Canada category: 4109 books
In the Power of the Government
The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada’s natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case...
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists
The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy...
Power, Politics, and Principles
Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of...
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance
Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 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...
Savoir Faire, Savoir Vivre
The Rideau Club 1865–2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Commemorating the Rideau Club’s 150th anniversary, this richly illustrated book celebrates the history of Ottawa’s premier private club since its founding in 1865.
Co-founded by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cartier, the history of Ottawa’s premier private club — the...
Against the Current
The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Received an Honourable Mention for the 2018 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing
The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC’s first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist.
Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in...
Roots of Entanglement
Essays in the History of Native-Newcomer Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada. Various engagements between Indigenous peoples and the state are emphasized and questions are raised about the ways in which the...
Federal Royal Commissions in Canada 1867-1966
A Checklist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
The subjects inquired into by Canadian federal royal commissions have ranged over such a wide field that the reports and special studies prepared by the 400 commissions since Confederation have become an essential part of any research in Canadian studies. In many cases the special studies which are...
Angus L. Macdonald
A Provincial Liberal
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2007
Perhaps one of the most influential Canadian premiers of the Twentieth Century and one of the leading political intellectuals of his generation, Angus L. Macdonald dominated politics in Nova Scotia for more than twenty years, serving as premier from 1933 to 1940 and again from 1945 until his death...
by Robert M. MacIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Almost half the population of Toronto-immigrants and newcomers from elsewhere in Canada-has no cultural memory of our city's beginnings. In a bid to fill this gap, Earliest Toronto tells the city's story up to the War of 1812 and its aftermath. Beginning with the dramatic conflicts in the aboriginal...
Body Failure
Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada’s medical...
Facing Eugenics
Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies...
Barren Grounds
The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group’s progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands...
by A. Margaret Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Few political leaders in Ontario's history have had as lasting an impact on the province, and perhaps on the nation, as Oliver Mowat, premier from 1872 to 1896. Under his leadership Ontario flourished economically, socially, and politically.
Among the many political skills that Mowat brought...