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Reflecting on two different communities that have been displaced throughout history, this outline reveals the harsh treatment suffered by both the Mi'kmaq people and the African Nova Scotians. Highlighting how the Mi'kmaq were dispossessed of their lands...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981281957Author Mary Eggermont-MolenaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Memo BooksPublisher Memo BooksWeight(grams) 245g

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the...

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 9781556137112Author Andrew GallupFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920502761Author Heinz LehmannFormat HardbackPage Count 543Imprint Breakwater Books Ltd.Publisher Breakwater Books Ltd.Weight(grams) 1048gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773545578Author Alexandra KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Pagemaster PublishingPublisher Pagemaster PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563864Author Robert BothwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

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)...

Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city's English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551095813Author Wilfred GrenfellFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

This collection of articles provides a fresh look at the multi-faceted history of Upper Canada. As well as new perspectives on themes in economic, social and political history, essays are included on topics of concern to contemporary scholars such as...

An intimate portrait of "lived religion" as experienced by a middle-class family over three generations.Explores Victorian domestic religion through the daily and often turbulent lives of three generations of a prominent Protestant middle classAbout the...

A sweeping social history of the Armenian-Canadian experience that links the Old World with the New through a far-flung diaspora.A sweeping social history of the Armenian-Canadian experience that links the Old World with the New through a far-flung...

First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Quebec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and...

Volumes in the Canada's National Defence series present an annotated collection of government statements on defence policy and internal studies and reports prepared by senior military officers, defence officials, and consultants to governments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889117907Author Douglas L. BlandFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 706g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773532281Author G. Bruce DoernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams)...

Most Canadian universities were created in response to society's perceived need for men and women trained in the professions, or at least prepared to take up gainful employment that contributes to the national economy. In contrast, Bishop's was inspired...

David Ross McCord's interest in collecting archival material - historical manuscripts, his personal family papers, and correspondence concerning his search for artifacts - established the mandate for the subsequent acquisition of material into this...

Dechene's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her...

Volumes in the Canada's National Defence series present an annotated collection of government statements on defence policy and internal studies and reports prepared by senior military officers, defence officials, and consultants to governments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCAReviews"I found A Rich Broth thoroughly engrossing ... A deft mix of diplomatic insight and humour from a distinguished ex-ambassador who never takes himself...

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France...

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visitBook InformationISBN 9780773535916Author Francoise NoelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher...

He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five...

McGill came to Canada from Scotland in 1766 at the age of twenty-two. After ten years as a fur trader, he moved to Montreal and cofounded Todd, McGill & Co. He continued in the fur trade but also encouraged general trade and in later years pioneered the...

"A Long Way from Home" offers a comprehensive account of the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit in the mid-part of this century. The Inuit were victims not only of the epidemic but also of the Canadian government's shockingly slow response and lack of...

After an introductory chapter dealing with the conduct of external relations before 1909, the book examines three distinct phases of the department's development. Although the department had modest beginnings under the first under-secretary, Sir Joseph...

In 1946, with its own minister for the first time, the Department of External Affairs embarked on a period of impressive growth and assumed responsibility for a broader range of foreign policy issues than ever before. Under the expert guidance of Lester...

The openness of local residents enabled Louise Abbott to create a remarkable documentary study of this overlooked region of Quebec. In The Coast Way, Abbott focuses on the people of the Lower North Shore and the ways in which their lives have changed...

A case study of one marital breakdown that led to three court cases and three years of conflict in Parliament over a failed divorce Act and a successful Separation Act in the 1870s.

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence. This latest edition includes a foreword and appendices by editors Bruce Curtis, Jennifer Henderson, and Mythili Rajiva,...

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence. This latest edition includes a foreword and appendices by editors Bruce Curtis, Jennifer Henderson, and Mythili Rajiva,...