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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771083461Author Brian CuthbertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

"A regular dose of fresh sea air will add years to your life and life to your years." "Only rock the boat if you are out of it." "Water cleanses; the sea heals." Lifelong seaside gardener Denise Adams shares 70 ocean-inspired reflections, each paired...

Niniskamijinaqik - Ancestral Images provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Canada-East Nonfiction) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781551095615Author Chris MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551095387Author Heather-Anne GetsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771081665Author Wanda TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988286174Author Joan BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Pottersfield PressPublisher Pottersfield PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement - which held that Canada could...

For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed national history of the organization, Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement...

Is Canada a country of equal and peacefully coexisting identities, working towards what Charles Taylor has called a 'post-industrial Sittlichkeit'? In this analysis of the history of Canadian diversity, Richard Day argues that no degree or style of state...

Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this...

Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada's Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in...

Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial...

There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival...

A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt provides coast-to-coast-to-coast representation and features an impressive balance of personal, formal, and legal documents. Four new chapters cover sexual advice in Victorian Canada, treaties of the far north, drugs in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887559471Author Dale BarbourFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams)...

One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano's transcription and...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings...

In this seminal work, Maureen Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by European...

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original...

This is the story of Canada's encounter with the bicycle in the late nineteenth century, set in the context of the cultural movement known as 'modernity.' Glen Norcliffe covers the bicycle's history from about 1869, when the first bicycle appeared in...

Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771080347Author Bob KrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)

From Drawing to Visual Culture takes a sweeping view of the role of visual art in Canadian education, from its roots as industrial drawing in the early nineteenth century to its important but often ambiguous position in contemporary schools. Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553391890Author John R. AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 594g

On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada-A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At...

The federal Department of Justice was established by John A. Macdonald as part of the Conservative party's program for reform of the parliamentary system following Confederation. Among other things, it was charged with establishing national institutions...

The West and Beyond evaluates and appraises the state ofWestern Canadian history, acknowledging and assessing the contributionsof historians of the past and present while showcasing the researchinterests of a new generation of scholars. It charts new...

In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The order recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements, dedication, and service to the country. It is a product of national identity, politics, and history, and includes...

Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774804905Author Tappan AdneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis from 1740 to 1840. He...

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How do parties with official opposition status influence Canadian politics? Across the Aisle is an innovative examination of the theory and practice of opposition in Canada, both in Parliament and in provincial legislatures. Extending from the...

The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Celine Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist...

Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and formation of the...

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House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monuments and become living history museums offering theme-based tours led by period-costumed interpreters so...

Consisting of a series of stories, events, and episodes, the book highlights shifting patterns, attitudes, and perspectives toward women in the Prairies. One of Carter's overarching themes is that women are seldom in a position to invent or project their...