Language Arts & Disciplines General
Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada
Teacher's Resource
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2006
- Category
- General
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Spiral bound
- ISBN
- 9780195421712
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $282.44
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780195421699
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $147.44
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Description
This new resource from Oxford University Press introduces students to the development of Canada through the varied and rich perspectives of the Aboriginal, British, Francophone, and other groups. It also introduces students, in language they will understand, to active and responsible citizenship at the local, provincial, national and global levels. Components include Student Text, CD-ROM, Teacher's Resource, and Website.
About the authors
Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including five for Arsenal Pulp Press: The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture , National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History, LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award), Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. His other books include A Road for Canada, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade, Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940, The Great Chase: A History of World Whaling, New Beginnings: A Social History of Canada, and the popular Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine, and was shortlisted for Canada's History Pierre Berton Award in 2010. Daniel lives in North Vancouver, BC.
Angus Scully is a writer, editor, historian, and educator. He is the author or co-author of fifteen Canadian history textbooks for elementary and high school, including Canada Today, now in its fourth edition with more than 100,000 copies sold. He is the current editor of the newsletter of the Vancouver Island Military Museum and also sits on the board of directors.
Other titles by
Becoming Vancouver
A History
Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver
Closing Time
Prohibition, Rum-Runners, and Border Wars
Selling Canada
Immigrants, soldiers, tourists, and the building of our nation
Trucking in British Columbia
An Illustrated History
A Road for Canada
The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway
Who Killed Janet Smith?
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Selling Canada
Three propaganda campaigns that shaped the nation
Seeing Reds
The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
