Author: timedictionary

CULTURE: CINEMA Severe censorship and US dominance, still persisting, in distribution and theaters conditioned local cinema in the first decades. In 1939, with the creation of the Office National du Film, the state set out to “introduce Canada to Canadians” through educational and didactic films. Paradoxically, the first management positions were entrusted to two foreigners: […]

CULTURE: MUSIC Canadian music can be divided into three strands: the indigenous one (of Indians and Eskimos), that of European immigrants, and finally the more recent one of cultured music. Little is known of the music of the Indians; On the other hand, there is ample documentation concerning the Eskimos which makes it possible to […]

With the colonization of the country, European architectural forms were imported into Canada, but some local characteristics soon developed within this import culture, such as country houses and churches with steeply sloping roofs. In the English period (1763-1867) both the Regency style and the North American Georgian style were established, while in the second half […]

According to businesscarriers, Canadian literature of French expression only developed in the nineteenth century. For almost a century after the cession of New France to the English (1763), literary production was almost non-existent, as all the energies were devoted to the preservation of the rights of the French-speaking population. The documents of that period have […]

Anglo-Canadian literature begins with travel writings by two Englishmen and precisely with Account of a Journey from the Hudson Bay to the North-West (1795; Narration of a journey from Hudson Bay to the North-West) by Samuel Hearne and with Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America (1801; Journeys from Montreal across the continent […]