Pre-Confederation

The myth of the Mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter...

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to...

The Red River Colony was the Hudson's Bay Company's first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples' "troublesome" autonomy and curtain the company's dependency on their...

This book will appeal to students and scholars of indigenous studies, colonialism and empire, Christian missions, and Canadian and African history.Book InformationISBN 9780774822800Author Tolly BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of...

This book will appeal to students and scholars of indigenous studies, colonialism and empire, Christian missions, and Canadian and African history.Book InformationISBN 9780774822794Author Tolly BradfordFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint University of...

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds - Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white - negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle...

Printing presses were instrumental in creating and upholding a sense of community during the eighteenth century. While the importance of print in the development of colonial America and the nascent United States is well-established, Imprinting Britain...

The Enlightenment Atlantic was awash in deep feelings. People expressed the ardour of patriots, the homesickness of migrants, the fear of slave revolts, the ecstasy of revivals, the anger of mobs, the grief of wartime, the disorientation of refugees, and...

Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and...

This study is an investigation of the arrival, planting, and expansion of the Church of England in Loyalist New Brunswick. The obstacles encountered in setting up missions in the frontier both before and after the arrival of Bishop Charles Inglis are...

Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre is inspired by the work of archaeologist Jean-Pierre Chrestien (1949-2007), who worked hand-in-glove with a generation of researchers in helping to unearth unexpected and always interesting aspects of New France...

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds - Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white - negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle...

Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sportand imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives fromcultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyzethe themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature...

"Furs is what brings us," remarked an early trader in the Oregon Country, adding, however, that "the difficulty of getting the necessary supplies will continue to operate against it," located as it was, "on the worst side of the...

A study of "leaving home" and the experiences of British and Irish migrants as they made their way to Upper Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780773532656Author Elizabeth Jane ErringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint McGill-Queen's University...

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state...

In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company's interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a "household"...

In 1957 after a century of scathing debates and threats of provincial separation Ottawa finally tackled the dangerous fiscal inequalities among its richer and poorer provinces. Equalization grants allowed the poorer provinces to provide relatively equal...

Most Canadians assume they live under some form of democracy. Yet confusion about the meaning of the word and the limits of the people's power obscures a deeper understanding. Constant Struggle looks for the democratic impulse in Canada's past to...

Being an Irish man was a consistent, contentious issue in the Canadas. The aim of this book is to provide the first gendered examination of male Irish migration to Upper and Lower Canada within the broader contexts of negative stereotypes about Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920663790Author Peter JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Horsdal & Schubart PublishersPublisher Horsdal & Schubart PublishersWeight(grams)...

A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for its...

Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New Brunswick. Aboriginal people used this route as a major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894974967Author Rich MoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894384513Author Jan PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their determination to find home.Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn't fully aware of his family's Acadian roots -- until a chance...

The first half of the nineteenth century brought two major revolutions, the British Industrial Revolution and the French political revolution, which devastatingly heralded the modern world. In Newfoundland, an important strategic outpost island within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772030235Author Anthony DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures. Rare paintings, drawings, maps and archival photographs complement her impeccable research and lively text. Superior Rendezvous-Place encompasses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926936925Author Irene Ternier GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Being an Irish man was a consistent, contentious issue in the Canadas. The aim of this book is to provide the first gendered examination of male Irish migration to Upper and Lower Canada within the broader contexts of negative stereotypes about Irish...

The Red River Colony was the Hudson's Bay Company's first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples' "troublesome" autonomy and better control their labour. In this critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771060960Author Christopher MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the...

This book will appeal to scholars interested in Canadian history, especially of Quebec and British Columbia; in American history, especially of the West, and of Oregon, Washington, and Montana; in indigenous history, especially of indigenous women, metis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102191Author Andrew HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sportand imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives fromcultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyzethe themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature...

While some scholars have focused on various aspects of the denominational origins of the education system, and others have revealed the influence of religion on the electoral results of the pre-1864 period, the complete story has never been told. In...

Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral...

The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the heartland of French colonial society have been thoroughly outlined by...