50 10 686 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/8fbcd6eaf1826de7c550166eed9f5a24.png 09be7bddc23dba43d9616678f7db908d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cyclists' in Elm Park Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lehr, C. John, and John H. Selwood. "The Two-Wheeled Workhorse: The Bicycle as Personal and Commercial Transport in Winnipeg.” Urban History Review 28, no. 1 (1999): 7. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/67419fc8d58029c254b53a7ef9203d39.png df6c59b12d1a138b0c4357f6a84946f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bicycle Routes in 1905 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lehr, C. John, and John H. Selwood. "The Two-Wheeled Workhorse: The Bicycle as Personal and Commercial Transport in Winnipeg.” Urban History Review 28, no. 1 (1999): 7. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/0958009b82792d3de5a68d8e90280402.jpg 2eb43c49ce79bf6de95e5c7f97feda57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Looking north from CPR Hotel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Barrowclough Photo Card. "Looking north from CPR Hotel" Peel's Prairie Provinces. Accessed June 29, 2016. https://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC001862.html. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/23008c1d9a924d714f318ffcfabfe45e.png 02beaaf0bf46638d7737a13a0b881ce5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Villa San Girolamo Subject The topic of the resource The English Patient begins in the Villa, named eventually as Villa San Girolamo. It has served as a hospital for the British forces. Previously it served as lodging for the Germans forces, and before that as a nunnery. Hana works in the hospital, but refuses to move on with the rest of the doctors, nurses and patients when the hospital uproots to move north. Instead she hands in her uniform and remains by the side of her English patient, Almasy. The Villa is located in the hills near Florence, Italy. It is likely in Fiesole, Italy. It is in such ruin, that it protects Hana and the Patient from outsiders. Eventually, David Caravaggio and Kirpal Singh also arrive at the Villa. The villa anchors the narrative. It harbours the characters of the novel in the aftermath of the war, although many of their minds wander to other locations. While living in the villa, they remember their homes in Toronto and India, their work in Pisa, England, Cairo, and the Egyptian/Libyan desert. The English Patient, while remaining in body in the villa, wanders in mind to the Gilf Kebir, the Wadi Sura, and other locations of the desert. In “Deconstructing the Nation – Transnationalism in Ondaatje’s The English Patient” Vijayalayn and Jose argue that the villa parallels the passing identities of the patient and other characters, “in keeping with the patient’s portrayal, the villa also represents a phenomenon of passing identities. From being a nunnery it becomes a lodging camp for the German troops, subsequently converted into a hospital when captured by the allied soldiers. It is noteworthy that with every new occupation increasingly substantial damages are inflicted on the villa’s architecture. (Vijaylayn and Jose, 677). The villa has become a place where most of the characters can recover from the war. They are damaged, much as the villa is. They shed their skins, as explorers, lovers, nurses, thieves... and become individual people grappling with what they have lost and who they are. Description An account of the resource “The Villa San Girolamo, built to protect inhabitants from the flesh of the devil, had the look of a besieged fortress, the limbs of most of the statues blown off during the first day of shelling. There seemed little demarcation between house and landscape, between damaged building and the burned and shelled remnants of the earth” (Ondaatje, 43) https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/713400939a2ae98f5d217785be230884.png a676007e3db421ef3cf06e658650a4ff https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/e59f8175aae5138a6a59e2d0a489bfcf.png dbac3c7f2b93792dd0d4dfed8188b143 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gilf Kebir Subject The topic of the resource The Gilf Kebir plateau is located in the Libyan/Egyptian Desert. It is a point of interest for Ladilaus de Almasy, who believes that the Gilf Kebir Plateau contains the mythical Zerzura oasis. Almasy remembers the period in of the 1930’s when he and others such as Madox and the Clifton’s explore the Gilf Kebir Plateau. The novel describes “In 1930 we had begun mapping the greater part of the Gilf Kebir Plateau, looking for the lost oasis that was called Zer-zura. The City of Acacias. We were desert Europeans. John Bell had sighted the Gilf in 1917. Then Kemal el Din. Then Bagnold, who found his way south into the Sand Sea. Madox, Walpole of Desert Surveys, His Excellency Wash Bey, Casparius the photographer, Dr. Kadar the geologist and Bermann. And the Gilf Kebir— that large plateau resting in the Libyan Desert, the size of Switzerland, as Madox liked to say— was our heart, its escarpments precipitous to the east and west, the plateau sloping gradually to the north. It rose out of the desert four hundred miles west of the Nile”. (Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient (Kindle Locations 1642-1647). McClelland & Stewart. Kindle Edition.) The exploration of the Gilf Kebir mirrors the real expeditions that Lazlo Almasy made in the 1930s. In H. W. G. J. Penderel’s lecture given in January 1934 to the Royal Geographical Society, he describes a very similar expedition to Ondaatje’s fictionalized version. The expedition’s group is described “The members of the expedition were Count Ladislaus de Almasy, Kadar, a geographer and geologist of the University of Budapest, Casparius, photographer and cine-photographer, Dr. Bermann, whom you will hear to-night, and myself. The native personnel consisted of Sudanese drivers and one cook. For our transport we had selected A-type Ford cars with box” (Penderel, Geographical Society, 453). The Gilf Kebir is very much the place where Almasy’s mind usually wanders. It is through his morphine induced storytelling that he accounts these years he spent exploring and mapping the Egyptian/Libyan Desert. Description An account of the resource “The name that still filled our mouths was Gilf Kebir. Somewhere in the Gilf nestled Zerzura, whose name occurs in Arab writings as far back as the thirteenth century" (Ondaatje, 142) https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/b4434fd049c4239382deb946bc818d7c.jpg a71f865e40d6a6f9a09e53bc22394840 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/dca64932b4a21c6bee6b8ea09f6151fe.png 02066f319a467366b0a6be8fd2778d22 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/33a29dc52d28f7523a43a5ee6a602163.png c9c074426a690a6672ad2cec61a35607 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource László Almásy Subject The topic of the resource The novel revolves around the mysterious character of Almasy. His identity is hidden from the other characters, due to his physical and mental scars. As Vijayalayan and Jose state “Owing to a plane crash, the body of the patient was utterly burnt beyond recognition. He is “A man with no face. An ebony pool. All identification consumed in a fire... There was nothing to recognize in him”. [...] The unidentifiable figure of the patient becomes a blank canvas for projecting many shifting identities”. (Vijayalayan, Jose, 675). Hana and David Caravaggio attempt to uncover his identity, for various reasons. Hana, believing he is a “despairing saint”, worships him, and hopes to gain access to his inner self. Caravaggio, concerned for Hana, comes to realize who this man is, and his actions during the war. Almasy’s mind is far away from the villa, although his burned body remains there. Under the influence of morphine, Almasy recounts the 1930s when he was exploring the Gilf Kebir for Zerzura, as well as details aobout his love affair with Katherine Clifton. He is transfixed by the desert, forever reliving the time he spent there. Hana tells Caravaggio that the English patient is “still in Africa.” (Ondaatje 404). And Almasy is a man who is more comfortable in the desert. In the Geographical Journal’s 1951 obituary for Almasy states, “seemed in civilization rather out of his element”. The identity of Ladislaus de Almasy is difficult for Hana and Caravaggio to unlock because Almasy complicates it. The desert has erased his identity both figuratively, as well as physically in the plane crash. Almasy also chooses to reject his identity, and does not correct those who believe he is English. Being in the desert, Almasy comes to hate nations, and what they represent, despite his position as a mapmaker. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/de356d3b88af24138de54f8ec8b702ba.png b4f65f8924b3ace934f7495ad8d2f3b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hana Subject The topic of the resource Hana is the nurse that cares for the English Patient, Almásy. She is twenty when the book begins. She is from Toronto, Canada. After her father joins the war she trains to be a nurse. In 1943 she is sent to Italy with the First Canadian Infantry Division. She moves from hospital to hospital, following the far. She and the English patient are moved to Villa San Girolamo, that acts as a hospital. When the doctors and nurses and patients move again, to follow the war North, Hana refuses to leave. She remains with the English patient, who she considers "her despairing saint". She has nursed him for months, but still knows little about him. She reads books to him, that she finds in the Villa's library. Later in the book, when Kirpal Singh arrives to the villa, Hana begins an affair with him. Hana is also a character in Ondaatje's novel In The Skin Of A Lion. Description An account of the resource "Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them. Or from something as small as a letter. They would carry a severed arm down a hall, or swab at blood that never stopped, as if the wound were a well, and they began to believe in nothing, trusted nothing. They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded. The way Hana broke in Santa Chiara Hospital when an officail walked down the space between a hundred beds and gave her a letter that told her of the death of her father" https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/c1bbfabb8e5276fdb62f8947062fa88e.png 89866e79c7e2e91f4bbea82f43c867e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kirpal (Kip) Singh Subject The topic of the resource Kirpal Singh, or Kip, is a Sikh soldier, from India. He is working for the British Army, as a sapper. He diffuses the bombs planted through the countryside in Italy. He works around the Villa, but becomes close with Hana, Caravaggio and Almasy. He is twenty-six. Unlike the other characters, “He has emerged from the fighting with a calm which, even if false, means order for him. He continues his strictness,” (Ondaatje 1556-1557). He is fascinated by the British Empire and their customs, and he is loyal to the crown. Almasy takes a liking for Kip, claiming “Kip and I are both international bastards— born in one place and choosing to live elsewhere. Fighting to get back to or get away from our homelands all our lives. Though Kip doesn’t recognize that yet. That’s why we get on so well together.” (Ondaatje 2139-2141). Kirpal Singh is calm and reserved and loyal to the British Army, until he hears news about atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. He confronts Almasy “I sat at the foot of this bed and listened to you, Uncle. These last months. When I was a kid I did that, the same thing. I believed I could fill myself up with what older people taught me. I believed I could carry that knowledge, slowly altering it, but in any case passing it beyond me to another. I grew up with traditions from my country, but later, more often, from your country. Your fragile white island that with customs and manners and books and prefects and reason somehow converted the rest of the world. [...] You and your Americans converted us. With your missionary rules. And Indian soldiers wasted their lives as heroes so they could be pukkah. You had wars like cricket. How did you fool us into this? Here … listen to what you people have done.” (Ondaatje 3415-3419). Kip is destroyed by this act, and he reclaims his full name, Kirpal Singh, “His name is Kirpal Singh and he does not know what he is doing here” (Ondaatje 3476-3477). He escapes the villa, and retraces his steps through Italy, visiting various churches along the way. In “Maps in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Abu Baker claims that “Ondaatje introduces the Indian Kip as a revolutionary version of Kipling’s Kim. Like Kim, Kip begins as a devoted colonised who serves the British Empire. Kim remains the devoted servant of the empire and works against his own people, whereas Kip rebels against it after the nuclear bombing of Japan and casts away his ‘colonised shell’. (Abu Baker, 107). After the atomic bombs, Kip wonders what he has been doing all of these years during the war. He becomes distanced from the other characters, who although they are not British, are all part of a very different world than him. Kip blames the patient, yet Caravaggio claims “Of all people he is probably on your side” (Ondaatje, 3455). Of all the people at the Villa, Almasy best understands the harm nations and wars can do. Kip removes himself from the others, and returns to his home. Near the end of the book, we see him in middle age. He is a doctor, with a wife and two children. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/9b2348ee118e56b20d6ccb6f2effe0bd.png 03299a3abf62b035c50b8759d33697bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping 1907 Alexandria Virginia. Subject The topic of the resource Historical photos and mapping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Katie Hatton Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource DeWilton Aitcheson Headquarters for Coal and Wood ad Subject The topic of the resource Historic Alexandria Description An account of the resource An ad for the DeWilton Aitcheson Headquarters for Coal and Wood from the 1907 Alexandria City Directory Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 1907 Alexandria City Directory https://omeka.uottawa.ca/jmccutcheon/files/original/8774215ae6b5ef622f9ddd407d3c950b.png af3300b252b3724c5f601cf2bc8ad412 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapping 1907 Alexandria Virginia. Subject The topic of the resource Historical photos and mapping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Katie Hatton Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Henry Baader & Sons Co. Ad Subject The topic of the resource Historic Alexandria Description An account of the resource Ad for Henry Baader & Son's published in the 1907 Alexandria City Directory. The store sells a variety of items such as stoves, tin, sheet iron, furs, skins, and hides. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 1907 Alexandria City Directory Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1907