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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926700618Author Lisa WojnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Blue Bike BooksPublisher Blue Bike BooksWeight(grams) 246g

The eighteen articles selected for this third volume of the History of the Prairie West series all focus on the agricultural history of the Canadian Plains. Early First Nations practices are examined, as are subsequent evolutions in farming, ranching,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396198Author Reg AshwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926700243Author Joanna EmeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Blue Bike BooksPublisher Blue Bike BooksWeight(grams) 288g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894974738Author Johnnie BachuskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897190098Author Anthony CleggFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 550g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927051788Author Rich MoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395986Author Kenneth E. PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's defences, from...

Examining the incomparable "Main," or Saint-Laurent Boulevard, that crosses the heart of Montreal from north to south, this book explores how it has been a gateway for immigrants and the place where "solitudes" have met. With analysis...

In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772662835Author Jay SherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams) 1100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385661898Author Pierre BertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552665510Author Lynn CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771025112Author John DemontFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772668301Author Professor Jack LohmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia...

The Poetics of Land and Identity is about the meaning of land for the many diverse First Nations within British Columbia. The work offers a study of the folklore and symbolic traditions within many Aboriginal regions and illustrates how these traditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771047787Author Catherine FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

This exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China, covering the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. Their movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772663436Author Nancy OkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams) 476g

This is a critical, personalized approach to reframing the discipline of psychology through a singular narrative in the form of a memoir written by a successful research psychologist. In this book we follow Martin’s unique career, which has allowed him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385658430Author Pierre BertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

According to its licence plates, tourist brochures, and commercials, Nova Scotia is Canada's Ocean Playground - an idyllic vacation spot brimming with traditional cultural experiences. Yet this picturesque and welcoming ad-friendly facade overlooks the...

Paul-Émile Borduas had both successes and failures as he tried to express in artwork and words his vision of a generous, spontaneous, creative society. He was the catalyst for events that led to the writing of an important social and artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634243520Author Harry S. WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine DayWeight(grams) 152g

Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587313745Author Thomas HeilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize 2011 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781771623278Author Ian GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Douglas &...

Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada's rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 - even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed...

Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state. In New France, the principal crop in question was wheat, and its production, consumption, exchange, and...

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events 3) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781926662770Author Ian McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177633Author Ken DrushkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 725gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784687Author Charlotte GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 looks at Canadian women's experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as...

Trail of Story, Traveller's Path examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson's rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of northwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dene of the...

The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformative political and cultural engagement. Merging Fires offers case studies of grassroots alliance building...