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Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization scheme encompassing an inter-colonial railway between...

The use and abuse of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion and the massive dissemination of folk images are analysed in depth. McKay examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society,...

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Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages of the city's inhabitants. The book demonstrates the...

With the opening of the Victoria Bridge in 1860, a year-round transportation route was finally established to the Atlantic Ocean at Portland, Maine. The bridge also provided connections, via the railway, to Upper-Canada and the mid-western United States...

With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies the implications of the recently announced Canadian...

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the...

"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in...

An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postAn exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postSecond World War Canada.About the AuthorCAReviews"A fine piece of work. This book is...

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...

The study concentrates on changes in Canada's approach to European integration after the watershed of 1989, examining the 1990 EC-Canada Transatlantic Declaration and the emergence of a Single European Market in 1993. Finally, it outlines the choices...

The competition to design and construct the government buildings in Ottawa, the new national capital, was one of the most important architectural events in nineteenth-century British North America and the finished buildings inspired a major movement in...

The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, Jose Igartua examines what type...

A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.About the...

French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted similar appropriations with far less durable...

Kealey provides an overview of the study of workers in Canada as well as in-depth examinations of two of the field's leading scholars, political economist Clare Pentland and Marxist historian Stanley Brehaut Ryerson. He analyses the development of...

A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.About the...

For more than a year and a half Sheila Arnopoulos travelled through the region visiting or living in Sudbury, Hearst, Dubreuilville, and Timmins. Here she chronicles the changes time has brought to the lives of some of the 700,000 people of French...

Newton argues that socialist women and their concerns posed a radical challenge to the male-dominated left. Early socialist women fought to be treated as equals and actively debated popular women's issues, including domestic work, women in industry,...

Alistair Edgar and David Haglund examine changes in the international demand for defence products in the post-Cold War era; review the reorganization and rationalization of the supply side of the international defence market through various government...

An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postAn exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and post-Second World War Canada.About the AuthorCAReviews"A fine piece of work. This book is...

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order. The nine contributors in this book argue...

How patients experienced disability at a famous rehabilitation centre.How patients experienced disability at a famous rehabilitation centre.About the AuthorGeoffrey Reaume is assistant professor, critical disability studies, York University, and the...

A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's disciples - champions of universal human rights and popular sovereignty.A new interpretation of confederation contends that the founding fathers were John Locke's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773509924Author Kerry M. AbelFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University Press

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...

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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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780771022760Author Andrew CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint McClelland &...

Canada has given the world the real Winnie the Pooh, the phrase "Beatlemania," and the man who invented the Academy Awards. If it weren't for Canada, we might not have the pie-in-the-face gag, basketball, time zones, or the dotted white line on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397157Author Vernon FrolickFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

The Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and North American history that has since become a classic. With that rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various...

Louis Riel believed that on 8 December 1875 he received a divine commission authorizing him to save the Metis and reform the Catholic Church. He was a prophet, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the Metis were the new chosen people. A new branch of the...

In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich...

On a snowy November day in 1872, the premier of Ontario is speaking in his constituency, and he tells a story - the story of his people's long struggle for liberty ... With this vignette Paul Romney leads us onto a lost middle ground between conflicting...

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