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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...
E.C. Drury
Agrarian Idealist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
In a fiercely fought provincial election in 1919, a new political movement came to power in Ontario. The victorious party was the United Farmers of Ontario. Its leader, Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968), became the province's eighth premier.
Idealistic agrarian reformer, staunch temperance man,...
by Eugene Forsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
We are apt to think of labour unions as a feature of a relatively advanced industrial society. It comes as a surprise to many to learn how long ago in Canadian history they actually appeared. Unions already existed in the predominantly rural British North America of the early nineteenth century. There...
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...
Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island
From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Who has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants? This question of property rights, and their construction, was at the heart of rural protest on Prince Edward Island for a century. Tenants...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy...
Publicity and the Canadian State
Critical Communications Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publicity state.” This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state’s relationship with publicity practices and the “permanent...
Searching for Leadership
Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Although the subject of "leadership" is a hot topic, it has never attracted much attention in the public sector. Searching for Leadership is the first book to examine the evolving role and leadership of the highest-ranking public servant in Ottawa or in any of Canada's Provinces and Territories,...
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...
Doing Good
The Life of Toronto's General Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries. In this lively and authoritative account, J.T.H. Connor traces the hospital’s two-hundred-year evolution, as its mandate to ‘do good’ forced constant adjustment...
Partnership for Excellence
Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians...
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Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook.
*I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course...
Frontier and Metropolis
Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland...