Canada category: 4109 books
by Keith D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and...
by Wayne C. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present continues to provide the reader an in-depth look at the country’s culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this...
by Kenneth Clair MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
As the nineteenth century was drawing to a close, several significant social shifts were occurring concurrently in Canada. One of the most significant changes that affected the entire country, was the opening of the Western territories to settlement, and the subsequent development of the provinces Manitoba,...
Working in Steel
The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian...
The Quebec Conference of 1864
Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach. The Quebec Conference of...
The Art of the Possible
Government and Foreign Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This study, admirable in the logic of its organization and in the freshness of its style, provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy. It analyses carefully and vividly the way in which the prime minister and members of his...
Where Once They Stood
Newfoundland's Rocky Road towards Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent,...
by Donald W. Gullett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Beginning with the earliest records available describing the dental health of the Indians before the arrival of European settlers, Dr Gullett gives a detailed and carefully documented history of dentistry in Canada. He describes the unscrupulous tramp dentists who roamed the countryside years ago...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Canada's four easternmost provinces, while richly diverse in character and history, share many elements of their political and economic experience within Confederation. In this volume thirteen leading historians explore the shifting tides of Atlantic Canada's history, beginning with the union of Nova...
by Stillman Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Focussing primarily on Canada's New Brunswick province, the parks, the trails, what to see, what to do, this is drawn from our much larger guide to all the Atlantic Provinces. Hiking, trout and salmon fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, cycling, kayaking, exploring, puffin spotting � discover all these...
Rough Work
Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882.
Ruth Bleasdale’s fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers...
The Lamb and the Tiger
From Peacekeepers to Peacewarriors in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This book focuses on the broad implications of the transformation of Canada from a peacekeeping to a war-making nation during the Conservative Party’s recent decade in power. Funds were poured into the Canadian Forces, and a newly militarized nation found itself entrenched in conflicts around the...
Roads to Confederation
The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the...
by David Farr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period.