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Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton's larger coal...

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This book is a history of Canada's role in the world as well as the impact of world events on Canada. Starting from the country's quasi-independence from Britain in 1867, its analysis moves through events in Canadian and global history to the present day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550020281Author Brereton GreenhousFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group Ltd

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...

Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches, the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the...

The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a...

Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook. I wish to keep a record is the first book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460006566Author John McKentyFormat PaperbackImprint Epic PressPublisher Epic PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487579166Author Greg MarquisFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621370765Author Charles T SchaferFormat PaperbackImprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357940979Author Alexander BradyPage Count 78Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887759418Author Harold a SkaarupFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 1411g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556136122Author William W CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947514454Author Mercedes Benoit-PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint St. Clair PublicationsPublisher St. Clair PublicationsWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912483815Author David MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint SonittecPublisher SonittecWeight(grams) 354g

Embattled Nation explores Canada's tumultuous wartime election of 1917 and the people and issues that made it a pivotal moment in Canadian history.Embattled Nation explores the drama of Canada's tumultuous election of 1917. In the context of the bloody...

An enthralling exploration of the lifestyles, ideas, habits, organizations, customs, fears, and aspirations of Canadians in the age of Confederation.Too often we think of Victorian Canada as dull. We imagine our ancestors as sepia-tinged, dour,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038321152Author Fraser MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038318091Author James M RothFormat HardbackPage Count 666Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 1139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038318084Author James M RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 666Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 962g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991776504Author Dorothea MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in PublicationPublisher Library and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616473Author La Vaughn Vanderburg KemnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Mountainswest PublishingPublisher Mountainswest PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616411Author La Vaughn Vanderburg KemnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Mountainswest PublishingPublisher Mountainswest PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228889502Author Donald HuffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228889496Author Donald HuffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 358g

The Canadian Handicrafts Guild broadened the definition of art and the artist in Canada. Linking decorative arts with home arts and handicrafts, the Guild consistently showed them together at annual exhibitions at the art gallery in Montreal and formed a...

Financed by British spoils from eastern Maine in the War of 1812, modelled on the University of Edinburgh, and shaped by Scottish democratic education tradition, Dalhousie was unique among Nova Scotia colleges in being the only liberal, nonsectarian...

Hungarian immigrants' status as foreigners and their disadvantageous class position prevented them from gaining power in Canadian society, forcing them to rely almost exclusively on ideologies and institutions within their own communities to better their...

Using unused or little-known documents, Keith fills in gaps and corrects inconsistencies in previous information about the company. North of Athabasca not only includes the extensively annotated texts of eleven North West Company documents but Keith's...

Details how NATO's leadership failed to develop the organization's non-military potentialDetails how NATO's leadership failed to develop the organization's non-military potentialAbout the AuthorJohn C. Milloy is a member of the provincial Parliament for...

The appointment of John William Dawson as principal in 1855 brought modern ideas of education to Montreal, and he imparted to the emerging institution his own deeep commitment to science. The Molson Hall in 1862, the first Medical School on campus in...

Inventing Secondary Education is the first contemporary examination of the origins of the Ontario high school, and one of the very few which focuses on the development of secondary education anywhere in Canada. The authors chart the transformation of...

The book is divided into three sections: "Reflections on Innis" provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "Gaps and Silences" considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "Innis and Cultural Theory" offers speculations...

Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural...

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...

In Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations Joseph Levitt traces the history of these negotiations from the Canadian diplomatic perspective. He analyses the various proposals and documents the reactions of Pearson...

Focusing on the causes and extent of the Depression of the 1930s and its impact on a wide range of governmental policies, Bryce describes the department's increasing involvement in the formation and conduct of economic policies. The department was...