Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. A group wrote me to regret that our community, Chemainus, now becoming known world wide as the Little Town That Did did not receive its own entry. No place haunted me so much as Waterloo, Ontario, enraged at being lumped in the encyclopedia as Kitchener-Waterloo (following Statistics Canada). Posing for the Ottawa Citizen with the single, print edition in 1999. It was clear that we had accomplished that. A new Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by Toye, was published in 1983. ". The fact that we refereed the articles with three and often more readers encouraged academics to write for us as they got credit in their annual evaluations. Green wrote concisely that It is also abduction to take away a child under 14 years of age with intent to deprive a parent or other lawful guardian of possession of that child, or with the intent to steal anything on or about the person of such a child. flag of Canada Audio File: Anthem of Canada ( see article) See all media Head Of Government: Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau Capital: Ottawa Population: (2023 est.) My apologetic letters seemed to many an admission that the encyclopedia was not all it was cracked up to be in the way of authority. We were also able to integrate the Gage Canadian Dictionary with the text of the encyclopedia, along with some 3000 pictures, maps, drawings and videos. Art. We were not aided in the editorial process as we would be today by computers or the Internet. Because there was less immediate demand for the second edition, many of the independent bookstores became annoyed at Hurtig for giving discounts to the chains. Most of these agreements describe e Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kanienkeh:ka (Mohawk) elder, advocate for women and children, human rights activist (born 4 October 1911 on the Kahnaw:ke rese Cree code talkers were an elite unit tasked with developing a coded system based on the Cree language for disguising military intelligence. I had to fight with him over buying dictionaries or sending editors to the learned society meetings to meet consultants. Hurtig was a small, regional publisher who could not afford to keep a large editorial staff together for another five or ten years. [7] Later that year, the Historica Foundation made a full version of The Canadian Encyclopedia available online. [5][8], A revised and expanded edition of TCE was released in 1988 (ISBN0-88830-326-2), selling out just as the first. "[12], Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 16:55, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "James Marsh, Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia, Retires | Historica Canada", "Brief History of The Canadian Encyclopedia James H Marsh", "Canadian Encyclopedia gets it right the second time around on CD-ROM", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Canadian_Encyclopedia&oldid=1140956833, an updated World Edition with a new interactive quiz called, a new Student Edition with the updated and revised text of the, a Deluxe version, which included all the material on World and 5 additional disks, This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, at 16:55. Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Cree chief (born circa 1842 in central SK; died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, AB). Prior to joining TCE, she worked This has been the case even as the Encyclopedia has made the transition from print to CD-ROM, to its present online format. Martels The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; The I was able, however, to make sure that the encyclopedia avoided two influences that would have tarnished its credibility. A former history teacher and curriculum specialist, she is especially interested in untold stories. I compiled a master list of about 125 subjects with the help of the Canadian List of Subject Headings used by the National Library of Canada to categorize their collections and with the help of professors in the School of Library Science at the University of Alberta. Any encyclopedia is an intellectual reflection of its creators. I am left with the sense, he wrote, that a vast and variegated land has met its match in print. James Reany stretched for a metaphor in Saturday Night comparing TCE to Anne of Green Gables and Alouette, in a very exciting way, a new communications satellite. With special music to my ears John Hutcheson wrote in the Canadian Forum Diderots Encyclopdie put the ideas of the Enlightenment on the map. Rather than purchasing the books from the publisher at a given discount and reselling them at a suggested price, booksellers were paid a fixed commission of $20 for each set sold. subject editor at The Canadian Encyclopedia. The troublesome area of the Social Sciences saw several changes in senior editor until Patricia Finlay arrived from Ottawa to see it through. Hurtig Publishers was sold to McClelland & Stewart in 1991. (The encyclopedia was produced on time and under budget. I did not have a graduate degree like many of the other candidates but I had pretty much spent my whole life learning, reading and studying. My very first visit when I settled in my office at Ring House 4 was from a group called Technocracy, not only to get themselves represented but to help me to organize the whole encyclopedia and to predict the future. Rezensionen werden nicht berprft, Google sucht jedoch gezielt nach geflschten Inhalten und entfernt diese, Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book Verdict. Editor of the Oxford english Dictionary James Murray. Perhaps most deficient in Canadiana was the decision not to include biographies of living Canadians born before 1910. Nevertheless, its enduring success is particularly due to several people and institutions, including: its publisher, Mel Hurtig; the generosity and commitment of Avie Bennett; the editorial leadership of James Marsh until his March 2013 retirement (he is now editor emeritus); the Alberta government of Peter Lougheed, which provided financial backing for the first edition; and the present support of the federal Canadian Heritage department, now led by Minister Shelley Glover. I did hire two senior editors locally, Adriana Davies for the sciences and Diana Selsor for the arts, and brought in two from Toronto, notably James Ogilvy, who brought valuable experience from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. It was during this process that I completely changed the conception of The Canadian Encyclopedia from the one originally outlined by Wolfe, Owen and Hurtig. [5] Encoded in a markup language precursor of HTML, this edition would be the first encyclopedia in the world to use a computer to help compile, typeset, design, and print it. The move back into print provided a great opportunity for a thorough edit and verification, long overdue, but the volume was not a commercial success. This situation would have been impossible if we had stayed with the original plan for a one-volume encyclopedia. The first disk that we produced was understandably flawed as the developers struggled with the complexities of the new medium. The paradigm is unfortunately shifting towards that of television whereby free content is accompanied by advertising. The purpose was to show the diversity of the contents with a representative array of Canadian personalities and symbols. The process was extremely valuable as we found invariably that young readers were very specific and concrete in their comments, often going straight to the heart of the matter. Churcher, in South Africa and he responded that coyotes seldom hunt in packs and usually take prey much smaller than themselves (sheep are larger! From my experience dealing with the indecision and politics of a board of academics at Carleton University I determined that I must keep total editorial control of the encyclopedia if it was to be produced in less than five years. Canada - Wikipedia (Hurtig eventually made a unique arrangement with the booksellers. I knew that Stank had to change and expand the treatment of Quebec in the encyclopedia to make it more palatable to his audience and I approved most of the changes. A Second Chance: Kudos and Critiques Careless, Thomas Symons, Rose Sheinan, Pierre Maranda and Norman Ward to the advisory board, which gave the project important early prestige and impetus. Chains such as Coles refused to take part.) No one set of books could possibly fulfill the many demands made of these exalted works. Editorial Challenges After a bizarre sidestep in which M&S produced a floppy disk version of the text on 21(!) Versions of the CD-ROM grew like topsy as M&S tried to solve a market dominated by Microsoft. Hiring the Editor in Chief [These italicized words and the following were omitted in Hurtigs version to McGuire.] We did our very best to find sensible compromises in contentious entries such as Abortion and Federalism without bleeding the work of informed debate. Also in 1999, Avie Bennett, the Chair of McClelland & Stewart, transferred the ownership of the encyclopedia to the Historica Foundation. The search mechanisms on these electronic versions provide almost instant access to their huge storehouses of information. I hope that you will not consider the comments in this letter to detract in any way from that well deserved sense of achievement, began J. modern culture. He congratulated me and enquired just who I was to have created this great work when he had never heard of me. Once the encyclopedia proved to be a critical as well as commercial success, some of the editors and contributors felt slighted for lack of recognitionit was inevitable that most of the credit would go to Hurtig as the projects originatorbut in the long run most of the people involved came to see their work on the encyclopedia as a highlight of their lives and to feel a part of a great community effort. I accepted that somehow the alphabet and a list of subjects would provide all the organization we would need. So that we could meet alone, Bohne called me late in the evening and asked me to meet him at the Macdonald Hotel. We were competing with the billion-dollar software and gaming industries. A Nostalgic Gesture and the Future. The negative aura around the marketing and sales of the second edition led to a fatal decision by Hurtig to try to market the Junior Encyclopedia by direct mail. It might have been the last great example of that age-old method. Jim knows perfectly well what he is doing and he will produce a fine encyclopedia, if he is left alone to do so. She obtained a post-graduate certificate in Museum Management and Curatorship from Fleming College. This discontent and a violent shouting match that he had with one of the senior editors leaked back to Hurtig (not through me) who wisely decided to hire Harold Bohne, the head of University of Toronto Press, to make an independent evaluation of the crisis. Despite its bulk, it seemed somehow smaller and less imposing than the multi-volume sets and it was colourless without its illustrations. More likely, the world was growing used to finding its information in a completely new way. Although I had determined from the very first that the encyclopedia would reflect the highest scholarly standardsevery article would be vetted by outside readers and thoroughly verified by internal researcherswe could not forget that we wanted the encyclopedia to reach the widest possible audience or that for Hurtig it was a commercial publication that had to sell over 100,000 copies to make a profit. Some things would change very little. More comprehensive was The Encyclopedia of Canada (6 vols, Toronto, 1935-37), edited by W.S. When I later saw it in our files it read (in large letters) Editor in chief $35,000 starting salary. The main qualification was that the candidate must be a generalist with a lengthy background of working in Canadian topics, and have excellent academic and other connections across Canada. The ad promised that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the very best person. (The first thing that was said to me at the University of Alberta, by a history professor, was so you are the one who got the $35,000 job!). The interest is in the specifics, not in the abstract, though we covered that too. He is interested in Premier Peter Lougheed and I travelled to Ottawa to present official copies to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in his office and to Governor General Jeanne Sauv at a dinner party on the outside grounds of Rideau Hall. Home | The Canadian Encyclopedia The encyclopedia was sold to the Grolier Society, an American publisher, and provided the core of Encyclopedia Canadiana (10 vols, Toronto, 1957), edited by John ROBBINS. Various efforts were made in ancient times to encompass all knowledge in a single work. Jessica Poulin is the bilingual subject editor for The Canadian Encyclopedia. Those subject lists were critical for organization but they soon took on lives of their own. and law editor. Those were the days when some of the most intense relationships were between perplexed and frustrated purchasers of the CD-ROM and our fulltime support staff. Multimedia is augmented through acquisition and partnerships with Macleans magazine and The Canadian Press. I had never foreseen that one of my greatest challenges would be managing the conflicts among the editorial staff. James Marsh was editor in chief for both these works. Reviewers naturally followed their own interests. magazines and worked as a researcher and story producer for several documentary series broadcast on History Television, TSN and CBC. In, Wilson-Smith, Anthony. Other reference works went through the nightmare of stripping codes from Microsoft Word.). One distraught author arrived on our front steps explaining that he had lost his research in a house fire. Some came on time; most did not. Hurtig approached the Alberta government with the idea of supporting the encyclopedia as Albertas gift to Canada. It was a novel idea and caught the attention of Premier Peter Lougheed, who despite his conflicts with the federal government over energy policy considered himself no less a Canadian nationalist than Hurtig. I never had a complaint after the process got rolling in the second year from any contributor and received many compliments about how well treated they all felt. I resolved not to hold another meeting of the board but to meet and speak to the members in person whenever possible. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Editor in Chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia, Photography and Music Enthusiast. The Internet had arrived. International Documentary Film Festival and the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival. [2], TCE claims to be "non-partisan and apolitical." It was clearly a daunting task and there is very little written about it. On the scholarly side a magnificent accomplishment, wrote Jack Granatstein, who also noted that it was easy to read (caveat that Marsh was too involved in the writing). [2], On March 31, 2013, Marsh stepped down as editor-in-chief of TCE in retirement. We welcome your thoughts, ideas and contributions. To make him look good, would I help him by pointing out in advance some errors? Available for free online in both English and French, The Canadian Encyclopedia includes more than 19,500 articles in both languages[1][2] on numerous subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports and science. However, a bilingual national edition produced by, for and about the people of a single country, charting its events, culture, history and landscape, remains rare. Stbere im grten eBookstore der Welt und lies noch heute im Web, auf deinem Tablet, Telefon oder E-Reader. The site also offers a new learning centre for teachers and parents that contains classroom resources, quizzes and themed study guides. . Encyclopedias have a long, illustrious history, none as influential or renowned as Diderots Encyclopdie. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Historica Canada, he leads the organization, oversees all operations and, in collaboration with the Board, provides strategic vision. Brief History of The Canadian Encyclopedia, Production and Marketing of The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Canadian Encyclopedia James H Marsh. Learning from Others but remains committed to finding stories about Canadian people, places and things. We were ably supported by McGuire and the rest of the staff as demands for space, supplies, phone lines, desks, bookcases and resources continued to grow. Whenever possible I tried to provide consistent numbers from census data that could be used for comparison. Note: This is a personal memoir drawn from my own experience and recollections, as well as from the Encyclopedia archives now held at the University of Alberta Archive. By comparing how Canadiana saw the world with how we viewed our own time, a structure began to emerge. Having won over Hurtig to publish three illustrated volumes, our workload became even greater. Although we generated much greater interest in the press than we had enjoyed in the CD-ROM years and I undertook yet another cross-country press tour, we were never able to recreate the marketing fervour of the mid-1980s. The first modern encyclopedia, with broad coverage and elaborate cross-referencing, was the Cyclopaedia (London, 1728) edited by Ephraim Chambers. I had major reservations about how Frank McGuire, the general manager hired by Hurtig from the provincial government, and I were going to work out our roles, and had an awkward interview with him before having dinner with Hurtig and several of his friends at his golf club, including Bill Thorsell and Don Newman. I learned very little of how Robbins organized his encyclopedia (it was in fact copied from Groliers) but I noted his frustration with the editorial interference of Groliers head office in New York. About | The Canadian Encyclopedia The pages were made the old-fashion way as I sat with book designer David Shaw in his Toronto office for days as he waxed and cut the repro proofs and sized and placed the illustrations. I could not conceive of a Canadian encyclopedia without articles on Ukrainians, Ice Hockey, Glace Bay, Maple, Beaver or Nickel. I knew that even with five senior editors we were still severely understaffed and I undertook the commissioning and even the writing of several subject areas, such as sports and geographical places, to relieve some of the pressure. Newspapers in Canada Article by Eli Yarhi Newspapers are printed publications that are issued daily, weekly, or at other regular intervals. Hurtig sent a submission to the Canada Council in 1976 to produce a single volume of some 3 million words. First Newspapers in Canada Article by Eli Yarhi The first newspapers in what is now Canada were published in Nova Scotia and Qubec in the early 1750s, followed by Upper Canada in the 1790s. Andrew serves as the handling editor for all arts, culture and history entries in The Canadian Encyclopedia. Indeed, encyclopedias have proven one of the most successful genres of multimedia to date. A librarian said that it belongs just everywhere., On a loftier plane others wrote that the encyclopedia helps us to see ourselves, and that the editor in chief has made a noble effort to gather in a phenomenal number of subjects and put them in Canadian perspective. The Toronto Star noted that the encyclopedia was a delight to browsers old and young, rich in detail and resourcefulness and perhaps best of all it incarnates a living sense of Canadas past and present. The well-respected critic William French wrote that the encyclopedia captured a nation in a nutshell and was an indispensable reference work for anyone with even the slightest interest in this improbable country of ours. When John Saywells review appeared he called it a superb accomplishment and eloquent testimony to the scholarly maturation of a nation. (He had been a contributor to Canadiana.