For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940’s. For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country thousands of miles away with a man they hardly knew ...
Home child Mary Janeway runs away from her farm placement, grows into adulthood, and ultimately comes to terms with life in Hamilton, Ontario. Sixteen-year-old Mary Janeway, a home child, is desperate to escape from her rural home child placement and flees to London, Ontario, to find a domestic position. When conditions become unbearable, she moves on, vowing never to relinquish her freedom again. After she arrives in Hamilton as a young bride, ...
The Chinese have become a vibrant part of Toronto’s multiculturalism, with no less than seven Chinatowns created since 1984. Short-listed for the 2013 Speaker’s Book Award and for the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastw ...
In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States immediately after World War II, especially when it came to women’s reproductive health. Both legal and medical institutions—and the male legislators and physician ...
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transf ...
Das offizielle bdia Handbuch Innenarchitektur 2020/21 prasentiert die aktuellen Trends und das herausragende Gestaltungsniveau der Innenarchitektur in Deutschland. Von privaten Wohnhausern, Szene-Gastronomie, Hotel-Design, Gewerbekonzepten, bis hin zu offentlichen Bauaufgaben und Bildungsstatten, werden alle Branchen abgebildet. Jedes Projekt wird ausfuhrlich und nachvollziehbar vorgestellt. Zukunftsthemen der Innenarchitektur werden in drei Fac ...
" I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understand the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering. "— Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)" Everything is within walking distance if you have the time. "—Stephen Wright (1955—)For approximately six million years, humans have walked the earth. This is the story of how, why, and ...
La TV –i, per extensio, la pantalla digital– ens permet veure que hi ha mes enlla del que tenim davant; podem trobar-hi traces del passat, anticipar el futur o superar els limits de l'espai. La tecnologia digital ens fa mes lliures si sabem utilitzar-la. Per aixo l'escola no pot renunciar a educar en l'us d'aquestes tecnologies. Miquel Pages i Marc Planas expliquen, en primera persona, l'experiencia de posar en marxa una ...
Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disastersR ...
