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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886292058Author David Chalmer ReeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

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...

"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...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228825760Author Robert RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228828518Author Robert RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550357219Author Frances StanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint On the Mark PressPublisher On the Mark PressWeight(grams) 213g

Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada. Various engagements between Indigenous peoples and the state are emphasized and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989417843Author Ingeborg MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Boulder BooksPublisher Boulder BooksWeight(grams) 699g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553657262Author Hugh BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Publisher Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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...

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777245047Author Hammerson PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Hammerson PetersPublisher Hammerson PetersWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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