Canada category: 4109 books
Propaganda and Persuasion
The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organized by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. The CSFS aimed its message at progressive Canadians, hoping to convince them that the USSR was an egalitarian and enlightened state. Attempting...
Hurrah Revolutionaries
The Polish Canadian Communist Movement, 1918-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walęsa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this...
by Carl Benn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto.
Twenty years later, the Fort was the scene of the bloody Battle of York in which the famous American...
Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada’s Provinces and Territories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada’s provinces and territories, but what difference – if any – has their rise to the top made? Have they changed the content, tone, or style of political debate? What role has gender played in their triumph and defeat?
In...
Rome in Canada
The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
In the three decades after Confederation, an aggressive Anglo-Saxon nationalism struggled to imprint its cultural model on the emerging Canadian state. It was countered by a defensive French-Canadian nationalism chiefly articulated by a majority within the Roman Catholic clergy. In this study Roberto...
Immigrant and Migrant Workers Organizing in Canada and the United States
Casework and Campaigns in a Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Across Canada and the United States, immigrant workers face important obstacles at work and in the broader society, whether their immigration status is temporary, permanent, or nonexistent. Hyper-precarious workers of all status groups, and their allies in unions and worker centers, are organizing...
Canada's Voice
The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation...
The Art of Nation-Building
Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300th anniversary – the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be surpassed until the centennial of 1967. The climax...
Working towards Equity
Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates...
by A.I. Silver
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At Confederation, most French Canadians felt their homeland was Quebec; they supported the new arrangement because it separated Quebec from Ontario, creating an autonomous French-Canadian province loosely associated with the others. Unaware of other French-Canadian groups in British North America,...
A British Home Child in Canada 2-Book Bundle
Marjorie Her War Years / Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
The biography of a British girl, split from her family by the British child migration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada.
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry — Book #1
In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near...
Airplane School
First Adventure to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
An incredible adventure where parents and kids will learn about amazing cultures around the world alongside this class of 8 awesome, super stylish girls, each from a different beautiful country, including Canada, the US, the UAE, China, Kenya, India, France and Brazil!
Your kids will relate...
Riding to the Rescue
The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature of this transformation...
by Roger Sarty, Doug Knight
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's defences, from the earliest log palisades to the bunkers, gun...