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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947-     Subjects     Scots -- Canada -- History.     Scottish Canadians -- History.     Irish Canadians -- History.     Civilization, Celtic -- History.     Canada -- Civilization -- Scottish influences.     Canada -- Civilization -- Irish influences.     Canada -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947-       by title:      Celtic lightning : h...       by call number:      971.004916 M146c     Search the Web     McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947-     Scots -- Canada -- History.     Scottish Canadians -- History.     Irish Canadians -- History.     Civilization, Celtic -- History.     Canada -- Civilization -- Scottish influences.     Canada -- Civilization -- Irish influences.     Canada -- History.       MARC Display

Celtic lightning : how the Scots and the Irish created a Canadian nation / Ken McGoogan. by McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947- Patrick Crean Editions, 2015. Call #: 971.004916 M146c Subjects Scots -- Canada -- History.   Scottish Canadians -- History.   Irish Canadians -- History.   Civilization, Celtic -- History.   Canada -- Civilization -- Scottish influences.   Canada -- Civilization -- Irish influences.   Canada -- History. ISBN:  9781443425506 (hc.) Description:  380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "More than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible. McGoogan writes that, to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation. McGoogan highlights five of the values they imported as foundational: independence, audacity, democracy, pluralism and perseverance. He shows that these values are thriving in contemporary Canada, and traces their evolution through the lives of thirty prominent individuals -- heroes, rebels, poets, inventors, pirate queens -- who played formative roles in the histories of Scotland and Ireland. Two charged traditions came together and gave rise to a Canadian nation. That is when Celtic lightning struck"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 971.004916 M146c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.004916 M146c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.004916 M146c Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 971.004916 M146c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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