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The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colonys farm-labour shortage.

They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This is an extraordinary but almost forgotten odyssey that the Calgary Herald has called, "One of the finest pieces of Canadian social history ever to be written." Kenneth Bagnell tells "an affecting tale of Dickensian pathos" (Vancouver Sun) that is "excellent ... well organized, logical, clearly written, [and] suspenseful" (The Edmonton Journal).

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Short-listed for the 2009 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

Much has been made about how the New China has become an economic juggernaut in todays world while civil liberties and basic freedoms remain constricted. We know where the aging leadership has taken and is taking China, but what about the very young? What are they like?

When JoAnn Dionne arrived in Guangzho, she came prepared to live and teach elementary school in a Communist country. She expected to see soldiers in the streets, people in grey Mao suits, and lineups to buy toilet paper. Instead she found the worlds oldest country, throwing itself headlong into the future. She found traffic jams and 24/7 constructions, neon lights and smog, shopping malls and modern high-rises. And then she met the people who would live in that future her students. Along with crisp insights into Chinese culture as seen through the eyes of a North American, Dionne provides a funny, often poignant glimpse of a nation undergoing rapid transformation.

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Lightkeeping on the St. Lawrence outlines the history of lightkeeping in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf from its emergence in 1803 until automation replaced the last lightkeeper in 1988. Fog, hidden reefs, rocks, and sandbars have made the waters of the river and gulf among the most treacherous in the world. In the earliest days of lightkeeping in this region, the safety of the mariners had to be weighed against the problem of giving aid to enemy ships. With peace between French and English, safety became the overriding factor and the number of lighthouses, then light pillars and lightships, increased dramatically.

This is a tale of shipwrecks and storms, of the lonely existence of the keeper who endured harsh working conditions, often alone or with but one or two assistants. While some lighthouses offered accommodation for the keepers family, the occupation of lightkeeping was always one of stark isolation. Based on extensive archival material and interviews with surviving lighkeepers, the book describes the onerous working day of the men of the lights, whose duties ranged from painstakingly cleaning reflectors to repeatedly sounding the fog signal on an endless night watch. It was a difficult life with scant reward, but the diligence of the keeper kept the country open to commerce in times of peace, and safe from enemy attack in times of war.

Published with the assistance of Parks Canada in both English and French editions, the book includes thirty-five illustrations (many in full colour), maps, and tables.

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Lawren Stewart Harris artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist and mystical developments until the end of his life.

Canadians praise Harris landscapes and admire him as a planner of innovative and heroic-sounding sketching trips into the North. He is also recognized as the chief organizer of the Group of Seven. A long list of younger artists he considered creative greatly benefited from Harris encouragement and often generous, practical help; many of them have been interviewed for this book.

In the lives of some Canadians harris still functions as a gurulike guide a role he was quite content to take on during his own lifetime because of the spiritual content of his art and aesthetic writings and the example of his optimistic, vigorous and apparently untroubled life. But Harris was not an untroubled life, and Light for a Cold Land examines his personal crises and difficulties, some of which caused important changes in his art.

The book also uncovers the painting styles, artistic tensions and cultural dynamics of the German milieu in which Harris received his only formal art education. His student years in Berlin profoundly influenced not only his art but also his artistic politics and his philosophy. It is ironic that in the art of this most articulate of Canadian nationalist painters, there are extensive German influences.

Light for a Cold Land is the first art-historical study of Lawren Harris that attempts to explore his life and all aspects of his career. It is based on extensive work in archives, libraries, public art galleries and private collections in Canada, as well as research in Germany and interviews with members of Harris family and many of his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and critics.

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By the time Amelia Hall died suddenly in December 1984 she had become one of Canadas most respected and well-loved actresses. In this book she has left an incomparable record of her early years in the professional theatre in Canada. In particular, these memoirs chronicle the history of the Canadian Repertory Theatre of Ottawa, one of the first professional repertory theatres in Canada. Under Amelia Halls direction in the late forties and early fifties, the CRT gave a start to the careers of such notable Canadian actors as Christopher Plummer, Eric House, William Hutt, Ted Follows and William Shatner.

In these days of long-running corporate subsidized extravaganzas, it is instructive to read of the struggles and accomplishments of these pioneers of theatre in Canada, performing weekly repertory on a shoestring budget, with few facilities adn minuscule salaries. Yet it was these enthusiasts who provided the basis for the flowering of the Canadian theatrical scene in the 1960s and 1970s. It is appropriate that these memoirs should culminate in Amelia Halls portrayal of the Lady Anne in Richard III opposite Alec Guinness at the first Stratford Festival in 1953, making her the first Canadian and the first woman to speak on the Stratford stage.

This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs from Amelia Halls personal collection, now housed at the National Archives of Canada.

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The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

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B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzies and Lewis and Clarks) across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name.

Employed by the Montreal-based North West Company, Fraser was responsible for building many of British Columbias first trading posts. His exploratory efforts helped lead to Canadas boundary later being declared at the 49th parallel. In this new volume, librarian and archivist W. Kaye Lamb provides a detailed introduction as well as illuminating annotations to Frasers journals, which were originally published by Macmillan of Canada in 1960.

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Des exemples canadiens de mutinerie et de desobeissance, de 1920 a nos jours

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Le leadership militaire possede deux dimensions : une dimension officielle et une dimension non officielle. Dans toute organisation, le leadership officiel doit sans cesse veiller a limiter lecart entre les buts institutionnels et les actes des leaders non officiels. Si lecart se creuse, on assiste parfois a une MUTINERIE! Linsubordination et la non conformite constituent une forme de dialogue entre les militaires et leurs leaders. Le present recueil ouvre une fenetre sur la mutinerie dans les forces armees canadiennes au vingtieme siecle, dans lespoir doffrir des lecons pertinentes pour le present.

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Perspectives sur les chefs militaires canadiens

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Le commandement et le leadership sont des caracteristiques tres personnelles. La facon dont un militaire commande et fait preuve de leadership revele son caractere et sa personnalite plutot que de jeter la lumiere sur les concepts de commandement et de leadership. Le volume des Guerriers intrepides : Perspectives sur les chefs militaires canadiens etudie attentivement certains des meilleurs commandants et leaders militaires du Canada pendant la guerre. Dans leur ensemble, les chapitres du volume permettent de mieux comprendre divers comportements, approches et styles relatifs au commandement et au leadership. De plus, ils appuient la verite intemporelle selon laquelle le caractere et la presence de leaders courageux sont essentiels pour obtenir des resultats sur le plan militaire, particulierement en periode dincertitude et de desordre.

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Des exemples canadiens de mutinerie et de desobeissance, 1812 a 1919

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Il y a des siecles que les soldats canadiens servent honorablement leur pays. Il est toutefois arrive que leur conduite ait ete tout sauf honorable! Que ce soit en desobeissant aux ordres, en terrorisant la population locale ou en commettant divers crimes, certains soldats se sont comportes aux antipodes de ce quest une conduite appropriee pour un militaire. De la guerre de 1812 jusquaux sombres lendemains de la Premiere Guerre mondiale, Les Apathiques et les rebelles illustre avec eloquence que la desobeissance et la mutinerie ont marque tous les grands conflits auxquels le Canada a participe. Les victoires et les triomphes du Canada ont longtemps laisse dans lombre les episodes dindiscipline qua connus larmee canadienne... jusqua aujourdhui.

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Legal & Financial Aspects of Architectural Conservation

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The Smolenice Castle Conference Central Europe

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How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of neighbourhoods? In this international study, eighteen experts from ten countries describe the legal challenges and solutions relating to such property. Beyond a carefully described theoretical framework, actual case studies demonstrate how communities and countries can make adjustments to their legislation so that older buildings can be better protected

This book stems from an international conference at Smolenice Castle in Slovakia, in November 1994.

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A History of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto

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Begun in 1891, the Childrens Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America. It has played a leading roll as an advocate of childrens welfare; it has been instrumental in influencing child welfare practice not only in Ontario but all of Canada and elsewhere. With an emphasis on the post-World War II period, A Legacy of Caring examines the political, social, and economic factors that led to changes within the society itself as well as developments in legislation and social policy. The society has been a training ground for many highly committed professionals who have gone on to be leaders in other governmental and nongovernmental agencies in Canada and abroad.

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Children's Aid Society Foundation, Donald F. Bellamy, Gail Aitken, John McCullagh

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The world as we know it has been turned upside down by recent events but its still a place where leadership is needed more than ever.

Fifteen Canadians with highly diverse perspectives and richly different experience explore this timely question in Leading in an Upside-Down World.

Chapter by chapter, stories of Canada unfold and future prospects for leadership grow clearer as these eminent Canadians explain how to "recognize leadership" in an age where old institutions and behaviours are being left behind. They also identify leadership attributes that endure. Leading in an Upside-Down World gives voice to both scholars and practitioners of Canadian-style leadership.

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Exprime en toute simplicite, le leadership consiste a influencer les gens afin datteindre un quelconque objectif qui a de limportance pour le chef, le groupe et lorganisation. Cest lelement humain qui permet aux chefs de diriger, de motiver et dinspirer les troupes, surtout en temps de crise, lorsque la situatioin est chaotique et complexe et que les directives, les declarations officielles et les communiques ne produisent guere deffet sur les subalternes geles, epuises et tendus. Un bon leadership incite les subordonnes a aller au-dela du devoir dobeissance et a se devouer pour la reussite de la mission, dune maniere qui contribue a maximiser leur plein potentiel. Le Precis de leadership militaire est un manuel concret et comprehensif qui identifie, decrit, et explique tous les concepts, themes et idees qui sappliquent directement ou indirectement au leadership militaire. Ce livre est un sommaire comprehensif qui a comme point de mire plusieurs sujets dont la cohesion, le commandement, lintelligence culturelle, la discipline, la peur et la confiance. Ce precis offre une assistance a qui veut mieux comprendre la theorie et lapplication du leadership militaire.

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Le leadership militaire canadien francais

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Les Canadiens francais ont une longue et fiere tradition de service envers leur pays. Cette tradition est plus que manifeste au sein de la profession de armes. Deja du temps des premieres colonies, les Canadiens francais ont marque leur nouveau pays en le defendant. Ils ont joue un role critique comme combattants contre des autochtones hostiles et les autres puissances europeennes colonisatrices. A la suite de la Conquete, ils ont continue, quoique sous une allegeance differente, a defendre le Canada. Ainsi, ce livre met en lumiere le devouement et les contributions dun certain nombre de leaders canadiens francais envers leur pays en temps de paix, de crise et de guerre, de lepoque de la Nouvelle-France a la fin du vingtieme siecle.

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J.H.P.M Caron, Roch Legault, Colonel Bernd Horn

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Lake of the Old Uncles recounts a trip that began three-quarters of a century ago in a small village inn nestled in the Laurentian hills of French-speaking Quebec. One day, the trip will end at the village cemetery, just one kilometre from the inn. The traveller is the author. The trip is not long, but is rich in rural and natural experiences along the way. Gerard Kenney takes us along the route that led him to build the lone log cabin on the small and inaccessible Lake of the Old Uncles. No roads reach the pond, only a footpath. The hours spent in the quietude of the forest cabin have had an effect on the author that has resulted in a personal philosophy, both rural and natural, inspired by his hero, Henry David Thoreau. Gerard Kenney shares with his readers the evolution of his philosophy through his personal experiences with people and with the wilderness flora and fauna he has encountered on his lifes journey.

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In the turbulent decade which produced the Canadian Confederation of 1867, a group of seasoned veterans of the American Civil War turned their attention to the conquest of Canada. They were Irish-American revolutionaries unique because they fought under their own flag. They were know as the Fenians and they believed that the first step on the road to the liberation of Ireland was to invade Canada. The Last Invasion of Canada vividly recaptures the drama of the decade. It recounts the fledgling nations rag-tag, but patriotic, defence against an enemy committed to a glorious cause, but with only scattered resources. It is a story of courage, espionage and petty crime, and of mismatched motivations and goals.

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Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection.

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Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean

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Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of the most dramatic events ever to occur on the North American continent. From the earliest explorations of First Nations and French adventurers to the brazen rumrunners of the Prohibition era and beyond, this fascinating book takes the reader inside the remarkable personalities and harrowing events that have shaped the lake and the towns and cities that surround it. Based on thorough research, extensive travels, and firsthand accounts from the people who have lived, worked and made their names on the lake, Lake Erie Stories takes a fresh look at the history of what may be the most colourful of all the Great Lakes.

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La fonction de general et l'art de l'amiraute

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Cette collection, qui regroupe des essais rediges par des officiers des Forces canadiennes et par deminents auteurs et universitaires canadiens, fait etat de lexperience canadienne unique et donne un apercu des changements dont le commandement au sein des forces armees a fait lobjet. Ce livre examine tout particulierement le travail des generaux - a laide dun certain nombre delements tels que lexperience historique, la nature du commandement, les operations recentes, les relations entre les civils et les militaires y compris celles avec les medias, les roles et les responsabilites fonctionnelles liees au travail des generaux.

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Kings Men is the story of the Loyalist regiments who became the soldier founders of the Province of Ontario, the Loyal Colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, Canadian Command, during the American revolution.

Mythology on the United Empire Loyalists who founded two Canadian provinces is ingrained. We often envisage loyal families marching out of the victorious United States at the close of the American Revolution. But these myths lead us to overlook a fascinating period in the lives of one group of Loyalists the soldiers who became Ontarios founders.

By the time the Treaty of Separation was signed in 1783, four full strength corps were serving in Canada. These were the Royal Highland Emigrants (placed on the regular establishment in 1778, as the 84th Foot), the Kings Royal Regiment of New York, Butlers Rangers, and the Loyal Rangers. A fifth corps, the Kings rangers amounted to three full companies.

A detailed study on what these Provincials achieved is long overdue. Kings Men fills a gap in tracing the lives of these United Empire Loyalists who first fought under British command, and spent a difficult period as displaced persons in Canada (people whose only desire was to return to their homes in Britains older colonies) till the time when they accepted Canada as a new homeland.