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开 本: 16开纸 张: 轻型纸包 装: 平装-胶订是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787201122359
2017年恰逢加拿大建国150周年庆之际，谨以《O，Canada！》纪念加拿大建国150周年。《O，Canada！》为全英文版，按时间顺序从1867年建立联邦，到2017年，每年一篇，全面讲述了加拿大的历史、文化、移民等社会问题，通过《O，Canada！》读者可以对加拿大有更深一步的了解。对于英语爱好者，也是不可多得的阅读素材。
This book is written and published for
celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation. For this 150 years
old great country, it has many incredible stories to tell ——
◆ Read about the explorers who first came
looking and the battles that were fought with the natives they met over land.
◆ Learn how the country was settled by the many
immigrants, including the Chinese, who helped to grow it.
◆ Discover little known and interesting facts
about Canada’s culture, sports and symbols.
◆ Find out what Canadians love about their
country and who they consider to be their heroes.……
The easy-to-read and fascinating stories in
this book highlight a special moment from each of the 150 years that Canada has
been a country. It’s quite readable for both native English speakers and ESL
learners all over the world.
1 A Country Is Born (1867)
2 The Maple Leaf
Forever (1868)
3 Turn of the Tide (1869)
4 Where Money Grows on
Trees (1870)
5 Signed, Sealed and
Delivered (1871)
6 A Home Away from Home
(1872)
7 The Mountie Always
Gets His Man (1873)
8 The Better to See You
With (1874)
9 Give Me a Call
Sometime (1875)
10 The Great White North
(1876)
11 Play Ball (1877)
12 To Have and to Hold (1878)
13 Fair Play (1879)
14 Canada Is On Song (1880)
15 Shop till You Drop (1881)
16 A Cotton Picking Good
Idea (1882)
17 Take Your Medicine (1883)
18 Is the Train on Time?
(1884)
19 Fight the Good Fight (1885)
20 Hey there Cowboy (1886)
21 For the Birds (1887)
22 A Borderline Decision
(1888)
23 I Will Vote for That (1889)
24 Canada’s Ship has
Come In (1890)
25 A Slam Dunk (1891)
26 A Bricks and Mortar
Business (1892)
27 With Child (1893)
28 Out in the Cold (1894)
29 That Sounds Like a
Great Idea (1895)
30 There Is Gold in
Those Hills (1896)
31 Search High and Low (1897)
32 To Drink or not to
Drink (1898)
33 A Star Is Born (1899)
34 Selling Canada (1900)
35 A Barrel of Fun (1901)
36 Can You Hear Me Now? (1902)
37 Let’s Go for a Drive (1903)
38 Paddle Your Own Canoe
(1904)
39 A Right of Passage (1905)
40 A Good Read (1906)
41 A Belt of Wheat (1907)
42 Every Book Is a
Friend (1908)
43 That Ice Is Mine (1909)
44 I Promise to do My
Best (1910)
45 Park Yourself Here (1911)
46 Do You Understand? (1912)
47 Zip Her Up (1913)
48 Hollywood of the
North (1914)
49 As I Live and Breathe
(1915)
50 That Took Ages (1916)
51 United We Stand (1917)
52 Cover Your Mouth (1918)
53 Strike Out (1919)
54 I Will School You (1920)
55 Our Ship has Come In (1921)
56 How to Live Like an
Inuit (1922)
57 Down to a Science (1923)
58 Up in the Air (1924)
59 The Light of Night (1925)
60 Seeing Snakes (1926)
61 Work of Art (1927)
……
115 We Give You Our Right
Arm (1981)
116 A Sign of the Times (1982)
117 I am Immune to That (1983)
118 Like a Three Ring
Circus (1984)
119 War and Peace (1985)
120 Boat People (1986)
121 One for the Money (1987)
122 A Woman’s Body Is Her
Own (1988)
123 World Wide Web (1989)
124 Get Along Little
Doggies (1990)
125 The Unhappy, Lucky
Ones (1991).
126 Canary in a Coal Mine
(1992)
127 Bad Blood (1993)
128 We Trade with One
Voice (1994)
129 Just Say No (1995)
130 Sent from My Wireless
(1996)
131 The Human Tsunami (1997)
132 Where there’s Smoke,
there’s Fire (1998)
133 First Nations, First
Territory (1999)
134 Fresh off the Boat (2000)
135 Grounded at Gander (2001)
136 We Can’t Bear It (2002)
137 Keeping the Peace (2003)
138 Midnight Sun (2004)
139 Out of the Closet (2005)
140 Sorry Is Hard to Say (2006)
141 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
(2007
142 Just Like a Human (2008)
143 Canada’s Stonehenge (2009)
144 Seeing Flying Cigars (2010)
145 Will Canada Go Green?
(2011)
146 Watch this Space (2012)
147 A Dead Loss (2013)
148 A Fish Tale (2014)
149 An Old Drink of Water
(2015)
150 Canada has a New
Leader (2016)
Strong, Proud, Free (2017)
North and South America were the last
places in the world where people came to live. By the time the Vikings from
Norway first saw Canada in the year 985, many First Nations people (see 1999),
already called it home. The First Nations had lived in Canada for thousands of
years. They chased the Vikings away and would not let them live in Canada.
It was a very long time before another
explorer stopped at Canada. John Cabot was
exploring the world in a big boat called a
ship. He was looking for new land for the British in 1497. He found Canada, but
he did not stay to live there.
Next year the Portuguese came. They lived
for a time on the East coast of Canada, but they left because they liked South
America better.
Finally, in 1534, Jacques Cartier placed a French
flag near the Saint Lawrence River (see 1890). He said that the country
called Canada today belonged to France.
The French started to trade with the native
people of Canada, called First Nations. French people liked to wear fur hats
and Canada had many animals with warm fur. First
Nations hunters would bring animal skins to
the French and trade them for an axe. The axe made it easier and faster to cut
wood so it was valued by the First Nations. Animal
skins could be sold for a lot of money in
France, so they were valued by the French. It was a good trade. The First
Nations people let the French stay and live near them. In 1608, the French
built Quebec City and some French people made it their new home.
Farther east, in St John’s Newfoundland,
the British had arrived by ship in 1583. British people started to live in
eastern Canada in 1621, but they fought with the French. Both Britain and
France wanted all of Canada. They did not want to share it. Britain started
sending many people to Canada. Soon Britain could win these fights, called
battles because there were more British soldiers than French soldiers. The
French and the British fought many battles.
One big battle was called the Seven Years’
War. This was the first war ever fought in more than one country at one time.
It was like a world war. The British fought the French, the Americans, and the
First Nations in Canada from 1756 —1763. They also had battles in many
countries in Europe, India, and even on the sea. When the British won this
fight, they made the French give North America to them.
Now, Britain owned all of North America.
However, many of the people living in North America were angry at Britain. They
thought Britain did not care about them, so they started a battle. When these
people won the battle, they made the British people go north. The winners
stayed south and called themselves Americans. The British land in the north was
called British North America. One hundred years later, it would become Canada.
On September 6, 1814, in Quebec, and January 11, 1815, in Scotland something
happened that would forever be important to the birth of Canada. On those days,
George-Étienne Cartier was born in Canada and John Alexander Macdonald was born
in Scotland.
John A. Macdonald’s family were English speakers.
They moved to Ontario, Canada, when he was a boy. He became a lawyer and later
a politician in the government. George-Étienne Cartier was French speaking. He
grew up in Quebec, Canada. He also became a lawyer and then a politician. When
both boys were in their 40’s they met in the government and became good
friends.
John and George-Étienne both wanted
everyone in Canada to live together happily and have one government. At that
time, there were many British colonies. These were places in Canada where the
British lived and ruled. Each colony had different governments. Often the
French speakers and English speakers in one colony did not agree. For hundreds
of years, this had caused many battles between them.
John and George-Étienne worked together to
find a way to bring peace. They began to make changes that brought the two
cultures together so they did not fight. John and George-Étienne could see that
one, united country would be better for the economy. One country could share
everything, so everyone would be richer. The people of one country could sell
things to each other and to other countries. They didn’t need to send everything
back to Britain for free. John and George-Étienne also thought that if the French
and English worked together, they could keep the Americans in the south from getting
their land.
The people living in British North America
liked their ideas. Britain did not have enough money to keep control of the
country so Britain agreed. The leaders of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec,
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick came together to make the country called the
Dominion of Canada. On July 1, 1867, they all signed a paper called the British
North America Act. This paper made the Canadian government united and free from
British rule. July 1st is celebrated as Canada Day every year (see 1958).
Such a great new country needed a great new leader. John A. Macdonald agreed to
be that man. In 1867, when Canada became a country, John A. Macdonald became
its first Prime Minister.
Like any new birth, Canada took many more
years to grow. George-Étienne worked hard to bring other parts of Canada
together. He saw Manitoba, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Prince
Edward Island also join Canada before his death. Eventually, by 1999, all 10
provinces in the south of Canada and the three territories in the north had
joined to become one country.
Today, Canada is the second largest country
in the world. It is almost 10 million square kilometers in size. The country of
Canada covers land from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in
the west. From the great lakes in the south to the Arctic Ocean in the north.
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