Canada category: 4109 books
Moose Pastures and Mergers
The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets...
Nature, Place, and Story
Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of a bigger story: the occupation and transformation of nature into nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there...
Among the Forest Trees or, A Book of Facts and Incidents of Pioneer Life in Upper Canada
Arranged in the Form of a Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A book of pioneer life in Upper Canada, arranged in the form of a story. The author spent five-sevenths of his life among the pioneer settlers of Western Canada. The incidents in the story are taken from the active life of the pioneers of Western Ontario, among whom the author grew up. A keen observer,...
by William Wilfred Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
A country of dry frost in winter, and of fruitful heat in summer, with numerous delightful climates in between—this is the rising nation, Canada. And of a similar strange mixture are its people, at once the most hard-working and yet most hopeful of any people upon earth, in the mind of him who deeply...
The Land of Open Doors
Being Letters from Western Canada 1911-1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
The letters collected in this volume preserve the vivid and thoughtful impressions of a young man who came to western Canada in the early twentieth century. J. Burgon Bickersteth joined the Anglican mission in Edmonton a year after its establishment in 1910. As a lay missionary he travelled in the...
Royal Spectacle
The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In 1860, Queen Victoria sent her eighteen-year-old son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on a goodwill mission to Canada and the United States. The young heir-apparent (later King Edward VII) had not yet gained his reputation as a fashion setter and rake, but he nevertheless attracted enormous crowds...
Mon Permis Vacances-Travail au Canada
Un An à Vancouver
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Le permis vacances-travail, en abrégé le PVT, est un sésame espéré par plus de 20 000 jeunes français âgés de 18 à 35 ans, pour le Canada. Certains médias ont même parlé de 60 000 aspirants... c'est dire s'il a du succès ! Seulement 6 000 d’entre eux environ l’obtiendront chaque année....
by Philip Massolin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
In this well-researched book, Philip Massolin takes a fascinating look at the forces of modernization that swept through English Canada, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Victorian values - agrarian, religious - and the adherence to a rigid set of philosophical and moral codes were being...
by Michel Ducharme
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad...
Al Rashid Mosque
Building Canadian Muslim Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Front Flap: Forty years ago, as a young scholar in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Al Rashid’s Muslims welcomed my queries, tolerated my ignorance, and joyfully opened their homes and their hearts. —Earle H. Waugh Back Flap: Earle H. Waugh has studied Islam in Canada and the Middle...
Contours of the Nation
Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not solely a medical condition to be managed. In Canada, the discourse on obesity emerged during a time of social upheaval in the postwar period.
Contours of the Nation is the first book which historically...
Du littoral à la mer
Histoire officielle de la Marine royale du Canada, 1867–1939, Volume I
Language: French
Release Date: January 14, 2011
La création de la Marine royale du Canada (MRC) en 1910 et ses premières années d’existence ont été marquées par un débat politique quant à la nécessité d’un service naval au Canada. Du littoral à la mer, le premier d’une série de trois volumes relatant l’histoire officielle de...
How Silent Were the Churches?
Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Winner of the 1997 Jewish Book Committee award for scholarship on a Canadian Jewish subject.
Ever since Abella and Troper (None Is too Many, 1982) exposed the anti-Semitism behind Canada’s refusal to allow Jewish escapees from the Third Reich to immigrate, the Canadian churches have been...
by Thomas Chapais
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Part of the Chronicles of Canada series. First published in 1914. According to Wikipedia: "Jean Talon, Count d'Orsainville (January 8, 1626 November 23, 1694) was the first Intendant of New France after Louis Robert (who was Intendant from 1663 to 1665 but never came to New France). Talon was appointed...