Canada category: 4109 books
O.D. Skelton
A Portrait of Canadian Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of Britain....
Louis Riel
Let Justice Be Done
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Louis Riel, prophet of the new world and founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has challenged Canadian politics, history and religion since the early years of Confederation. In Canada’s most important and controversial state trial, Riel was found guilty of “high treason,” sentenced to...
Drop Dead
A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.
Take a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock...
by Barry M. Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Once on the margins of European empires, notably those of France, England and Spain, then a focus of international rivalries and wars during the 18th century, Canada is now a nation that is front and center in the world's affairs. Canada's emergence as a modern industrial nation and a key player in...
Commemorating Canada
History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.
Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been...
The Canadian Kingdom
150 Years of Constitutional Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
An integral part of Canada’s political culture, the constitutional monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution.
Canada inherited the constitutional monarchy from Britain even before Confederation in 1867. In the 150 years since then,...
by David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Why does Canada have such an inflated portion of the global bubble gum market? What is driving modern versions of the old penny candy store? Candymaking in Canada takes the wrapper off Canada’s thriving chocolate and sweets industry. Confectionery is a global business with remarkably regional tastes,...
Gompers in Canada
A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing...
Canada and the Third World
Overlapping Histories
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.
Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's...
Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological,...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in...
Moon Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
From rugged coastline and uninhabited islands, to charming seaside towns full of friendly locals, experience the best of this adventurous region with Moon Atlantic Canada. Inside you'll find:
Strategic, flexible itineraries including scenic drives, aquatic adventures, and the two-week best of...
An Uncommon Road
How Canadian Sikhs Struggled out of the Fringes and into the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A riveting, incisive account of some of the most complex politics in modern Canada, from the founder of the World Sikh Organization of Canada.
Widely publicized atrocities in the mid-80s came to define Canada’s Sikhs: the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple by the Indian military, the assassination...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate travel guide to this immense country. In full colour throughout, with clear maps, detailed coverage, suggested itineraries and regional highlights, there are independent author recommendations for hotels, restaurants, cafés and bars from Toronto and Montréal...