Canada category: 4109 books
Blood Must Tell
Debating race and identity in the Canadian House of Commons, 1880-1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Surveying more than four decades of debates in Canada’s House of Commons around the turn of the twentieth century, Blood Must Tell shows that biologically determinist race-thinking was never accepted by its elected members as unassailable truth. Although racist ideas were habitually and openly articulated...
The Donut
A Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2008
In Canada, the donut is often thought of as the unofficial national food. Donuts are sold at every intersection and rest stop, celebrated in song and story as symbols of Canadian identity, and one chain in particular, Tim Horton's, has become a veritable icon with over 2500 shops across the country....
Making Medicare
New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This...
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat
Canada’s Secret Electronic Air War
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic...
by John Due
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959. It was never a major industry but its role in the transition of Canadian land transportation from almost sole reliance on the steam railroad to dominance of the motor vehicle should not be overlooked. Professor...
Brokering Belonging
Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles...
More Trails, More Tales
Exploring Canada's Travel Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
An entertaining book of trivia, anecdotes, and observations about heritage travel in Canada.
Inspired by and drawing on Canadian exploration, Bob Henderson’s newest book, More Trails, More Tales, strikes a balance with travel literature, history, geography, anthropology, literature, and philosophy....
Crucible of Flames
Canada's War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the fledgling United States declared war, former president Thomas Jefferson famously boasted that “the conquest of Canada” would be “a mere matter of marching.” It became instead a bitter, nasty affair pitting brother against brother, cousin against cousin, as British regulars joined with...
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
Everyday Life in Upper Canada, 1812–1814
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst explores the web of human relationships that developed in Upper Canada following the American Revolution, in the years leading up to the War of 1812, and during the conflict that raged for two years between the young United States and Britain, its former...
Redcoated Ploughboys
The Volunteer Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada, 1813-1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
In 1812, the future of British North America hung in the balance as the United States declared war with the avowed goal of conquering the Canadas and removing British influence from the continent forever.
In response, a corps of men, drawn from every walk of life and social stratum of Upper...
American Attempt to Take Canada
War of 1812 - 1814
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The War of 1812 - 1814 as it happened on upper Lake Huron. The start of the war was a bloodless offence against Mackinac Island, Michigan. Then, the pressure was on the Canadians to defend this island, thier interests in the vicinity, and the borders of Canada.
Great Military Leaders
Charismatic Canadian Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"I never saw his equal for true grit... He lay all day with his body torn and bleeding, and it was only at night when the stretcher bearers could approach the trench to get out the wounded that he was carried away, and then he went last." The history of Canada is filled with charismatic...
Loyalists and Layabouts
The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country.
The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of...
Prairie People
A Celebration of My Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apart
The prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere....