Canada category: 4109 books
Sir John Beverley Robinson
Bone and Sinew of the Compact
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.
The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario
Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national...
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue,...
The Civil War in Canada
An Impartial and Authentic Account
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This book relates the Civil War in Canada, with ample details of the immediate causes and progress thereof, from the commencement to its final conclusion; preceded by an introduction, containing a faithful exposition of the more remote causes of the present disastrous state of affairs in those colonies;...
The Canadian Commission
A Record of God’s Faithfulness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Victor Maxwell, President of Acre International (Acre Gospel Mission), was a missionary in Brazil for more than twenty-five years and has pastored churches in the UK and the US. Besides his Bible and evangelistic ministries in the UK and Brazil, he devotes much of his spare time to writing, with more...
Canadian Content
Culture and the Quest for Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores...
Trudeaumania
The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
A Hill-Times Best Book of the Year
Nearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of...
The University of Toronto
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and...
by George M. Wrong, H.H. Langton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
IN VOLUME VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM - Part I The Family Compact: A Chronicle Of The Rebellion In Upper Canada by W. Stewart Wallace - Part II The Patriotes of ‘37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion by Alfred D. Decelles - Part III The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of...
by Jonathan F. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The ineffable character of "Britishness" has been used, often enigmatically, to describe Canada's distinct cultural flavour within North America. This mysterious quality, writes award-winning writer Jonathan F. Vance, goes back to the early days of Canadian history, and consists of far more than the...
James FitzGibbon
Defender of Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1996
James FitzGibbon, Defender of Upper Canada, is the often poignant story of a poor man's rise to authority in the Upper Canada of the 1800s.
Born the son of a tenant farmer in Ireland, FitzGibbon's valour as a soldier brought him to the attention of those destined for power in the Canadas. Hero...
by J G A Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Creighton takes us through the first years of the famous police force in Northwest Canada. This short piece is richly illustrated with sketches by Frederic Remington.
Imperial Canada Inc.
Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Asks (and answers) the simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?
We'll Be Home for Christmas (storey 21 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
We are going to see Nan and Grandpa for Christmas! We are flying outside, I can hardly believe it! I have not seen my grandparents for three years. These are my paternal grandparents they live in Lethbridge Alberta, Canada; we live in Fort Good Hope N.W.T., also in Canada. It is 1,500 miles to travel...