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- Canada's prime ministers and the shaping of a national identity / by Blake, Raymond Benjamin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime minsters worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation."--- Subjects: Nationalism; Nationalism; Prime ministers; Prime ministers;
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- Praying to the west : how Muslims shaped the Americas / by Mouallem, Omar,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Civilization, Western; Islam and culture; Islam and culture; Islam; Islam;
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- Planet Canada : how our expats are shaping the future / by Stackhouse, John,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.One of the leading thinkers on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest latent resource is the three million Canadians who don't live here. Educators, entrepreneurs, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all have is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with as diverse human resources as Canada ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when citizens of a country that increasingly finds itself everywhere in the world are asking how they can help. Failing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boasted is getting softer, but we have an unparalleled resource, if we choose to use it. To ensure Canada's place in the world, argues Planet Canada, we need to use the world within Canada.- Subjects: Canadians; Cultural diplomacy;
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- Canada 1919 : a nation shaped by war / by Cook, Tim,1971-editor.; Granatstein, J. L.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War-a war that was, for Canada, completely unexpected in its magnitude. In the midst of relief that the killing had ended, economic and political tensions were fraught as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future. The Canadian Corps had played a significant role in the war and were hailed as the "shock troops" of the British empire. They came home full of both sorrow and pride in their accomplishments, wondering what they would do, and how would they fit in with their families. The military stumbled through massive demobilization. The government struggled to hang on to power, labour seethed, and the threat of Bolshevism emerged. At the same time there were positive changes, and a new Canadian nationalism was forged. This book offers a fresh perspective on the concerns of the time: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; Canada's international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which war shaped Canada-and the ways it did not."--- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918;
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- Shapes in math, science and nature : squares, triangles and circles / by Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.; Slavin, Bill.; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Squares.; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Triangles.; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Circles.;
Circles -- Triangles -- Squares.LSC- Subjects: Shapes; Circle; Triangle; Square; Geometry; Geometry in nature;
- © c2014., Kids Can Press,
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- 100 women who made history : remarkable women who shaped our world / by Caldwell, S. A.(Stella A.); Hibbert, Clare,1970-; Mills, Andrea.;
LSC- Subjects: Women; Women;
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- Winston and the Windsors : How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty. by Morton, Andrew.;
From the world's leading authority on modern celebrity and royalty comes a groundbreaking story of the riveting hot-and-cold relationship between the House of Windsor and Winston Churchill. From the author of 'The Queen' and 'Diana', which changed the way the world looked at the British royal family.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty;
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- Kaffe Fassett's simple shapes, spectacular quilts : 23 original quilt designs / by Fassett, Kaffe.; Lucy, Liza Prior.; Patterson, Debbie.;
LSC- Subjects: Patchwork; Quilting; Patchwork quilts.; Color in textile crafts.; Geometry in art.; Inspiration.;
- © 2010., Stewart, Tabori & Chang,
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- To rule the waves : how the British navy shaped the modern world / by Herman, Arthur,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy; Naval battles; Sea-power; Naval art and science;
- © c2004., HarperCollins,
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- Checkmate in Berlin : the Cold War showdown that shaped the modern world / by Milton, Giles,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War"--- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Cold War.;
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