Author: E.A. Heaman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: society, nineteenth, century, canadian, exhibitions, arts, peace, inglorious
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-03-06
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0802042724
ISBN-13: 9780802042729

The exhibition was one of the great nineteenth-century projects for improving the world. Combining the Victorian virtues of communication, cooperation, and competition, it promised to advertise the choice products of civilization to a receptive public. The Inglorious Arts of Peace is the first comprehensive look at the history of these cultural extravaganzas in Canada.Early in the nineteenth century, provincial governments began to sponsor exhibitions that advertised highly bred livestock and modern techniques of rotation and manuring to farmers. Hundreds of agricultural and industrial exhibit

Author: Elsbeth Heaman
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: history, medicine, studies, health, society, hardco, services, amp, associated, teaching, london, hospital, mcgill, mary, queen, medical
Number of Pages: 519
Published: 2003-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0853239681
ISBN-13: 9780853239680

This book covers the history of St Mary’s from its beginnings as a hospital for the poor and itinerant navvies to its development as a research institution in which both penicillin and typhoid vaccine were discovered. The development of medical education is also a vital concern of this book.

Authors:R.H. Mitchell, H.S. Grütter, L.M. Heaman, B.H. Scott
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: volume, roger, clement, papers, selected, kimberlite, conference, international
Number of Pages: 614
Published: 2005-06-24
List price: $102.14
ISBN-10: 0444517758
ISBN-13: 9780444517753

Volume 1 of this special issue of Lithos, dedicated to Roger Clement, presents papers describing the geology and emplacement of several of the recently discovered kimberlites in northern Canada in which diamond mines are now operating. Other papers are concerned with the petrography, age of emplacement, geochemistry and petrogenesis of kimberlites from Canada and other worldwide localities.