Crossing The 49th Parallel

Author : Bruno Ramirez
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729586
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the 49th Parallel written by Bruno Ramirez and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hundred years ending in 1930, an estimated 2.8 million Canadians moved south of the 49th Parallel and settled in the United States. The human and technical resources they brought made Canadian immigrants integral to the growth of New England, the Great Lakes region, and the west coast. Crossing the 49th Parallel is the first book to encompass that entire, continent-wide population shift. It brings Canadian migration to the center of both Canadian and U.S. history. Bruno Ramirez researches the contents of previously unused border records to bring to light the wide variety of local contexts and historical circumstances that led Canadian men, women, and children to cross the border and become key actors in the U.S. economy and society. Ramirez goes beyond these statistical data, consulting qualitative sources and case studies to reveal the motives and aspirations of individuals and family groups. The comparative perspective of Crossing the 49th Parallel allows Ramirez to explain the distinctive roles of French- and Anglo-Canadians in the immigrant movement. By shifting the viewpoint from a continental to a transatlantic one, Ramirez also unveils Canada's important role in international migration; it served as a temporary destination for many Europeans who subsequently remigrated to the United States.

Author : Charity Marsh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228004845
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Still Here written by Charity Marsh and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders. Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions, mainstream hegemonies, and the processes of historical formation in the evolution of hip-hop culture. Throughout, the volume foregrounds the generative issues of gender, identity, and power, in particular in relation to the Black diaspora and Indigenous cultures. The contributions of artists in the scene are front and centre in this collection, exposing the distinct inner mechanics of Canadian hip hop from a variety of perspectives. By amplifying rarely heard voices within hip-hop culture, We Still Here argues for its power to disrupt national formations and highlights the people and communities who make hip hop happen.

Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197528716
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Line of Blood and Dirt written by Benjamin Hoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.

Author : Wayde Compton
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551520650
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 49th Parallel Psalm written by Wayde Compton and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of Blacks to Canada, specifically when the first Black settlers-facing an increasingly hostile racist government-left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Author : Gillian Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0773555137
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Between the Borderlines written by Gillian Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into how culture is made, moved, and used across the Canada-US border.

Author : James Laxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Border written by James Laxer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what Canada means to the giant to our south. If good fences make good neighbours, do we have the sort of fence that will allow us to maintain neighbourly relations with the world's only superpower? In The Border, well-known political scientist and journalist James Laxer explores this question by taking the reader on a compelling 5000-mile journey into culture, politics, history, and the future of Canadian sovereignty. Long ignored (or celebrated) as "the world's longest undefended border," the line between us and the US is now a stress point. The attacks on the World Trade Center announced to the world that North America is no longer a quiet neighbourhood and made our relationship with the US one of the most pressing questions facing Canadians. The porousness of the border is sure to be more problematic as the world becomes more troubled. Canadian officials complain of American pornography, drugs, untaxed cigarettes and, especially, guns moving northwards. For their part, the FBI and US Customs Service blame Canada for the infiltration of Chinese gangs smuggling immigrants and, more urgently, third-world terrorist cells based north of the border. Drawing deeply from history and anecdote, Laxer shows that for all our neighbourly good will, the Canada-US border has been contentious since the American War of Independence. In the mid-1800s the Americans tried to seize the west coast up to the 54th parallel. On the other hand, until 1931 the Canadian Army's "Defence Scheme Number One" was to launch a surprise attack on the US with Mexico and Japan as allies. But beyond thefraught politics of the border, Laxer discovers another legacy as well. Travelling the country from Campobello island in the east to Richmond BC in the west all the way up to the Alaska panhandle in the north, Laxer meets people who live within a stone's throw of the foreigners on the other side, and who share with him tales of friendship and rivalry, smuggling and trade that have shaped the character of their communities.

Author : Gillian Roberts
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554589991
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Encounters written by Gillian Roberts and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel. The field of border studies has hitherto neglected the Canada–US border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal and political frameworks. Border studies has long been rooted in the US–Mexico divide; shifting the locus of that discussion north to the 49th parallel, the contributors ask what added complications a site-specific analysis of culture at the Canada–US border can bring to the conversation. In so doing, this collection responds to the demands of Hemispheric American Studies to broaden considerations of the significance of American culture to the Americas as a whole—bringing Canadian Studies into dialogue with the dominantly US-centric critical theory in questions of citizenship, globalization, Indigenous mobilization, hemispheric exchange, and transnationalism.

Author : Llanwoeseth Mardis
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1631355015
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Felesoid and the Incident on the 49th Parallel written by Llanwoeseth Mardis and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series continues in the 2030s, featuring Spartacus, a black cat that becomes part machine after he is micro-chipped. His newly found skills are used to spy for the British secret service and police. Spartacus heads to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Helping him is a troop of SAS so they can capture the top ten leaders of the Taliban. On his return home, Spartacus witnesses his sister’s first day of attending the Army Cadet Force. After he attends several meetings of the ACF with his sister, Spartacus is ordered into his father’s office and is informed that the Canadian governor general has received an intelligence report from a mole in the CIA. His mission is to obtain the details of America’s plans to invade Canada. With the help of the mole, he gains entrance into the Pentagon, where he places the plans on the mole’s laptop to ensure her loyalties are with Canada. His plan is to blackmail the mole by getting her to hand over the plans to a group of Commonwealth spies. Spartacus requests permission to patrol the border of the 49th Parallel until he reaches a special place to witness and video record the Incident on the 49th Parallel. All the member states of the Commonwealth of Nations declared war on the U.S. and President Lincoln asked for an armistice after thirty days. In a special meeting, the USA is reduced to fifteen states.

Author : Bruce Fisher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442254
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borderland written by Bruce Fisher and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Buffalo—so rusty and abandoned, so sadly persistent in its despair, so abused by comedians, yet so close to serene and orderly Canada, and so blessed with an attractively resilient and rebellious spirit that its expatriates cannot wait to return. In essays that are historical and lyrical, objective yet powerfully emotional, Bruce Fisher offers a unique look at the distinct history and culture of Buffalo and the Canadian border region. The place is a bundle of contradictions. Here, old-growth forests lie just down the road from landscapes despoiled by a century of heavy industry. Here, in a region that has been peaceful for almost two hundred years, monuments of ancient design define both sides of the Niagara River as a zone of conflicts one side refuses to forget. Here, in waters that used to ferry immigrants and the wealth of the North American interior, American children train to row against Canadian children in an event named for the monarchy. Here, in a city that struggles to make sense of an economy that no longer needs its labor, and where politicians are despised yet always returned to office, the very notion of sustainability is tested by an endless sequence of schemes for redemption. And here, in this unique border region, notions of justice rooted in family histories of Civil War veterans persist curiously through the politics that helped wreck Buffalo and frighten Toronto into a more attentive rectitude. In the texts of letters found in a village library, in the geology of a streambed that the seasons disrupt, in the bright snow that smoothes and gentles the landscape but terrifies mayors, Fisher finds the universal in the distinctive, crossing borders not just of geography, but of history, culture, and politics.

Author : John J. Bukowczyk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970953
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Permeable Border written by John J. Bukowczyk and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the history of the Great Lakes Basin in relation to its importance as a place of social, economic, and political interaction between the United States and Canada.