Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song

Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song
Title Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song PDF eBook
Author Lauchie MacLellan
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 592
Release 2001-02-21
Genre Music
ISBN 0773568514

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Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and references, as well as photos and maps. In an era of growing appreciation of Celtic cultures, Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song makes an important Gaelic tradition available to the general reader. The materials also serve as a unique, adaptable resource for those with more specialized research or teaching interests in ethnology/folklore, Canadian studies, Gaelic language, ethnomusicology, Celtic studies, anthropology, and social history.

Exiles and Islanders

Exiles and Islanders
Title Exiles and Islanders PDF eBook
Author Brendan O'Grady
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 340
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780773527683

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The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil

Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
Title Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Margolis
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 317
Release 2011
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0773538127

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"How Montreal's Yiddish community ensured its lasting cultural importance and influence."--WorldCat.

Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities

Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities
Title Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 258
Release 2007
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 077353265X

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In the fall of 1831, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family. As Elizabeth Jane Errington illustrates, the nineteenth-century world of emigration was hazardous. Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities gives voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerous world of emigration between 1815 and 1845. Using "information wanted" notices that appeared in colonial newspapers as well as emigrants' own accounts, Errington illustrates that emigration was a family affair. Individuals made their decisions within a matrix of kin and community - their experiences shaped by their identities as husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings and cousins. The Atlantic crossing divided families, but it was also the means of reuniting kin and rebuilding old communities. Emigration created its own unique world - a world whose inhabitants remained well aware of the transatlantic community that provided them with a continuing sense of identity, home, and family.

Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America

Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America
Title Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America PDF eBook
Author Victoria M. Esses
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 338
Release 2017-05-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0773549463

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Human migration has reached an unprecedented level, and the numbers are expected to continue growing into the foreseeable future. Host societies and migrants face challenges in ensuring that the benefits of migration accrue to both parties, and that economic and socio-cultural costs are minimized. An insightful comparative examination of the policies and practices that manage and support immigrants, Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America identifies and addresses issues that arose in the early years of the twenty-first century and considers what to expect in the years ahead. The volume begins with an overview of immigration policies and practices in the United States and Canada, then moves to an investigation of the economic and socio-cultural aspects, and concludes with a dialogue on precarious migration. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the editors include research from the areas of psychology, political science, economics, sociology, and public policy. Underscoring the complicated nature of immigration, this collection aims to foster further discussion and inspire future research in the United States and Canada.

Building Nations from Diversity

Building Nations from Diversity
Title Building Nations from Diversity PDF eBook
Author Garth Stevenson
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 335
Release 2014-07-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0773583211

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Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. Garth Stevenson examines the origins of Canada and the United States and their past experiences with incorporating selected immigrant groups, particularly Irish, Chinese, and Jews. Establishing the foundational ways in which they placed new groups within their societies, Stevenson then outlines how the US and Canadian systems developed immigration policy and handled difference, detailing their treatment of "enemy aliens" during both world wars, their experience with minority languages, and recent Islamophobia. He also studies the introduction of multiculturalism into the lexicon and policy of the two countries and presents a nuanced analysis of how its meaning is understood differently on opposite sides of the border. An accessible and illuminating work, Building Nations from Diversity highlights the substantial differences between the US and Canada but ultimately concludes that they are more similar than most realize and are probably becoming more alike.

Witness to Loss

Witness to Loss
Title Witness to Loss PDF eBook
Author Jordan Stanger-Ross
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages
Release 2017-10-18
Genre History
ISBN 0773551956

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When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community. In Witness to Loss Kimura’s previously unknown memoir – written in the last years of his life – is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions. Diverse reflections of leading historians, sociologists, and a community activist and educator who lived through this history give context to the memoir, inviting readers to grapple with a rich and contentious past. More complex than just hero or villain, oppressor or victim, Kimura raises important questions about the meaning of resistance and collaboration and the constraints faced by an entire generation. Illuminating the difficult, even impossible, circumstances that confronted the victims of racist state action in the mid-twentieth century, Witness to Loss reminds us that the challenge of understanding is greater than that of judgment.