Canada category: 4109 books
by David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim in this work is to demonstrate the interrelationship of the two chambers and the...
Agents of Empire
British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2007
The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire, Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed, and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences...
Rockets, Bombs and Bayonets
A Concise History of the Royal Marines and other British and Canadian Forces in Defence of Canada 1812-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In December of 1812, after having their peace offer rebuffed, the British cabinet decided to take aggressive measures against the United States. The Admiralty sent Rear Admiral George Cockburn RN with a squadron of ships of the line and frigates to shut down the American privateers, protect...
After the Rebellion
The later years of William Lyon Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
This comprehensive book on William Lyon Mackenzie's later life focuses first on the period 1838-1849, Mackenzie's years in exile in the United States. It examines his contribution to the American political scene, including his role in writing the constitution of the State of New York. The book also...
by Jane Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada.
Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the...
On Her Majesty's Service
Royal Honours and Recognition in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Royal recognition in Canada is accorded through a variety of honours and awards, including the Royal Victorian Order, Medal, and Chain; Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Commendations; and Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Recognition Badges. On Her Majesty's Service examines the history and development of...
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes...
by George Warburton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The philosophers of remote antiquity acquired the important knowledge of the earth's spherical form; to their bold genius we are indebted for the outline of the geographical system now universally adopted. With a vigorous conception, but imperfect execution, they traced out the scheme of denoting localities...
The Jesuit Missions
A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
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 in the great land, in every direction from the rude dwellings that housed the pioneers...
Break Up or Bombs (storey 4 of 40)
Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
There has not been a plane in weeks. It is break up in the Arctic. This is 1966 in Fort Norman on Deh Cho, the McKenzie River in the NWT, Canada. I am a little girl sitting on the banks of this mighty river with every other kid in town. Our ears strain for the sounds of cracking ice that will indicate...
by Catharine Parr Traill
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author’s broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural...
Moving on Up (storey 22 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
We will be moving yet again. This move will take us to the Arctic Ocean and into the domain of the “Eaters of Raw Meat.” Coppermine which is now called Kugluktuk, is located on the Coronation Gulf, this is part of the Northwest Passage. Kugluktuk means the Place of the Moving Waters.
Coppermine...
So You Think You Are North? (storey 12 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
My first conscious perception of North and South came years ago at Marsh Lake. I was visiting my friend Verna at the time. Her father Charlie Taylor asked me when I had moved “North” to Whitehorse. I remember considering that perception, I had not prior to this question. I replied.” this is...
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times.
Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History explores the complex interconnections between science, technology,...