Archives

An archive is an accumulation of historical records – in any media – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written …

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Publications

DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

erstock (modified by Laura Boyle) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Born


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

actual events is purely coincidental. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Invisible


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Resistant


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Reversibility–-politics


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French

Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …

Catalogage avant publication de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Titre : Regards sur l'âme en Nouvelle-France Hospitalières de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal et les Archives des Jésuites au Canada pour leur soutien. La des Archives romaines de la Compagnie de Jésus comme l’une des richesses cachées de ces archives, Lamalle correspondance conservée jusqu’à aujourd’hui dans les archives de ses descendants (dont Jean-Marie de Bourgoing


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: An accidental Photographer, Henry Peters. PA-029808, Library and Archives Canada. 38 1.2 Nahjus Athletic Club girls practice practice, 1920s. Photographer unknown. Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library ca. 1896. AM54-S4, Sp-P16, City of Vancouver Archives. 117 4.2 Newspaper boy for the Vancouver Province Jack Lindsay. CVA 1184-862, City of Vancouver Archives. 123 4.3 Man and woman doing maintenance on


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: The poetics translators who worked to assemble it from Pessoa’s archives. Four different translations (by Richard Zenith cautions, “we should not be afraid to look at so many archives of mis- steps. Taking a first step does not amount


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Friendless SabonContents Figures and Table vii Acknowledgements ix Archives and Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3 1 Criminals Nugent Archive held by Liverpool Hope University, Archives & Special Collections. 4 0.2 lhu: Groups of children Nugent Archive held by Liverpool Hope University, Archives & Special Collections. 22 1.1 Illustration entitled Nugent Archive held by Liverpool Hope University, Archives & Special Collections. 60 1.2 Illustration of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

which peoples of the world now gather. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Early National Archives, the National Maritime Museum, the British Library, the London Metropolitan Archives, the organizing the materials that I gathered from the archives. I wish to thank Madeleine Peckham Shakotko, my story wrong. Frustratingly, institutional archives do not shed much direct light on the practical


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

Cover image: Getty Images / Ken Faught Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Tiga’s


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