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Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada's history. They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-adventurers and guided army commanders. They legitimized a politician's dominion and allowed businessmen to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens build communities. "Terra Nostra" celebrates the mapping of Canada, in part by telling the stories of the(...)
Terra Nostra : the story behind Canada's maps, 1550-1950, from the collection of Library and Archives Canada
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Maps have been invaluable throughout Canada's history. They promised fame and fortune to early merchant-adventurers and guided army commanders. They legitimized a politician's dominion and allowed businessmen to stake new claims. And they helped ordinary citizens build communities. "Terra Nostra" celebrates the mapping of Canada, in part by telling the stories of the exceptional individuals who helped to create the maps. Drawn from the cartographic holdings of Library and Archives Canada, it spans four centuries - from the portolan charts of the early explorers to recent aerial images of east coast ice floes. Jeffrey S. Murray is senior archivist at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
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June 2008, Sillery
Architecture in Canada
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If architecture fails, if it is pedestrian and lacks imagination and power, it tells only one story, that of its own making: how it was built, detailed, financed. But a great building, like great literature or poetry or music, can tell the story of the human soul. It can make us see the world in a wholly new way, change it forever. It can awaken our desires, propose(...)
Bold Visions: the architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum
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If architecture fails, if it is pedestrian and lacks imagination and power, it tells only one story, that of its own making: how it was built, detailed, financed. But a great building, like great literature or poetry or music, can tell the story of the human soul. It can make us see the world in a wholly new way, change it forever. It can awaken our desires, propose imaginary trajectories, and say to a child who has seen little or been nowhere, hey, the world can be very different from what you ever imagined.
Architecture in Canada
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The ROM's architecture is a combination of many styles that reflect the times in which the individual buildings were designed, as well as the tastes of the ROM's leaders since the Museum's inception in 1912. Although the approaches vary, the ROM has always strived to create an outstanding institution, and its bold architectural visions over the years embody this goal. The(...)
Bold Visions: the architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum
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The ROM's architecture is a combination of many styles that reflect the times in which the individual buildings were designed, as well as the tastes of the ROM's leaders since the Museum's inception in 1912. Although the approaches vary, the ROM has always strived to create an outstanding institution, and its bold architectural visions over the years embody this goal. The ROM's first building (1914) may appear quaint and relatively modest today, but it was a significant undertaking at the time, an audacious move for a city the size of Toronto to envision a structure comparable to those in London or New York. Daniel Libeskind's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition of 2007 is the most recent expression of this spirit. This same impetus has made the ROM Canada's largest museum of natural history and world cultures, with more than six milion objects, in its collections and more than 1.5 milion visitors annually.
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Landscape design @ canada
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Landscape design @ Canada is one publication within a series dedicated to the promotion of excellence in landscape architecture in various countries throughout the world. Projects in this publication are representative of those created throughout Canada, within a wide range of sectors and many different scales. Landscape Design @ Canada focuses primarily on projects(...)
Landscape design @ canada
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Landscape design @ Canada is one publication within a series dedicated to the promotion of excellence in landscape architecture in various countries throughout the world. Projects in this publication are representative of those created throughout Canada, within a wide range of sectors and many different scales. Landscape Design @ Canada focuses primarily on projects geared toward human use and enjoyment. The selected projects range from large planning initiatives to small urban gardens.
Architecture in Canada
Québec 1850-1950
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During that century Quebec became a province, rose to prominence in Canada, settled the wilderness, and developed a unique cultural and linguistic identity. It is fortunate that so many high-quality photographs, some taken by celebrated photographers such as William Notman, have survived to give us a glimpse into life over the changing decades.
Québec 1850-1950
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During that century Quebec became a province, rose to prominence in Canada, settled the wilderness, and developed a unique cultural and linguistic identity. It is fortunate that so many high-quality photographs, some taken by celebrated photographers such as William Notman, have survived to give us a glimpse into life over the changing decades.
Architecture in Canada
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In the 1850s, Grand Trunk Railway, later Canadian National, was one of New England�s and Canada�s most important and heavily travelled railway lines. It linked Canada�s metropolis, Montreal � through Vermont and New Hampshire � with the nearest ice-free port at Portland, Maine. Despite constant upgrading, accidents did occur, some of them catastrophic. With(...)
Trouble on the tracks : Grand Trunk Railway of New England tragedies, accidents that occured on Canadian National Railways' Montreal to Portland line
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In the 1850s, Grand Trunk Railway, later Canadian National, was one of New England�s and Canada�s most important and heavily travelled railway lines. It linked Canada�s metropolis, Montreal � through Vermont and New Hampshire � with the nearest ice-free port at Portland, Maine. Despite constant upgrading, accidents did occur, some of them catastrophic. With details about four dozen such tragedies, you�ll learn what happened when people, vehicles, or nature decided to duel with a fully-loaded train. Discover the circumstances when a cattle train hit a mudslide� a passenger train toppled over the bank... two locomotives met in heavy fog that made it impossible to see� two trains, one fully-loaded with immigrants, came towards each other on ONE track!� the West Paris Bridge collapsed� two double-headed freight trains collided head-on � a train hit fuel tanker truck, with ensuing explosion and fire� a derailment toppled a chlorine tank car off a bridge onto the highway below. 196 pages, over 200 photographs, (5 colour), 16 maps and diagrams to show where the accidents occurred.
Architecture in Canada
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In the 1960s, the city of Halifax demolished the black community of Africville, ostensibly as part of a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance'. In the 1980s, the city created a park on the empty site, shich has since become a place of protest and commemoration for black citizens. As yet the city has not issued a formal apology to Africville residents and has paid(...)
Razing africville: a geography of racism
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In the 1960s, the city of Halifax demolished the black community of Africville, ostensibly as part of a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance'. In the 1980s, the city created a park on the empty site, shich has since become a place of protest and commemoration for black citizens. As yet the city has not issued a formal apology to Africville residents and has paid no further compensation. This book examines the history of the eviction of a community from its space, examining accounts from a variety of sources: urban planning texts, city council documents, news media, and academic reports.
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Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2008, Winnipeg
Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and physical landscape, and its power to shape identity. This volume includes poetry and lyrics by John K. Samson, new fiction by Guy Maddin, creative meditations by Jeanne Randolph and Marvin Francis, and essays by Sigrid Dahle, Molly Johnson and Richard Milgrom, Claudine Majzels, and Dempsey and Millan, ranging in topics from the benefits of zero growth to the Aboriginal urban experience. Artworks of KC Adams, Keith Berens, Simon Hughes' Bonnie Marin, Diana Thorneycroft and many others.
Architecture in Canada
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Exhibiting architects : Peter Cardew; Barry Vance Down; Arthur Charles Erickson; Helliwell + Smith Blue Sky Architecte Inc.
The poetics of West Coast modernism in West Vancouver : three exhibitions on architecture
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Exhibiting architects : Peter Cardew; Barry Vance Down; Arthur Charles Erickson; Helliwell + Smith Blue Sky Architecte Inc.
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Character and controversy : the Mendel art gallery and modernist architecture in Saskatchewan
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" Character and controversy " highlights the architectural heritage of Saskatchewan while emphasizing the crucial role that modernist architecture, and the Mendel building in particular, has had on visual culture.
Character and controversy : the Mendel art gallery and modernist architecture in Saskatchewan
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" Character and controversy " highlights the architectural heritage of Saskatchewan while emphasizing the crucial role that modernist architecture, and the Mendel building in particular, has had on visual culture.
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