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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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480033603Author J G BourinotFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Many studies have concluded that the effects of early industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely negative. Robert B. Kristofferson demonstrates, however, that in at least one area this was not the case. Craft Capitalism focuses on...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781707234974Author Dr Lew DeitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798727898826Author Curtis WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each country's attitudes to war and peace match the realities? In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is...

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 9783337270612Author James P TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358597059Author Francis ParkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781693396649Author Kevin M McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispossessed, sent to incarceration sites, and dispersed across Canada. Over 4,000 were deported to Japan...

Ontario's rich and diverse past provides many vivid narratives for writers and historians, and since 1903, the Archives of Ontario has been the central repository for the province's history. With a collection of over 3.5 million photographs, 35 000 maps,...

In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300th anniversary - the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946344045Author Cheryl McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Purple PenworksPublisher Purple PenworksWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783337186593Author James DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783337194826Author Frederic NichollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775263319Author Stephen J WellumFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint H&e PublishingPublisher H&e PublishingWeight(grams) 191g

For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled...

They were the men who led our nation in war and peace. In world wars, they were the steady hands guiding our forces to victory; in peacekeeping, they helped to establish and preserve order. Over the years they have helped the Canadian Forces to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553657316Author Marie WaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Douglas & McIntyre Publishing GroupPublisher Douglas & McIntyre Publishing...

Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared "I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish." He was only the latest in a long line of...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings...

In the early part of this century the mother was the educator and moral centre of the Canadian household. Between the onset of the First World War and the development of the modern social security state in the 1940s, however, an ideological shift took...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539538158Author Roderick BennsFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis,...

The beginning of Owen Sound can be traced to the 1840 historical meeting, in a small forest clearing, between surveyor Charles Rankin and land agent John Telfer. Owen Sound: The Port City begins with the Native Peoples of the area and moves through...

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 9781508504504Author Agnes C LautFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535105538Author Sivan Lev-EyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275798892Author Justin Harvey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 1134g

The Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest. After the Famine investigates the subsequent emigration of many...

Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and...

In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members...

It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the Canadian movement, which emerged around 1977 and ended around 1997 with...

Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has been a part of the arts scene in Toronto for eighty years. Richard Warren, the orchestra's archivist since 1976, uncovers taped interviews and other documentation of the orchestra's musicians, visiting artists, music...

Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War...

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of...

Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War, made an arduous journey through...