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In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days' fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American...

Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, McLean examines in detail nine group emigrations that left western Inverness between 1785 and 1802 for Glengarry County in Upper Canada (now Ontario). She describes how, once in North America, they...

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Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550020854Author Hereward SeniorFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately jumped to the conclusion that the hunters were talking about survivors of the Franklin expedition and...

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There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to...

"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child's...

Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the "land of plenty." Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all...

A compelling case for the connection between Freemasonry and the notorious Oak Island treasure, written by a historian and Curse of Oak Island guest expert.If you think you know everything about the secrets of Oak Island, think again.Oak Island: A...

Have you ever been to the LaHave Islands Marine Museum on Bell Island? How about the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Judique, or the Africville Museum in Halifax? Joan Dawson has. Armed with a spirit of adventure, curiosity, and the belief that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634245326Author Jeff BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine Day

The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling...

Jean Morrison, Ruth McKenzie, Harriet Rouillard, Isabel Wilson, and Clare Clark were among the many intellectual women contributing to the birth and growth of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, which was transformative for literacy in the...

Jean Morrison, Ruth McKenzie, Harriet Rouillard, Isabel Wilson, and Clare Clark were among the many intellectual women contributing to the birth and growth of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, which was transformative for literacy in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781459755550Author Richard H. GimblettFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dundurn PressPublisher The Dundurn GroupWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 247mm *...

In January 1885, as the people of Montreal celebrated one of the greatest winter carnivals of the century, a deadly epidemic inched its way through the city streets. When the case of a railway porter suffering from smallpox was gravely mishandled, what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384900665Author Julie MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Abdo Kids JumboPublisher Abdo Kids JumboWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 230mm *...

As Julia Harrison's first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison...

The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a...

This book chronicles the breakdown of the marriage of Robert and Eliza Campbell, a couple living in Whitby, Ontario. Their case precipitated a six-year battle in the Ontario courts and the Parliament of Canada in the 1870s.In the Court of Common Pleas,...

French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable...

The World Today Series: Canada 2025-2026 is an annually updated presentation of Canada. It provides historical background on Canada to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region. It covers the country's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735236868Author Adam ShoaltsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998141074Author Jesse HoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hutterian Brethren Book CentrePublisher Hutterian Brethren Book CentreWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870979Author Timothy S. ForestFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia Press

Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies. Canada and the Third World...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771097744Author Elizabeth ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228865001Author Chris KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint TellWell PressPublisher TellWell PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

No Place Like Home chronicles a little-known episode in Canada's national history: when internment was first employed during the Great War under the War Measures Act.Highlighting the problem of immigrant fit and belonging, Bohdan Kordan shows how legal,...

During the nineteenth-century, the writing of history in English-speaking Canada changed from promotional efforts by amateurs to an academically-based discipline. Professor Taylor charts this transition in a comprehensive history. The early historians -...

From early reports of the invention to its wide application during World War I, photography created anticipation and participation in the modern world. A History of Photography in Canada: Volume 1 captures this phenomenon by looking at hundreds of early...

There have been many things written about Canada's violent siege of Kanehsata:ke and Kahnawa:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel,...

This new volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada (DCB / DBC) presents well-written, carefully documented and meticulously edited biographies of Canadians from all walks of life. Its literary and scholarly...

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms -...