Canada category: 4109 books
The Aquatic Explorers
A History of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
In 1898 a group of scientists, working without pay, often under hazardous conditions with only the most primitive equipment, began a systematic study of the fishes in Canada's inland and marine waters. The team operated under the aegis of a board of management which was later to evolve into the Fisheries...
Reaction and Reform
The Politics of the Conservative Party under R.B. Bennett, 1927-1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
When R.B. Bennett assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 1926, he inherited a party out of step with a modernizing Canada. Three years later, in the early days of the Depression, he led the Tories to power with a mandate to bring back prosperity. Larry A. Glassford explores...
No Free Man
Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Approximately 8,000 Canadian civilians were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic ties to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other enemy nations. Although not as well-known as the later internments of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, these incarcerations played a crucial...
by Susie Hoeller
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Susie Yovic Hoeller tells her story about growing up on the West Island of Montreal when the city was the cosmopolitan jewel of Canada. In 1963, as a nine-year-old girl, she posed as a boy to play hockey in an organized league. The same year, she underwent open heart surgery performed by a young doctor...
Rocks, Ridges, and Rivers
Geological Wonders of Banff, Yoho, and Jasper National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Allow award-winning geologist Dale Leckie to guide you through one of Canada’s most amazing unesco World Heritage Sites – the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. In Rocks, Ridges, and Rivers, Leckie tells the dramatic story of the Rockies, its rivers and valleys, glaciers and hot springs, caves and...
Canada's Big House
The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "...[shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not...
Educating the Neglected Majority
The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell’s pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada’s most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded...
by Eugene Forsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
We are apt to think of labour unions as a feature of a relatively advanced industrial society. It comes as a surprise to many to learn how long ago in Canadian history they actually appeared. Unions already existed in the predominantly rural British North America of the early nineteenth century. There...
Kitchener
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1983
The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener was Berlin, “Canada’s German capital.” Over two-thirds of the residents were of German origin;...
by Alan G. Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Regional disparities in income have been an important part of the growth of experience of most nation states. Canada is no exception. In a large country, thinly populated and having a wide diversity of resources, cultures, and locational advantages, it is only natural to expect the existence of dissimilar...
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68
The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Gunboats on the Great Lakes tells the story of the three British gunboats which patrolled the Great Lakes as the politicians finalized the Confederation deal, and Irish nationalists recruited Civil War veterans and staged armed raids on Canada. The Fenians, a secret society of Irish immigrants in...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
View From the Murney Tower
Salem Bland, the Late-Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel...
Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments
Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
War crimes prosecutions create unique difficulties as civilian standards of law are applied to the extraordinary circumstances of war. Governments are often surprisingly hesitant to pursue war criminals. Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of such issues in Casual Slaughters and Accidental...