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Providing a concise chronicle of its various cultures, this handy reference recounts the broad and complex history of Nova Scotia, Canada. Beginning with an exploration of its indigenous people, the Mi'Kmaq, this overview delves into the stories of the...

Fun with Canadian historical figures and events.Book InformationISBN 9781552780022Author Gordon SnellFormat HardbackPage Count 119Imprint McArthur & CompanyPublisher McArthur & CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 128mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552664674Author Jane KoustasFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640648Author NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 389Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550653168Author Sara Ferdman TaubenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 254g

In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century. In Law,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886293482Author Evan H. PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union in 1948 were uninformed and gullible. Raymond Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that voters fully understood the issues at stake in both...

Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union in 1948 were uninformed and gullible. Raymond Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that voters fully understood the issues at stake in both...

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners...

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners...

In 2011, the University of Regina began celebrating an important milestone--the centennial of Regina College, the Methodist high school that was the foundation for the creation of the University itself more than 60 years later. The University of Regina...

Payepot and His People was first published serially by The Western Producer . In 1957 it was published in book form by the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society. Abel Watetch was a nephew of Chief Payepot and a veteran of World War I. As noted in the...

Amelia McLean Paget was born in 1867 at Fort Simpson, in what is now the Northwest Territories. Her father, William McLean, was a Scot involved in the fur trade and her mother, Helen Murray, belonged to an illustrious Metis family which had been active...

One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy stereotypes of oil-spoiled, beef-eating, bible-thumping rednecks devoid of class or culture. Through essay,...

The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents' working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888399724Author Lorraine HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

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...

In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the...

Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. "On All Frontiers" is a comprehensive history of Canadian...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment or the history of women.Book InformationISBN 9780774838870Author Ted McCoyFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of...

A Timeless Place will interest scholars in cultural geography; tourism, leisure, and recreation studies; sociology and anthropology; cultural history; Canadian studies; and, of course, cottagers from Ontario and elsewhere.Book InformationISBN...

Traces how Canada's colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate changeIncludes over 200 photographs, maps, figures, and sidebar discussions on key figures,...

Frontier and pioneer societies provide numerous unexplored avenues of social history. Game in the Garden identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to...

The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon...

This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces. A fundamental...

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet until now, there have been no comprehensive accounts of Canadian history on television. Monica MacDonald takes us behind the scenes of the...

Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and...

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling,...

First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps,...

In Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell, Warren Elofson debunks the myth of the American "wild west" and the Canadian "mild west" by demonstrating that cattlemen on both sides of the forty-ninth parallel...

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One of the acrimonious episodes in French-English relations in Canada resulted from the bilingual schools question in Ontario in the early part of the twentieth century; the issue reinforced the divisions within the Catholic Church between francophones...

Gael Force provides a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players. Merv Daub takes the reader through a century of Queen's football, from the first "Dominion"...

Adam Shortt began teaching political economy at Queen's University in the late 1880s. His theories attracted students and faculty who were interested in applying the new tenets of economics and political science to questions of Canadian public policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771072406Author Andre PratteFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 425g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction 2008. Short-listed for Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780679314769Author...

Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured...

It is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries' rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why...

The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though...