Sandford Fleming Award December 9, 2005
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The Sandford Fleming Award was established in 1999 in honour of Sir Sandford Fleming, 1827 – 1915, Canada’s formost railway surveyor and railway engineer of the 19th century. (more…)
La normalisation au XIX siècle December 9, 2005
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The relationship between standards and technology, the fruit of invention and innovation is tightly coupled. Technical standards, in all their forms public and private, are the means to codify technology for a segment of society. Invention and innovation are also closely linked to the progress of society. Because of these connections, the waves of progress, technology and standards are related.
Colonisation des Amériques December 9, 2005
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Au début du XVIIe siècle les colonies de la côte est (13 qui deviendront les États-Unis), des provinces maritimes du Canada et des petites îles des antilles comme la Jamaïque et la Barbade s’implantèrent avec succès. L’invasion des colonies espagnoles d’Amérique du Sud fut bloqué par l’échec de la prise de Cartagène.Cette expansion dans les Amériques certains réfèrent comme la fin du premier empire britannique, la seconde ayant lieu en Asie et en Afrique. (more…)
Victorian Political History December 9, 2005
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With the end, in 1815, of the Napoleonic Wars, the last of the great imperial wars which had dominated the eighteenth century, Britain found itself in an extraordinarily powerful position, though a complicated one. It acquired Dutch South Africa, for example, but found its interests threatened in India by the southern and eastern expansion of the Russians. (The protection of India from the Russians, both by land and by sea, would be a major concern of Victorian foreign policy).
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