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Original Title:	The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder
ISBN:	067931220X (ISBN13: 9780679312208)
Edition Language:	English

The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder Hardcover | Pages: 736 pages

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Title	:	The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder
Author	:	Charlotte Gray
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 736 pages
Published	:	October 12th 2004 by Random House Canada (first published 2004)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Canada. Art. Photography

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Hold our history in your hands, with a spectacular virtual museum that is at once a sweeping exploration of Canadian history and culture, an indispensable reference guide and a remarkable treasury of information.

Welcome to a museum so vast and full of wonder that it could only be called Canada. Each of The Museum Called Canada’s 25 rooms houses carefully chosen exhibits that illuminate a significant historical theme. This majestic collection brings together high art and popular culture, science and nature, rare objects and whimsical ephemera. Here you will see the empty eye sockets of Tyrannosaurus Rex and be able to examine intricate and ethereal wood-carved angels built for Quebec’s Rideau Chapel. Exhibits span the breadth of our nation, from the Yuquot Whaler’s Shrine of Vancouver Island’s Nootka to an anti-Confederation poster from the controversially soon-to-be-province Newfoundland.

Your guide to the collection is historian and author Charlotte Gray. For each room in the museum, Gray has written a short essay that delves into the world of a particularly evocative artifact and its importance in the context of the room’s theme and time period.

The Museum Called Canada — with its expansive vision, its surprising juxtapositions, its visual feasts and intellectual explorations — is a beautiful and inspiring place that you will want to visit again and again.

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Ratings: 4.1 From 52 Users | 5 Reviews

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This book was excellent. It could be used as a history book in schools in Canada. It was interesting and well presented and had a room for whatever you might have as an interest.

I was fascinated and learned a lot from this book but was constantly distracted by its omissions. For example, there's a picture of white men in suits symbolically hammering in the last spike in the railway built in the 1800s but no mention of the Chinese labourers on whose backs it was built. The book is similarly silent or meek on residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, the MS St. Louis, the internment of the Japanese, the Ecole Polytechnique, or any other of Canada's failings that are as much

I was fascinated and learned a lot from this book but was constantly distracted by its omissions. For example, there's a picture of white men in suits symbolically hammering in the last spike in the railway built in the 1800s but no mention of the Chinese labourers on whose backs it was built. The book is similarly silent or meek on residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, the MS St. Louis, the internment of the Japanese, the Ecole Polytechnique, or any other of Canada's failings that are as much



Charlotte Gray is one of Canadas best-known writers, and author of eight acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she began her writing career in England as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. After coming to Canada in 1979, she worked as a political commentator, book reviewer and magazine

This book is jam-packed with interesting information about Canada and its prehistory. A "How we got to now" for our country. Putting this on my to-buy list as it needs to be digested as you have time and inclination

Can't say Iread all of this big picture volume of the history of Canada. Interesting way of dividing eras into rooms in a museaum. Would like to give this to a few history buffs I know. Charlotte Gray's research team is amazing. She continues to pump out Canadian History.. good for her. But why isn't she as well known as Pierre Burton? Because he was the first to write our history and also he had a television profile. How many of our writers do we see on TV?