Canada category: 4109 books
The Sash Canada Wore
A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. Beginning in 1800, the Order grew steadily in many parts of the country during the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in the early part of the twentieth century. Since then, with the changes in Canadian society, the...
by D. Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Following Queen Elizabeth II's historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada and the roles of the queen, governor general, and lieutenant governor. Author D. Michael Jackson traces the story of the monarchy and the Crown and shows how they are...
Canadian Nuclear Weapons
The Untold Story of Canada's Cold War Arsenal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
"We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons."
Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978
From 1963...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1933
Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally...
In Duty Bound
Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In Duty Bound is an unprecedented look at Upper Canada's forgotten people and the ways in which their lives were by necessity bound in a mutual relationship of duty and obligation to the Upper Canadian state. This neglected area of Canada's history has been preserved, in part, in the form of personal...
Canada and the Age of Conflict
Volume 2: 1921-1948, The Mackenzie King Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume completes his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world.
The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity,...
Frontier and Metropolis
Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland...
Jean Monnet and Canada
Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England,...
Mental Disorder in Canada
An Epidemiological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading...
Powering Up Canada
The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods. Powering Up Canada...
Your Country, My Country
A Unified History of the United States and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could...
by Lillian F. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
From 1763 to 1867 the land system of Upper Canada was one of the most important questions in the development of the new country. This detailed study of the subject examines Great Britain's plans for Canada after the conquest, the problems created by the royal "promise" of land to the loyalists,...
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Port Hope Simpson Mysteries,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Oral History Evidence and Interpretation
Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries Vol 2
by
Llewelyn Pritchard
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard
Read about the original Oral History interview with Mrs. Kathleen...
Imperial Irish
Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Between 1914 and 1918, many Irish Catholics in Canada found themselves in a vulnerable position. Not only was the Great War slaughtering millions, but tension and violence was mounting in Ireland over the question of independence from Britain and Home Rule. For Canada’s Irish Catholics, thwarting Prussian...