Edmontons Urban Villages

Author : Ron Kuban
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644381
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmonton's Urban Villages written by Ron Kuban and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a collection of neighbourhood volunteer organizations come to influence the development of a major Canadian city? Few other North American cities have embraced the community league movement with the vigour of Edmonton. For 87 years, tens of thousands of volunteers from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) have often acted as a counterweight to large private and institutional interests, shaping municipal development by providing a voice and a training ground for grassroots civic participation. In its wake, the EFCL has left a host of sports, cultural, and civic initiatives for the improvement of Edmonton, and an important lesson on how to create community.

Author : Earle H. Waugh
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772123404
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al Rashid Mosque written by Earle H. Waugh and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Rashid Mosque, Canada’s first and one of the earliest in North America, was erected in Edmonton in the depth of the Depression of the 1930s. Over time, the story of this first mosque, which served as a magnet for more Lebanese Muslim immigrants to Edmonton, was woven into the folklore of the local community. —Baha Abu-Laban, Foreword Edmonton’s Al Rashid Mosque has played a key role in Islam’s Canadian development. Founded by Muslims from Lebanon, it has grown into a vibrant community fully integrated into Canada’s cultural mosaic. The mosque continues to be a concrete expression of social good, a symbol of a proud Muslim Canadian identity. Al Rashid Mosque provides a welcome introduction to the ethics and values of homegrown Muslims. The book traces the mosque’s role in education and community leadership and celebrates the numerous contributions of Muslim Canadians in Edmonton and across Canada. Al Rashid Mosque is a timely and important volume of Islamic and Canadian history. "Forty years ago, as a young scholar in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Al Rashid’s Muslims welcomed my queries, tolerated my ignorance, and joyfully opened their homes and their hearts." —Earle H. Waugh Earle H. Waugh has studied Islam in Canada and the Middle East for most of his adult life. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and a senior scholar in the areas of religious studies, health and culture, and Indigenous language maintenance.

Author : Karen L. Wall
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888647808
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Plan written by Karen L. Wall and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants. Read new perspectives on well-known sports stories along with tales of lesser-known games that remained on the margins of most histories for reasons of race, class, and gender. Whether a spectator, supporter, scholar, or fan, readers will be informed and delighted by the research contained in this sport history.

Author : David George Bettison
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888640093
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Affairs in Alberta written by David George Bettison and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1975 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description

Author : Andrew Sancton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080209709X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Governance written by Andrew Sancton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act autonomously, purposefully, and collaboratively in the intergovernmental arena.

Author : Shirley Tillotson
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077483675X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Give and Take written by Shirley Tillotson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising, twentieth-century taxes have made us richer, in political engagement and more. Taxes make the power of the state obvious, and Canadians often resisted that power. But this is not simply a tale of tax rebels. Tillotson argues that Canadians also made real contributions to democracy when they taxed wisely and paid willingly.

Author : Jan Nijman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520778
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the North American Suburbs written by Jan Nijman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.

Author : Patrick Maguire
Publisher : SAEE
ISBN 13 : 0973775548
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choice in Urban School Systems : the Edmonton Experience written by Patrick Maguire and published by SAEE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Chase Merrett
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380521
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Edmonton City Market, 1900-2000 written by Kathryn Chase Merrett and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history. A History of the Edmonton City Market brings a comprehensive study of a long-lived and much-loved institution to life by seamlessly integrating details of the City Market with wider contexts of urban, economic, and cultural studies.

Author : Gilbert A. Stelter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773584862
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Urban Landscape written by Gilbert A. Stelter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1982-09-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.