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TOTEM [5 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

totem: an item in the "Personal Symbols" class of the "Communication Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

totem : objet de la classe «Symboles personnels» de la catégorie «Objets de communication».

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
  • Sculpture
DEF

A pole or pillar carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols representing family lineage and often mythical or historical incidents and erected before the houses of Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America.

CONT

Adrien Panadis is an Abenaki artist who carves sculptures and ceremonial totem poles. His sources of inspiration stem in all likelihood from the totems on the West Coast of North America which identified the guardian animal of the tribe and held magic powers (healing, foretelling future events ...) for the Amerindians.

CONT

The totem pole was ... a symbol of family pride.

OBS

Sometimes the term "totem" is used elliptically in place of its longer and more correct form "totem pole". "Totem" should be reserved to denote an object (as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan, or at the very most, a carved or painted representation of such an object.

OBS

heraldic pole: term used by Parks Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
  • Sculpture
CONT

Adrien Panadis, un autre artiste abénaquis, taille des sculptures et des totems cérémoniels. Ses œuvres s'inspirent des totems de la côte Ouest de l'Amérique du Nord. Ces totems représentaient l'animal protecteur du clan et possédaient pour les Amérindiens des pouvoirs magiques de guérison ou divinatoires.

OBS

mât héraldique : terme en usage à Parcs Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
OBS

Sometimes the term "totem" is used elliptically in place of "totem pole". "Totem pole " should be reserved to denote a pole or pillar carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols representing family lineage and often mythical or historical incidents; conversely, "totem" should be reserved to denote an object (as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan, or at the very most, a carved or painted representation of such an object.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
DEF

Animal (quelquefois végétal, est très rarement chose) considéré comme l'ancêtre et par suite le protecteur d'un clan, objet de tabous et de devoirs particulier; représentation de l'animal choisi pour totem.

PHR

totem personnel

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

ToTEM is an open-economy, dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model that contains producers of four distinct finished products: consumption goods and services, investment goods, government goods, and export goods. ToTEM also contains a commodity-producing sector. The behaviour of almost all key variables in ToTEM is traceable to a set of fundamental assumptions about the underlying structure of the Canadian economy.

CONT

However, ToTEM extends this basic framework, allowing for optimizing behaviour on the part of households and firms, both in and out of steady state, in a multi-product environment.

OBS

The Terms-of-Trade Economic Model, or ToTEM, replaced the Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) in December 2005 as the Bank [of Canada's] principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy.

Key term(s)
  • Terms of Trade Economic Model

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

TOTEM est un modèle d'équilibre général dynamique et stochastique adapté à un cadre d'économie ouverte. Il comprend quatre catégories de produits finis :les biens et services finaux, les biens d'équipement, les biens publics et les biensd'exportation. Il compte aussi un volet distinct pour le secteur des produits de base. Le comportement de la quasi-totalité des variables clés de TOTEM a son origine dans un ensemble d'hypothèses fondamentales concernant la structure de l'économie canadienne.

CONT

Cependant, TOTEM va plus loin en permettant de prendre en compte le comportement optimisateur des ménages et des entreprises dans une économie à produits multiples, aussi bien en régime permanent que hors équilibre.

OBS

En décembre 2005, TOTEM (pour Terms-of-Trade Economic Model) a remplacé le Modèle trimestriel de prévision (MTP) à titre de principal modèle utilisé par la Banque du Canada pour l'élaboration de projections au sujet de l'économie canadienne et l'analyse de politiques.

Spanish

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Record 5 1985-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Thermodynamics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Thermodynamique
DEF

Appareil alimenté au gaz, basé sur le moteur 127 de Fiat et qui permet la production intégrée de chaleur et d'électricité.

Spanish

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