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Discusses factors conducive to the growth of BC socialist movement in the early 20th century including British Fabianism, left-wing unions, political and economic tensions between Eastern and Western Canada, and Vancouver's influence as an industrial and ideological hub. Chronicles political developments and labour activity with particular reference to newspaper accounts.
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A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s.A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis. -- Publishers's description; republished 2007, University of Ottawa Press, edited and with an introduction by Colin Hill.
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In continuation of the series of articles devoted to workers* education in different countries, the following survey deals with the movement in Canada. After a brief explanation of the natural and social environment in which the Canadian institutions have grown up, Dr. Eastman, who was himself a pioneer in workers'' education in western Canada, describes the origin and development of the various schemes and the use which is being made of modern facilities such as the radio, and emphasises the need for continuous educational effort in order to enable the workers to keep pace with the rapid changes characteristic of the present age. --Introduction
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Includes chapters on production, economic insecurity and other problems of labor.
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Today every citizen secures some minimum of education; and the majority of parents regard the schooling of their children as a matter to be taken for granted. The school leaving age, of course, varies with the standards of the community and its laws. But all public school students, particularly of adolescent age, must sooner or later consider this academic work partly as the training for some specific occupation, career, or job. The important question before the community today, then, is a classification of the relationships between the educations we give and the vocations we seek. Such a problem involves an understanding of the primary school system and its adequacy; the relation of elementary to secondary and higher types of education; the facilities for technical and commercial training, the demands of current and future industry, and the present methods (and lack of them) by which young persons pass from school to employment.
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The pages of this "historical thesis" have been developed with the realization that many teachers, and others interested in the professional activities of teachers, would like to have made available a compilation of material concerning Canadian teachers' organizations. The facts presented deal with the Canadian Teachers' Federation, and provincíal organizations affiliated with the Dominion body; and while not as complete as could be desired they do give a panoramic picture from West to East of the twelve provincial organizations united into a co-operative whole by the Canadian Teachers' Federation. Canadian teachers' organizations have had some share in the development of Canadian educational systems and methods. The recognition by two of our provincial governments of the principle of exclusive membership in statutory professional teachers' organizations will doubtless enable teachers and educational specialists to use their influence more effectively. --Author's preface
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The survival of the French Canadians as a distinct ethnic group in the midst of a much larger and more pervasive English-speaking society is, in many ways, usique in the history of race and culture contact. Numbering some 60,000 at the time of the British conquest of Canada in 1163, the French, by virtue of a high rate of natural increase, have grown to almost 3,000,000 in this country. The traditions and customs peculiar to French Canada center around the most cherished elements of its culture: the French language and the Catholic religion. These, in contrast to English Protestantism, are the main distinguishing factors between the two major ethnic groups in the Province of Quebec. Essentialy local and personal, and wedded to the soil, the traditional French Canadian culture, while protected by constitutional guarantees, developed and expanded in a state of comparative isolation. During the last few decades, however, secular conditions essential to the maintenance of cultural separateness have been disappearing steadily. Economic expansion, spreading from technically more advanced societies to undeveloped regions, has been the universal agent of culture contact and concentration of population in large urban centres....
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"Traces the position of the working class and the development of unionism. The author was a member of the Communist Party of Canada."-- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 192.
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