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Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade's political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes...

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The Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest. After the Famine investigates the subsequent emigration of many...

Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and...

In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members...

It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the Canadian movement, which emerged around 1977 and ended around 1997 with...

Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has been a part of the arts scene in Toronto for eighty years. Richard Warren, the orchestra's archivist since 1976, uncovers taped interviews and other documentation of the orchestra's musicians, visiting artists, music...

Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War...

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of...

Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War, made an arduous journey through...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467120104Author Harold E. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772440577Author D Paul SchaferFormat PaperbackImprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781344644556Author Henry Smith WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint Arkose PressPublisher Arkose PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498191623Author Professor Duncan CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 318g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999133900Author Hammad JunejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Expressed BooksPublisher Expressed BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771030953Author Jack FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Breakwater Books Ltd.Publisher Breakwater Books Ltd.Weight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177596Author Doreen ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554889945Author Lionel FanthorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Natural Heritage BooksPublisher Natural Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 383g

Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow -- or spectre -- of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely,...

Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774840740Author Mark B HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint House to House PressPublisher House to House PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554521197Author Neil F DenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Essence Publishing (Canada)Publisher Essence Publishing (Canada)Weight(grams) 118g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926469102Author Gunter RochowFormat PaperbackImprint Waldo RochowPublisher Waldo RochowWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772440881Author D Paul SchaferFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387647699Author Sean MittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553657736Author David J. MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Douglas & McIntyre Publishing GroupPublisher Douglas & McIntyre Publishing...

The Town of Orangeville has a colourful, exciting past -- a history being documented in book form for the first time. From the early days of the Irish pioneers escaping the political problems of Ireland to the present influx of new residents fleeing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772440195Author D Paul SchaferFormat PaperbackImprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 381g

July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation, the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777590109Author David R GreatrixFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 152g

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