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Owing allegiance: the British community in Verdun, Quebec during the Second World War. During the next to the first World War, Verdun, Quebec (population 67000 in 1941) was abode to an exceptionally high percentage of British-born residents who retained a lusty emotional bond to their birthplace. The city also claimed to lead Canada in the proportion of its population upon active service. Employing previously untapped local sources and municipal archives, this article examines the origin of the city's British community and provides a detailed statistical analysis of Verdun's enlistment record. It argues that, to a large amplitude Verdunites' patriotic wartime response owed plenteous to their continuing sense of being British. This article contributes to Want to read the whole article? You can purchase it here. It's quick and easy. David Bell novel York: Routledge, 2001 A volcano of ideas, inventions, politics, conventions, communities and technologies, cyberspace is a burning topic in academia these days. David... Decor Moulding and replenish of Hauppauge, N.Y., introduces Persona[TM], a family of 19 profiles which features embossing with colors, similar as "steel," "worn steel" and "gold steel" For more inform... by the agency of Thadious M. Davis (Louisiana State University Pres 1996 $17.95)--"I search for to understand how a particular woman of color from a relatively dusky background, and with little formal educatio... The backbiting that chop so deep in the relationship between the active-component Army and the Army National Guard a decade ago reared its unsightly head in the press last month This latest gash... ABSTRACT The high hill Waldo granite (MWG), dated at 371 [+ or -] 2 Ma, is typical of the younger Devonian intrusions of the coastal Maine magmatic province. It is a coarse-grained,... The atmosphere and tone of transatlantic discourse have improved markedly in novel months. Sustaining transatlantic security cooperation will require narrowing lingering European-American differ... 00-00-0000 The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is working to determine the reliability of micro-electromechanical a whole s (MEMS). The... NIGEL WHITELEY Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pres 2002 494 pp; 89 b/w ills. $3995 As anyone who has had anything to say about Reyner Banham will agree, it is impossible not to fall... by means of Daniel Eisenberg Distributed by Canyon Cinema 2325 3rd St Ste 338 San Francisco, California 94107 Berlin music of a Great City, Walter Ruttmann's 1927 film portrait of early twentie... |
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