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From Birchtown and Harbourville to Lincolnville and Orangedale, small-town life in Nova Scotia is vividly rendered in this collection of stories from local residents compiled by an area journalist. Voices from these communities share perspectives on the...

During periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society that they govern. The expectation though is that once the conflict is over, these emergency powers will...

Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government. Canadians of Irish descent, both Catholic and Protestant, diligently followed these conflicts, and many became actively involved in the...

Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however-the one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel there-is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do...

In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few closely related families established a utopian community in Canada's smallest province. Known officially as B. Compton Limited but described by a journalist in 1935 as "Prince Edward Island's unique...

Harold A. Innis helped to found the field of Canadian economic history. He is best known for the "staples thesis" which dominated the discourse of Canadian economic history for decades. This volume collects Innis' published and unpublished...

An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth. Conceived as a "palace for prisoners," the Don Jail never lived up to its promise. Although based on progressive...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America...

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight...

For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they...

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada's engagements in the world since confederation, this introductory textbook charts a unique path by locating Canada's colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins...

In postwar Canada, having a child out-of-wedlock invariably meant being subject to the adoption mandate. Andrews describes the mandate as a process of interrelated institutional power systems which, together with socio-cultural norms, ideals of gender...

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human...

In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393869Author Joyce YardleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged...

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band...

The contents of this book cover the Mi'kmaw people and the descendents of the pre-Confederation black community, racial subjects and human rights, black/Mi'kmaw relations in Nova Scotia, and much more.Book InformationISBN 9781552663233Author Paula C...

Debunking the common perception that immigrants are admitted into a new country because of the host country's generosity and willingness to provide refuge and security, this collection of immigrant case studies suggests that immigrants are admitted to...

The ten essays in this richly illustrated volume detail Nova Scotia's industrial history. Covering coal, steel, iron, ropeworks, and railways, this work presents a rich and diverse industrial heritage that includes a discussion of the impact of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888394552Author Jim SiroisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771895470Author Martha BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Government of British ColumbiaPublisher Government of British ColumbiaWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962753053Author Claire Rudolf MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Hillside PressPublisher Hillside PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Exploring Toronto's history through tantalizing true tales of romance, marriage, and lust. Toronto's past is filled with passion and heartache. The Toronto Book of Love brings the history of the city to life with fascinating true tales of romance,...

A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood...

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...

Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade's political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes...

A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected.Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and...

It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the 1970s. Being Fat focuses on the earliest strands of the movement, covering the last decades of the twentieth century. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551094502Author Theresa MeuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551537597Author Megan DurnfordFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Amazing StoriesPublisher Amazing StoriesWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770467439Author Chris OliverosFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Drawn & QuarterlyPublisher Drawn & QuarterlyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990776809Author Howard WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 848g