Canada category: 4109 books
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver’s “hobo jungle.” The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. The organization of life was immediate...
Big Tent Politics
The Liberal Party’s Long Mastery of Canada’s Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Liberal Party of Canada is one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It dominated Canadian politics for a century, practising an inclusive style of “big tent” politics that allowed it to fend off opponents on both the left and right. How did it do this? What kind of party...
Escape from the Staple Trap
Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting...
Metamorphosis (The Reason Why) (storey 11 of 40)
Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
(BURIED ALIVE)
Lashing winds drive walls of snow across a vanishing trail. A single skidoo struggles to maintain its course on a track that is rapidly disappearing under the driven snow. The heavy skimmer bucks sideways in the drifts, pulling the skidoo with its human cargo off the track and...
Canadian Issues
Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Topics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department...
Long Beach Wild
A Celebration of People and Place on Canada's Rugged Western Shore
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
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An intimate look at Long Beach's dramatic landscapes and colourful characters.
Each year, close to a million people visit the spectacular sweep of sand that stretches along Vancouver Island's west coast between Tofino and Ucluelet. In Long Beach Wild, long-time resident Adrienne...
Hopeful Travellers
Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
In this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County – specifically the histories of those families who occupied...
Dreams of Equality
Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both...
Great White Fleet
Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as far west as Duluth, Minnesota, and as far east as the Lower St. Lawrence River.
The passenger...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by...
A Legacy of Caring
A History of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Begun in 1891, the Children's Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America. It has played a leading roll as an advocate of children's welfare; it has been instrumental in influencing child welfare practice not only in Ontario but all of Canada and elsewhere. With an...
Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions...
Village Among Nations
"Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2000
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...