Canada category: 4109 books
by Deirdre Kessler, Douglas Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In mid-June 1864, the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) was experiencing what contemporaries call “political deadlock”: no political party could hold a majority in the Assembly. The past fifteen years had seen twelve different governments, and few important laws were passed. As a result,...
by Charles Demers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs...
The Loyal Atlantic
Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted...
Careless at Work
Selected Canadian historical studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1996
This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada’s best-known historians....
To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation
Americans and Canadians Transported to Tasmania in the 1840S
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
One of American historys lost stories, To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation is the fascinating account of American and Canadian convicts exiled to an Australian penal colony. In 1837 an armed rebellion at Toronto against the colonial administration of British Canada spilled across the border, and...
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The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Two: 1948-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry...
by R.B. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800 to settle in Glengarry County. This book deals...
Home Children Bundle
The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s...
Denny's Trek: A Mountie's Memoir of the March West
A Mountie's Memoir of the March West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquests and controversy. He and his comrades played key roles in the taming of Canada's wild and woolly west, and in this compilation of selected writings from his books...
by John Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
This short piece describes the trip through the wilderness with Indian guides along the route of the as yet unbuilt Canadian railway to the pacific. Illustrated.
The Secret History of Soldiers
How Canadians Survived the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical...
A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business
Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada's governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown's largest colony against the threat of Franco-American invasion, while assisting...
The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928
The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their...
A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812
New Brunswick and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With...