Canada category: 4109 books
Jews and French Quebecers
Two Hundred Years of Shared History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Jews and French Quebecers recounts a saga of intense interest for the whole of Canada, let alone societies elsewhere. This work, now translated into English, represents the viewpoints of two friends from differing cultural and religious traditions. One is a French Quebecer and a Christian; the other...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations of English law – the region is ripe for close...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 16–20
Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorer of Western Canada, David Thompson; the author of the Jalna novels, Mazo de la...
Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers
Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.
Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints...
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals...
Elections in Oxford County, 1837-1875
A Case Study of Democracy in Canada West and Early Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Elections in Oxford County, 1837-75 is a unique exploration of the forms, practices, and issues of democracy in a mid-nineteenth-century colonial setting. In this case study of thirty-eight elections in Oxford County — first as part of the United Province of Canada, then in early Ontario — George...
Mohawk Saint
Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North American saint. Mohawk Saint is a work of history that situates her remarkable life in its seventeenth century setting, a time of wars, epidemics, and cultural transformations for the Indian peoples...
by Stewart Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
It was demolished almost 40 years ago, and yet even today many people have fond memories of the time spent at the Brant Inn, that famous nightclub on Burlington's Lake Ontario waterfront.
The history of the Brant Inn goes back to the early 1900s, but it was the time under the ownership of...
Colonial Justice
Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this new study of early...
The Denison Family of Toronto
1792-1925
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The Denisons were an unusual and colourful family. For over a century – from the War of 1812 to the eve of the Depression – they were in the forefront of political, military, social, and intellectual life in Toronto. They took their duties to king and country seriously, serving in public and military...
Finding Diefenbunker
Canadian Nationalism and Cold War Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “Diefenbunkers”—eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect the Canadian national and provincial governments from a nuclear strike. While many of these...
Lieutenant Colonel “Boom” Marsaw
Born to Run
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This is not “just another war story”. It is a sensitive, in-depth account, such as is rarely shared, of the “born to run” boy turned soldier. Thorold “Boom” Marsaw shares his innermost thoughts and personal life stories of becoming and being one of Canada’s military peacekeepers and...
Canadian Culture and National Identity
The School's Role in Debating and Discussing the Roots of our National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Canada, York University, language: English, abstract: Many have argued that there is no such thing as a Canadian culture or identity. This article explores the history of how schools in the past have shaped a national identity and...
Animal Metropolis
Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear...