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"The contribution made by the Edmonton libraries to the sanity and support of the citizens cannot be estimated. No Annual Report can gauge things of this sort." -Annual Report of the Edmonton Public Library, 1931 The Edmonton Public Library...

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and...

Bishop William Carpenter Bompas was a difficult man, cantankerous, stubborn, and more than a little eccentric. He carried on his shoulders the deep spirituality of his own faith, the assumptions of his background, and the cultural aggressiveness of the...

Michael Nolan follows the evolution of CTV from a group of small independent television stations across Canada to the powerful network it is today. He chronicles the boardroom struggles within the network as strong personalities clashed over economic and...

Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that...

Ken Dryden moves from the personal to the global in setting forth a resolution oriented vision of Canada's role in the 21st century. By drawing upon his own diverse experience, Ken Dryden addresses the question 'What is Canada?'. Using images and...

In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations. Nothing to Write Home About is a detailed study of the settler colonial significance of...

Montreal, City of Water will interest scholars and students of urban environmental history, urbanization, and urban planning, particularly those with a focus on water history and urban rivers. Historians of Montreal and the St. Lawrence River region will...

In the decades following the Second World War, a revolutionary change took place in the Canadian national identity. The English-Canadian majority entered this period identifying themselves as British and emerged from it with a new, independent sense of...

Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in "a fit of absence of mind." Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected...

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biographical studyof a man who played a key role in the cataclysmic events which markedthe political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada inthe latter half of the nineteenth century. An immigrant...

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...

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 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...

When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized...

This book will have wide appeal to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, especially in the disciplines of Canadian studies, cultural geography, environmental studies, and Native studies; it will also appeal to a more general audience that has...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment or the history of women.Book InformationISBN 9780774838887Author Ted McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of...

She argues that nationalism is not one idea but a "relationship of voices, speaking from varying levels of political and social power, and to varying audiences." The Italian understanding of what it means to belong to Canada does not require...

Malcolm MacLeod begins his history of Memorial University College by describing the forces that promoted the creation of Newfoundland's own higher-education institution and the conditions that frustrated its advancement, such as the uneasy development of...

Details the black experience in Montreal during these eighty-odd yearsBook InformationISBN 9780773527355Author Frank MackeyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 420g

Frog Town describes in detail a French Canadian parish that was unique due to the high density of both Acadian and Quebecois settlers that were situated in a Yankee stronghold of Puritan stock. This demography provided for a volatile history that...

Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of work, caring for her...

Once a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision to transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh reality, violent feuds and factional strife, corrupt and ineffective leaders, and youths involved in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897071496Author Ian McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 653Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553390183Author Michael MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 496g

For centuries Montreal reigned as Canada's most beguiling city. Inspired by the pages of the Gazette, Canada's oldest daily newspaper (founded in 1778), here are seventy-five true tales to inspire, amuse, horrify and captivate. Stories include humourist...

The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and...

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...

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based...

This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in Canada's Prairie Provinces prior to the Great Depression. Without denying the central importance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987915037Author David Chuenyan LaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 462g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dafoe Book Prize 2012 and Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing 2012. Short-listed for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2011 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788376387925Author Marcin GabrysFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 168mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447061346Author Karin IkasFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5940g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143055860Author Joseph BoydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hamish HamiltonPublisher Hamish HamiltonWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...

For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland...

"Natives and Settlers provides a beginning to what should be (and should have been) a continuing, respectful discussion." -Blanca Schorcht, Associate Professor, University of Northern British Columbia Is Canada truly postcolonial? Burdened by a...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province's population and the German language was spoken in businesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520438Author Daniel FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 371g

400 Years in 365 Days gives readers a fun, trivia-filled record which reflects the communities and peoples of Nova Scotia spanning the past 400+ years. Leo Deveau has assembled over a thousand entries that reflect events in the lives and histories of...