Post-Confederation

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion - the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered...

Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national...

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war...

A misunderstood and sometimes maligned figure, Vincent Massey was one of Canada's most influential cultural policy-makers and art patrons. Best known as Canada's first native-born Governor General, he chaired the landmark Royal Commission on National...

Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735278004Author John BoykoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

On one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada-the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772654601Author Richard A. RajalaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams)...

In 1948 the Quebec artist Paul-Emile Borduas published his famous manifesto Refus global-a plea on behalf of the powers of imagination and sensibility in society and a revolt against rationalization, mechanization, and other restraining influences,...

Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women's efforts to protect children's health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773370484Author Darren BernhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Great Plains Publications LtdPublisher Great Plains Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

When Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of middle-class respectability. In A Night at the Gardens, Russell Field shares how this new arena anticipated spectators by examining...

Mitigating the destruction and chaos wrought upon the civilian populations of northwest Europe during the latter years of the Second World War became the focus of Civil Affairs, a little-known branch of the First Canadian Army. Comprising a motley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771012938Author Conrad BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

The establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects for world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of...

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race...

The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quete (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the first...

This volume, a survey of the Canadian scene that urged various reforms, appeared shortly after the First World War. It was considered to be extremely radical in its proposals and implications at that time and had the distinction of being one of that rare...

A first-hand chronicle of Wolseley's expedition to end Riel's Red River Rebellion by a remarkable trio embedded on the mission. In the spring of 1870, two reporters set off from Toronto to cover one of the biggest stories in Canadian history: Colonel...

In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newsprint industry and the advent of Canadian corporate capitalism. In the first half of the twentieth century,...

In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-scale history of women at the University of Toronto. It is,...

Domestic Reforms tells a complicated story of family andwelfare law reform within the context of British Columbia'stransformation from a British colonial enclave to a white settlerCanadian province. It inherited a British legal system that grantedmarried...

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from...

When Mackenzie King went to the San Francisco Conference he told the Commons that Canada had played its part in winning the war and it was now its duty to play a part in 'the shaping of peace.' This is a history and analysis of Canadian participation in...

An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers histories and...

In 1944, the people of Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America. Dream No Little Dreams is the biography of that government, led by the great Tommy Douglas of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF, later the New...

In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771024986Author Conrad BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551096704Author Janet KitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143182894Author Tim CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551098951Author John BoileauFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

One of the great wilderness adventures of the last century.One of the great wilderness adventures of the last century.About the AuthorJames West Davidson is a historian living in the Hudson Valley, New York. He is the co-author of American Nation and The...

The year was 1910 and signs of progress were in the air. That June, a new steam ferry for the Toronto Island Company was launched and christened the Trillium. Only briefly mentioned in the local dailies at the time, the double-end, side-padded island...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551098425Author Michael J BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441758Author L M MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437651Author Charlotte GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990644528Author David W GrebstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Double Dagger BooksPublisher Double Dagger BooksWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and...