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In 1802, the Lower Canada legislative library was founded. All books it contained were subsequently moved to the Canadian parliament in Montreal when the two Canadas, Lower and Upper, were united. On April 25, 1849 the Canadian parliament was burned along with thousands of French Canadian books and a few hundred English books.
Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. [3] [4] Beauty is usually categorized as an aesthetic property besides other properties, like grace, elegance or the sublime.
Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. [149] In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story". [ 150 ]
"Sugar Making in Montreal" by Cornelius Krieghoff (October 1852), part of the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at Library and Archives Canada.. Canadiana is a term used to describe things (e.g., books, historical documents, works of art, music and artifacts), ideas, or activities that concern or are distinctive of Canada, its peoples, and/or its culture, especially works of literature ...
Canada Book Day is a yearly event celebrated in Canada on April 23 to promote reading and books during Canada Book Week. Canada Book Week takes place on the week of April 23. Canada Book Week takes place on the week of April 23.
The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the ASPP. The Canada Prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Books about Canada by province or territory (14 C) B. ... The Day the World Came to Town; E.
M. Carrie Mac; Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald; Hugh MacDonald (poet) Marianne Macdonald; Claire Mackay; Kyo Maclear; Maestro Fresh Wes; Henriette Major; Margaret Manuel