prince of Wales passed might be fully explained to the children. There was also arranged a special matinee for the children of Cleckheaton. If these signs presage anything the value of the' motion picture as an educational factor is beginning to dawn upon our conservative neighbors., IT is really refreshingly different in these days of screen adulation to find so well-known a person as Thomas Burke vilifying the motion picture in no uncertain terms. The LITERARY DI GEST reports in part his outburst together with an account of the reply of CAMERA, Los Angeles. Mr. Burke has no kindness at all for the cinema, declaring most frankly that he loathes it and considers it "still in the street of the penny gaff." "There is no art" says he "in this business of ...
Macedonians started immigrating to Canada in the late 1800s, yet the community has never had its history recorded - until now. Lillian Petroff, in her book Sojourners and Settlers, has remedied that omission in an informative and enjoyable manner. She charts the settlement patterns, living and working conditions, religious life, and political activity of Macedonians in Toronto from the early twentieth century to the Second World War. The first Macedonians who came to Toronto lived an almost isolated existence in a distinct set of neighbourhoods that were centred around their church, stores, and boarding houses. They moved with little awareness of the city-at-large since the needs of their families in the old country and political events in their homeland were much more important to them than developments in Toronto and Canada. A greater interest in Canada began to take root only after Macedonians began to think less like sojourners and more like settlers. This transition was often accompanied by a move from bachelorhood to marriage and from industrial labour to individual entrepreneurial activities. Employing a wealth of primary written and oral source material, Petroff tells the remarkable story of the men and women who laid the foundation for what would become a significant community in the Toronto area, which today represents the largest community of Macedonians outside the Balkans.
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