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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802060709Author William L. MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Telling a people's passionate story, this volume profiles how the Jewish community has made its mark on Quebec for more than two centuries. Edward Hillel's magnificent photographs illustrate the text by two noted authorities on the subject.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977103819Author Joy Frisch-SchmollFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone Press, IncorporatedPublisher Capstone Press, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759397Author Jack BoudreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 396g

In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century. In Law,...

One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy stereotypes of oil-spoiled, beef-eating, bible-thumping rednecks devoid of class or culture. Through essay,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888399724Author Lorraine HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the...

Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. "On All Frontiers" is a comprehensive history of Canadian...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment or the history of women.Book InformationISBN 9780774838870Author Ted McCoyFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of...

Traces how Canada's colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate changeIncludes over 200 photographs, maps, figures, and sidebar discussions on key figures,...

Frontier and pioneer societies provide numerous unexplored avenues of social history. Game in the Garden identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to...

The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon...

First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps,...

Gael Force provides a wealth of interesting facts and engaging anecdotes as well as profiles and photographs of the coaches, captains, and players. Merv Daub takes the reader through a century of Queen's football, from the first "Dominion"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771072406Author Andre PratteFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 425g

It is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries' rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why...

The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though...

Spanning the first one hundred years of the newspaper (1849-1950), London Free Press: From the Vault is chock full of photographs from the London Free Press archives, with fascinating and fun chapter introductions by local historian Jennifer Grainger and...

The World Today Series: Canada is an annually updated presentation of Canada. It provides the reader an in-depth look at the country's culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888647290Author Todd BabiakFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams)...

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and...

Bishop William Carpenter Bompas was a difficult man, cantankerous, stubborn, and more than a little eccentric. He carried on his shoulders the deep spirituality of his own faith, the assumptions of his background, and the cultural aggressiveness of the...

Michael Nolan follows the evolution of CTV from a group of small independent television stations across Canada to the powerful network it is today. He chronicles the boardroom struggles within the network as strong personalities clashed over economic and...

Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that...

Ken Dryden moves from the personal to the global in setting forth a resolution oriented vision of Canada's role in the 21st century. By drawing upon his own diverse experience, Ken Dryden addresses the question 'What is Canada?'. Using images and...

Montreal, City of Water will interest scholars and students of urban environmental history, urbanization, and urban planning, particularly those with a focus on water history and urban rivers. Historians of Montreal and the St. Lawrence River region will...

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...

Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in "a fit of absence of mind." Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in...

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biographical study of a man who played a key role in the cataclysmic events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An...

This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces. A fundamental...

The federal Department of Justice was established by John A. Macdonald as part of the Conservative party's program for reform of the parliamentary system following Confederation. Among other things, it was charged with establishing national institutions...

When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized...

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment or the history of women.Book InformationISBN 9780774838887Author Ted McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of...

She argues that nationalism is not one idea but a "relationship of voices, speaking from varying levels of political and social power, and to varying audiences." The Italian understanding of what it means to belong to Canada does not require...

Details the black experience in Montreal during these eighty-odd yearsBook InformationISBN 9780773527355Author Frank MackeyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 420g

Once a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision to transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh reality, violent feuds and factional strife, corrupt and ineffective leaders, and youths involved in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553390183Author Michael MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 496g

For centuries Montreal reigned as Canada's most beguiling city. Inspired by the pages of the Gazette, Canada's oldest daily newspaper (founded in 1778), here are seventy-five true tales to inspire, amuse, horrify and captivate. Stories include humourist...

The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and...