Post-Confederation

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin, discovered by the Canadian research team of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228850762Author Ruth StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Montreal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869691Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election. A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of...

Chomsky takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He develops a forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417144Author Bill MorneauFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A National Bestseller!A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada's 150th birthday.Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians,...

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995266520Author Bob JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Page Two Books, Inc.Publisher Page Two Books, Inc.Weight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397762Author Lael MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book PrizeIn the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly-if at all-as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999140540Author Laura Churchill DukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Moose House PressPublisher Moose House PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555934Author Andrew LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the...

In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hell-Ship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179965Author Michael GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771003264Author John IbbitsonFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385663274Author D'arcy JenishFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at Spences Bridge,...

Rethinking Feminist History and Theory considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This vibrant collection, inspired...

How and why was universal health coverage implemented so early in a poverty-stricken province in Canada? Why was its design so faithfully replicated in the national standards that ultimately shaped Medicare across the rest of Canada? Seeking to answer...

How and why was universal health coverage implemented so early in a poverty-stricken province in Canada? Why was its design so faithfully replicated in the national standards that ultimately shaped Medicare across the rest of Canada? Seeking to answer...

Rethinking Feminist History and Theory considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This vibrant collection, inspired...

A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto's growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between river, valley, and city from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize 2015 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781990776601Author Margaret HorsfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint...

The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title illuminates the history of the enigmatic Vancouver Island treaties of the 1850s, offering new interpretations based on a fresh, exhaustive, and multidisciplinary critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780385720304Author Wayne JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor...

Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626199347Author Kelly MathewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the neighbourhood, from its origins to its decline,...

In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal's Square Mile chronicles the history of the neighbourhood, from its origins to its decline,...

Ethnic tensions had been rising in Toronto throughout the hot summer of 1933. Hitler had recently come to power in Germany and some residents of the eastern beaches neighbourhood had formed "Swastika Clubs" to protect their community from "undesirable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738168712Author Nicholas KinseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Cinegrafica Films & PublishingPublisher Cinegrafica Films & PublishingWeight(grams)...

In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have experienced a whirlwind of profound changes. This new edition brings together leading scholars to present a...

In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a...

Friends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the leading political and military historians in the country. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738572864Author Terry R. J. KeleherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738565613Author Bill CotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887559075Author Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential SchoolFormat PaperbackImprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba...