Canada category: 4109 books
The Prairie West to 1905
A Canadian Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the prairie region was transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the central government acquired control over a territory that had a 200-year history of economic and cultural interchange between Indians mixed-bloods, and whites. The federal government was determined to administer the...
by Cristina Rebiere
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Faim de Nature et d'Authenticité?
Bienvenue au Canada, découvrez la Province de Québec!
Vous voulez vous étonner devant des paysages époustouflants et faire partie de cette beauté? Vous aimez la nature et les animaux?
Alors n'hésitez plus: le Canada est pour vous!
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Perogies and Politics
Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.
For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction...
The Valiant Nellie McClung
Collected Columns by Canada's Most Famous Suffragist
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Although her name today is synonymous with the women’s suffrage movement in Canada, Nellie McClung’s long and varied career covered several fields—from social activist to elected politician, from novelist to journalist. McClung was instrumental in Canadian women gaining the right to vote before...
by Ulysses Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Here's a practical tool to help you read a French-Canadian menu. Wherever you travel in French Canada, this guide will make your meals more enjoyable; it will help you discover the local cuisine and satisfy all your culinary cravings. This guide contains all the common words and phrases that are used...
by Emily Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Calgary is beautifully situated in the Great Plains with the impressive Canadian Rockies looming in the distance. Calgary is the closest major city to Banff National Park and Lake Louise. It lies 185 miles south of Edmonton and 600 miles northeast of Vancouver.
To the Past
History Education, Public Memory, and Citizenship in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Recent years have witnessed a breakdown in consensus about what history should be taught within Canadian schools; there is now a heightened awareness of the political nature of deciding whose history is, or should be, included in social studies and history classrooms. Meanwhile, as educators are debating...
The Queen at the Council Fire
The Treaty of Niagara, Reconciliation, and the Dignified Crown in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara — an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples. This treaty,...
Conflicting Visions
Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful purposes. In the aftermath, relations between the two nations cooled...
Creeping Conformity
How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Creeping Conformity, the first history of suburbanization in Canada, provides a geographical perspective – both physical and social – on Canada's suburban past. Shaped by internal and external migration, decentralization of employment, and increased use of the streetcar and then the automobile,...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Saskatchewan (Canada) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Cautious Beginnings
Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
When the Second World War began, Canada had no foreign intelligence capacity. Its political leaders had concluded that a clandestine service was not necessary to meet the nation's intelligence requirements. Yet Kurt F. Jensen argues that the country was a more active intelligence partner in the wartime...
Violence, Order, and Unrest
A History of British North America, 1749–1876
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters...
Stanley Barracks
Toronto's Military Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Winner of the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
Stanley Barracks begins with the construction in 1840-41 of the new facility that replaced the then decaying Fort York Barracks. The book recounts the background of the last facility operated by the British military in Toronto and how Canada’s...