Native Leaders of Canada - Donald Marshall, Sr. (n.d.). New Federation House - Maison Nouvelle Fédération. Retrieved from http://www.newfederation.org/Native_Leaders/Bios/Marshall.htm…
Everyone in Canada knows the name of our current Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but he has done nothing compared to our very first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald. Macdonald did many things for our country, including making it a country, and it all started from his vision. He had a vision to unite all of Canada as one through a transcontinental railway, which went on to be known as the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The CPR cost a ton of money though, and the Canadian government just didn’t have enough money to keep pouring it into the CPR. Macdonald needed money, and he decided to get it from Hugh Allen, which led to the Pacific Scandal. Due to the Pacific Scandal, Macdonald was kicked out of office, and by the time the next election came around, he knew that he needed a political platform to win the election. In 1876 he created the National Policy, which became the basis of the Conservative election platform during the 1878 election. This National Policy had three initiatives to it; to create a system of protective tariffs against foreign goods; to encourage greater immigration to the west; the cornerstone of the national policy was to finish off the CPR. The National Policy got Macdonald back in power, more importantly though, Macdonald’s National Policy hugely impacted Canada economically, politically, and socially.…
Title : Bronze sculpture in the renaissance THESIS : Preston Smith the thinker, bronze sculpture portrait of the idea of accomplishment through education, its gesture and stance by sculptor Glenna Goodarce 1985. Governor of Texas 1968-1972 Lt. Governor of Texas 1962-1968 State senator 1956-1962 House of representative 1944-1950 Graduate of Texas Tech University 1934. Honored with distinguished alumnus award 1969 This bronze sculpture, portrays the idea of accomplishment through education.…
In this newspaper article, the author emphasizes the fact that the B.C. First Nations grand chief, Stewart Phillip, has recently declined to participate in a royal ceremony. This was done as an act of protest from the grand chief, with his argument being that there are too many problems in his communities that the provincial and federal governments have ignored. The author of this article, Hina Alam, is a journalist who has worked for many different newspapers including the Times of India, the Lufkin…
[ 2 ]. J.M.S Careless, Canada: A Celebration of our History, (Canadian Heritage Gallery, 1997)…
With the United States being Canada’s only neighbor, comparisons and similarities have been made regarding all forms of the two nations for many years. Seymour Martin Lipset tries to explain the difference between Canada and the United States in the 1980s through different aspects, such as religion, economy, culture and politics. However, it is a very difficult task to break down the two country’s similarities and differences through only a few pages. While I believe that Lipset’s arguments on the similarities and differences between Canada and the United States may have been effective in the 1980’s, I do not believe that the same arguments would hold the same weight today as they did back then. Factors have changed within both of the two nations…
Bibliography: Francis, R.D., Jones, R., Smith, D.B. and Wardaugh, R., Destinies: Canadian History Since Confederation. 7th Ed. Toronto, Thomson, Nelson, 2012…
On a September afternoon in Southern Ontario, Alexander MacDonald travels along Highway 3, to visit his older brother, Calum, once a great chief of the Scottish-Canadian clan in Cape Breton, but now an alcoholic that lives in a forgotten apartment in Toronto. “No great Mischief”, tells the story of the MacDonald’s that arrived to the New World in 1779 but remained loyal to their traditions. The story is narrated from Alexander MacDonald’s eyes. He grew up in Cape Breton and orphan at the age of 3, he and his twin sister were raised by their Grandparents; people whose motto was “Always look after your own blood”. They lived their childhood apart from their older brothers, but fate pulls them back together. After his graduation day, Alexander joins Calum and the Scottish clan to work at the uranium mines. Alexander unmasked the true meaning of family, compassion and death through heart-breaking and joyful stories. “No Great Mischief”……
All through his career in politics, Pierre Trudeau was able to introduce skills through which he was able to break all the barrier. It’s evident that Pierre Trudeau was an ideal political figure in Canada because he progressively fought to keep Quebec in Canada, helped the growth of Canada’s independence internationally, and passed many acts and laws that guaranteed the safety and freedom of Canadians. Therefore, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the most significant post-WWII prime minister because his innovative policies assisted the growth of Canada as a…
John Kenneth Muir analyzes the issue over the post-apocalyptic destruction, in which he studies the effect on human civilization by asking the viewer, “How many would act in the same fashion; refusing to trust "strangers" until they knew that the risk was passed?” One of the effects Muir mentions throughout the reassessment is the loss of hope for the greater good of a social club. Still, too much hope in society can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and will most likely lead to a catastrophic result.…
Mothers don’t have an easy job. They watch as their children grow up. They watch as their children leave off to college. They watch as their children live as adults. Surely it was a struggle during the time period (1780s’) in which Mrs. Abigail Adams watched her sons become men in all the unfairness life gave. Adams writes to her son, John Quincy, for the purpose of advising him on the journey to France.…
In No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod proves to the reader that it is impossible to talk about the Scottish-Canadian heritage without mentioning tradition, family and loyalty. MacLeod wrote this book about loyalty to family tradition. It is common to talk about these three things when one describes his family or his past in general, but in this book, MacLeod has included every single intricate detail about each one of the three aspects.…
Nationalism is a driving force behind politics and can be used by the state to change the populaces view on a certain subject. Benedict Anderson gives a strong definition of what nation really is and nationalisms historical emergence, which is key to understanding an article written by Yves Frenette that gives us a Canadian context to the concept of nationalism. After these two articles we can look at different articles and statements that were made around Remembrance day, a day for the commemoration of the sacrifices made by the men and women who served Canada during times of war and times of peace. Most recently we can compare the statements of the twenty-third Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau on this Remembrance day. As well as the…
In this essay, I will demonstrate that the Prime Minister is powerful and can cause many potential dangers by analyzing different elements inside and outside of our government over the period of different Prime Ministers throughout the Canadian political history.…
Never dull” (327). Regardless of Scarborough’s inclusion in a metropolitan area, Scarborough to Toronto is like the northern territories to Canada; it exists—but not really. The area is simply a heated topic for discussion by ignorant politicians. But Laurence’s essay reminds me that the importance of one’s hometown should not be defined by the people that have never lived there, but rather by the personal feelings that only someone who has may experience (327).…