Canada category: 4109 books
The Deadly Sea
Life and Death on the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Fishing is the most dangerous occupation in the world: in Atlantic Canada, an average of one person dies every month while working at sea. The Deadly Sea by bestselling author Jim Wellman contains twenty-five stories about men and women who work in the Atlantic Canadian fishing industry, ranging from...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
• Fleck is a noted scholar of Thoreau and has presented at the Thoreau Institute. • Fascinating account of Thoreau’s only international travel experience to Quebec in 1850. • Unlike the many facsimile reproductions available, this edition features a modern design that enhances readability. • Part of the Literary Naturalist Series and features a new foreword.
Jobs and Justice
Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that,...
Double Trap
The Last Public Hanging in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2005
A dozen years before the Black Donnellys were butchered at Lucan, Ontario, another murderous rampage took place a few miles away. On June 6, 1868, three men robbed and killed a rich farmer, his wife, and her unborn child. They concocted an alibi, stuck to it, and almost got off. In fact, two of them...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 1–5
Emma Albani / Emily Carr / George Grant / Jacques Plante / John Diefenbaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera singer from Quebec who became a diva of the musical world; Emily Carr, the artist famous for capturing...
Canadian Literary Bundle
Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy / Robertson Davies / Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer...
Man Proposes, God Disposes
Recollections of a French Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in...
Divided Loyalties
The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2010
The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience...
Sir Edmund Head
A Scholarly Governor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
A century ago, in 1854, Sir Edmund Head became governor general of Canada. His earlier career as Oxford don, chief Poor Law commissioner during the "hungry forties," and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, had prepared him to succeed Lord Elgin in this senior post in the British colonial...
To Go Upon Discovery
James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook's arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific. In between these dates, we witness the siege of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' War, where Cook made his almost accidental discovery of the surveying techniques...
by Barry L. Strayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The Honourable Barry L. Strayer’s political memoir on Canadian constitutional reform 1960-1982.
by Dimitry Anastakis, Penny Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First...
Conflict and Compromise
Post-Confederation Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been...
by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1916. Part of the Chronicles of Canada series. The book begins: For seven years the colony which Champlain founded at the rock of Quebec lived without priests. Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders. But out...