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This book traces the journey taken by the Canadian Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions / Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM), from its establishment in Manitoba in 1898 to 2008, when the congregation as a whole redefined its...

The world has undergone a revolution in assisted reproduction, as processes such as in vitro fertilization, embryonic screening, and surrogacy have become commonplace. Yet when governments attempt to regulate this field, they have not always been...

Canada's social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the western hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists. Most narratives of the relationships between North America and the emerging markets of the...

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical...

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...

This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or...

This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization that works on a national scale in Canada. The story of how this group started with a few volunteers in 1962 to become a charity that now manages 2.2 million...

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes's name is synonymous...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592479Author Frank a KunzFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598860Author David GaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652507Author Carol WiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 622Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 975g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802063885Author Eugene A ForseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 894g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802015792Author Herbert Karl KalbfleischFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto...

Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada's oldest permanent marine research institution. A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598433Author Jean-Charles FalardeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592028Author Richard A JarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782760307490Author Geoffrey EwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa PressWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669761Author Susan C BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598495Author Charles R FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591885Author Charles W HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771513067Author Michael LaylandFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood Editions

A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton's sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598723Author Edith FowkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487599386Author Edwin C GuilletFormat PaperbackPage Count 566Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 780g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591663Author J MacKay HitsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591618Author George F HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639751Author C A DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 544g

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...

Elora: The Early History of Elora and Vicinity provides little-known details about the settlement and development of the Elora area in southern Ontario from the earliest settler in 1817. Then, as now, people were drawn to the Elora Gorge and the rocky...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802064158Author David J BercusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598556Author Edith G FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592448Author John KosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 177g

The Morrin Centre is at the heart of Quebec City's history. It once housed Quebec's common jail, the Presbyterian-run Morrin College, and the scholarly activities of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Today, it is home to the city's main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621502Author Tom HawthornFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 576g

Lori Chambers' fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province’s population and the German language was spoken in businesses,...

From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and...

In the recent campaign led by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to gain redress for compatriots interned during the Second World War, leaders claimed that the Canadian state had waged a 'war against ethnicity.' Their version of history, argue...