Oxford University Press Canada: 55 books

Cover of Aging in Canada
by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3...
Cover of The Elegant Canadians
by Luella Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

Opening with the Queen Victoria's arrival in Charlottetown harbor, visitors from the Old World emerge with erroneous expectations: they are constantly surprised that the New World is a place of energy, creativity, and imagination, reflected in exuberant architecture, dress, and culture. Elegance flourishes...
Cover of A Little History of Canada
by H.V. Nelles
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation...
Cover of Candian Women and the Struggle for Equality
by Lorna R. Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

What range of possibilities might appear on the horizon to a young woman today as she contemplates her future compared to those envisioned by a young woman 150 years ago? And how would her daily life be different? The degree of change in women's lives in Canada over the last 150 years is staggering,...
Cover of Regions Apart

Regions Apart

The Four Societies of Canada and The United States

by Edward Grabb, James Curtis, Jane Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States provides an invaluable social, cultural, and political comparison of the two countries that share the world's longest undefended border. General readers and students alike will find Regions Apart an insightful analysis of how and why Americans...
Cover of Sight Lines

Sight Lines

Looking at architecture and design in Canada

by Adele Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Canada's leading architectural and design critic, Adele Freedman has been writing for the The Globe and Mail for almost a decade. For this collection she has selected her best columns, including a revised and expanded version of her profile of architect Peter Dickinson, the modernist architect whose...
Cover of The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Canadian women have made remarkable contributions to world literature over the past hundered and fifty years, especially in the short-story genre. The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English offers a cross-section of that writing. Together, the fifty stories that Rosemary Sullivan has selected...
Cover of The Prairie West to 1905

The Prairie West to 1905

A Canadian Sourcebook

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

When the prairie region was transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the central government acquired control over a territory that had a 200-year history of economic and cultural interchange between Indians mixed-bloods, and whites. The federal government was determined to administer the...
Cover of The Struggle for the Border
by Bruce Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

The boundary between Canada and the United States is famously described as the longest undefended border in the world. But it was not always so. In The Struggle for the Border, renowned journalist and popular historian Bruce Hutchison tells the little-known story of how that border was established. It...
Cover of Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada
by Shaun P. Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues associated with how government decisions get made in the interests of the people. The concept and practice of evidence-based policy-making insists that properly developed public policy draws on the best available...
Cover of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre
by L. W. Conolly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Canadian theatre has seen an extraordinary growth in writing talent and new professional companies in the last two decades. This is the first book accurately to chart its expansion and development from the beginnings to the present day. With some 680 entries including biographies of actors, playwrights,...
Cover of The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This indispensable guide to Canadian history is comprehensive, authoritative, and - above all - companionable. It is the essential guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, people, and places that have shaped Canadian life from earliest times to the late twentieth century.
Cover of Toeing the Lines

Toeing the Lines

Women and Party Politics in Canada

by Sylvia B. Bashevkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In major Canadian political parties, as in other power structures, women at the top are hard to find. In this study, Bashevkin examines the partisan experiences of women in English Canada. She traces the historical background to their political engagement, beginning with developments during the early...
Cover of Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Widely recognized as Canada's finest literary humorist, Stephen Leacock was a prolific author, publishing over sixty books during his lifetime, in addition to countless articles and pamphlets. He was also a devoted correspondent, writing hundreds of letters to friends, relatives, and business associates....
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