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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550028751Author Jane PitfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540223005Author Clifford Robinson ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

Christian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples, Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott have brought together new and established Canadian scholars to examine the...

"Reading the Riot Act" is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their "charges" are getting out of hand. The act itself is a seldom-used piece of legislation actually designed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926469119Author Reinhilde RochowFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Waldo RochowPublisher Waldo RochowWeight(grams) 281g

Historians have traditionally approached North America through the lens of the nation-state rather than from a continental perspective. While acknowledging that the geographic vastness and historical complexity of North America make it difficult to study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927099735Author Allison LawlorFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Boulder BooksPublisher Boulder BooksWeight(grams) 566g

In Canada, the donut is often thought of as the unofficial national food. Donuts are sold at every intersection and rest stop, celebrated in song and story as symbols of Canadian identity, and one chain in particular, Tim Horton's, has become a veritable...

Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular basis. These places are also rallying points for immigrants, helping them make the transition to a new,...

Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers-with the complicity of state officials-discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647461126Author Tracy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Tracy BrownPublisher Tracy BrownWeight(grams) 227g

Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy's story is largely...

This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with...

Recent years have witnessed a breakdown in consensus about what history should be taught within Canadian schools; there is now a heightened awareness of the political nature of deciding whose history is, or should be, included in social studies and...

Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario's towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond; the Prince of Wales's undignified crossing of Rice Lake;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637168288Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895493023Author Evelyn Sangster BensonFormat PaperbackImprint Westminster PublishingPublisher Westminster PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228834786Author Trevor GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989701249Author Alexandre PopovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint KersplebedebPublisher KersplebedebWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896219639Author Christie BenthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Natural Heritage BooksPublisher Natural Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 439g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958082775Author Barbara WyssFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Barbara WyssPublisher Barbara WyssWeight(grams) 141g

Historical Distillates examines the history of the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto from its beginnings in 1843, when it was housed in simple quarters in the Parliament Buildings on Front Street and had just one faculty member. During...

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through...

The relationship between Canada and France has always been complicated by the Canadian federal government's relations with Quebec. In this first study of Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War, Olivier Courteaux demonstrates how Canada's...

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Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been "in on the ground floor" of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039132429Author Dr David S MulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354200014Author Lawrence Johnstone BurpeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540221841Author Dennis RizzoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772442700Author Donald S HairFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143055891Author John Ralston SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275807464Author Justin Harvey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 189g

Short-listed for the 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice - first by force, and then years later by gulling the...

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...

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for...

The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period. Contours of the...

Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777695903Author Tom IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Library and Archives CanadaPublisher Library and Archives CanadaWeight(grams)...

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail.About the...