Canada category: 4109 books
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
The history of woman suffrage in Canada has been largely ignored in the standard accounts of our past and has attracted little attention–at least until recently–from research students. The major exception is Catherine Cleverdon's study. Written nearly a quarter of a century ago, it remains the...
First Nations, First Thoughts
The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Countless books and articles have traced the impact of colonialism and public policy on Canada's First Nations, but few have explored the impact of Aboriginal thought on public discourse and policy development in Canada. First Nations, First Thoughts brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars...
by Stillman Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Covering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Southern Labrador and Cape Breton Island, this travel guide to the Atlantic Provinces is the most comprehensive on the market. It takes in everything, from the Fundy Coast and the Acadian Peninsula to the fjords of Gros Morne...
by D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close...
by Fred Rosser, Stuart Ivison
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower Canada—Loyalists, "late" Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekers—living in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary associations in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York State sent missionary preachers in the...
Canada Investigates Industrialism
The Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital, 1889 (Abridged)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
In the 1880s Canadians began to cope with the meaning of their emerging industrial society. During that decade the federal government first investigated industrial conditions and provincial governments passed Canada's first factory legislation. The same period saw the resurgence of an articulate and...
by Michael D. Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Franklin, Oops, Mud & Cupcake is an engaging account of four canoe trips in northern Canada written by outdoor author and adventurer Michael D. Pitt. Michael's intimate writing style brings you "into the canoe" as he and his wife Kathleen discover the strength, challenges and self-reliance that...
Writing Unemployment
Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated...
by Stephen Roney
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Everything you think you know about Canada's "First Nations" is probably wrong:
First Nations are not aboriginal or indigenous.
Most Canadians have Indian ancestry; most Canadian Indians have European ancestry. The Indians are us--all of us.
Life before contact...
Lock, Stock, and Icebergs
A History of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said “Ron that’s ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs.” A simple statement, it summed up a hundred years of official policy. Since...
The Bunkhouse Man
Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology,...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Canada, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Niagara Falls,...
The Order of Canada
Genesis of an Honours System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The order recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements, dedication, and service to the country. It is a product of national identity, politics, and history, and includes such individuals as Atom Egoyan, Joseph Boyden,...
by Wayne Norton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Women on Ice is the first book to focus upon the vibrant world of women's ice hockey in western Canada during the First World War and through the 1920s. The Vancouver Amazons were one of the most important teams during this perod. Their championship laurels and their association with hockey's famous...