Canada category: 4109 books
by Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very little about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an enlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and calculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely and wholly ignorant of the total change of life to which they must necessarily submit in their adopted home.
Peace on the Lakes
Canada and the Rush-Bagot Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Rush Bagot Agreement is the oldest arms limitation agreement in the world. It originated in the aftermath of the War of 1812 when both Great Britain and the United States feared a descent into a naval arms race on the Great Lakes of North America. Two hundred years later the Rush-Bagot Agreement...
by Mark J. Kasoff, Patrick James
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike acknowledge it as an ideal tool for understanding...
Canadian State Trials, Volume II
Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
This second volume of the Canadian State Trials series focuses on the largest state security crisis in 19th century Canada: the rebellions of 1837-1838 and associated patriot invasions in Upper and Lower Canada (Ontario and Québec). Historians have long debated the causes and implications of the...
Only to Serve
Selections from Addresses of Governor-General Georges P. Vanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Collected in this volume are selections from addresses by His Excellency, General Georges P. Vanier, one of the most eminent public figures of Canada. His broad interests and deep involvement in all aspects of Canadian life are reflected in these speeches. A life-long concern with the importance of...
The Fiercest Debate
Cecil A Wright, the Benchers, and Legal Education in Ontario 1923-1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
From its earliest days the Law Society of Upper Canada adhered to the traditions of English legal practice and education. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, some of the most cherished of those traditions were challenged in a bitter debate about the nature of legal education in Ontario. This book tells...
Be Wise! Be Healthy!
Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. For well over a century, governments and voluntary groups have run educational campaigns encouraging Canadians to adopt health habits that promise to prolong lives, increase our quality of life, cost the state less, and make us more efficient workers. Be Wise!...
Screams of the Furies
Cries of Furies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The Captain is asleep with his good hearing ear in the pillow…I can feel the weight of it as it as it gets closer, roaring like an old Whitepass steam engine determined to run us down. The Audrey Eleanor is pulsating with the sound…
It has been a handful of years since the magnificent,...
Sing a New Song
Portraits of Canada's Crusading Bishops
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
For the first time, Sing a New Song tells the stories of four Canadian bishops who pushed the envelope and changed the world. All have faced severe opposition; one was involved in the only Anglican schism in Canadian history; two jeopardized their careers; and one was voted the sixth most important...
Gendered Pasts
Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon...
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment,...
The World is Our Parish
John King Gordon, 1900-1989: An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
One of Canada’s most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming’s biography of Gordon explores the man’s many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his...
by John Garner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
To discuss the history of the franchise in Canada, Mr. Garner had to go back well before Confederation because 1867 did not mark the beginnings of a new franchise. Until 1885 the federal government employed the provincial franchises at each federal election, and the provinces in turn continued for...
The Cariboo Trail
A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Agnes C. Laut’s The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed that a little over ten years later a gold rush would hit the Fraser...