Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario : The Interwar Years [1 ed.] 9780773576148, 9780773535916

Françoise Noël explores the social context of Canada's most famous family to show how family ritual and communal ev

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Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario : The Interwar Years [1 ed.]
9780773576148, 9780773535916

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visit.

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The community of Aboriginal groups and fur trade society that had initially developed at Porcupine-Iroquois Falls (c. 16

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A compelling survey of Southern society in the antebellum period focuses on daily life in one Virginia county, tracing t

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While Medicare continues to resist political and ideological forces aimed at shrinking the state's role, cost const

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A rich and complex portrait of the agricultural fair, in which rural women’s identities and activities take centre stage

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Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore th

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This book illustrates the personal, social, cultural and political factors which contribute to the acquisition and maint

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This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London’

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This is Ontario's story, a collective biography of her people, a history of her development as a province. Illustra

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In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sangster focuses on key issues that drew wom

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