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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895493023Author Evelyn Sangster BensonFormat PaperbackImprint Westminster PublishingPublisher Westminster PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228834786Author Trevor GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989701249Author Alexandre PopovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint KersplebedebPublisher KersplebedebWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896219639Author Christie BenthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Natural Heritage BooksPublisher Natural Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 439g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958082775Author Barbara WyssFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Barbara WyssPublisher Barbara WyssWeight(grams) 141g

Historical Distillates examines the history of the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto from its beginnings in 1843, when it was housed in simple quarters in the Parliament Buildings on Front Street and had just one faculty member. During...

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...

The relationship between Canada and France has always been complicated by the Canadian federal government's relations with Quebec. In this first study of Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War, Olivier Courteaux demonstrates how Canada's...

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Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been "in on the ground floor" of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039132429Author Dr David S MulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354200014Author Lawrence Johnstone BurpeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540221841Author Dennis RizzoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772442700Author Donald S HairFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143055891Author John Ralston SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275807464Author Justin Harvey SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 189g

Short-listed for the 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice - first by force, and then years later by gulling the...

In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few closely related families established a utopian community in Canada's smallest province. Known officially as B. Compton Limited but described by a journalist in 1935 as "Prince Edward Island's...

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...

The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period. Contours of the...

Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of...

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)...

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...

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 9789358597059Author Francis ParkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 299g

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 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...

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...