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The Lazier Murder
Prince Edward County, 1884
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury...
Adapting in the Dust
Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers...
Canada Since 1945
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
From the preface:
"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and...
The Fur Trade in Canada
An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence.
Innis has long been regarded...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Despite abundant hardships, pioneer life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful, and Mr. Guillet brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. He draws on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, supplementing these researches with interviews with persons...
Prejudice and Pride
Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American...
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 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 Diamond Jenness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social...
Stewards of the Nation's Art
Contested Cultural Authority 1890-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2010
Between 1890 and 1939, the groups of men involved in running Britain's four main public art galleries - the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the Wallace Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery - were embroiled in continuous power struggles. Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal...
Education in the Best Interests of the Child
A Children's Rights Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A large body of research in disciplines from sociology and policy studies to neuroscience and educational psychology has confirmed that socioeconomic status remains the most powerful influence on children’s educational outcomes. Socially disadvantaged children around the world disproportionately...
Roads to Maturity/Vers La Maturité
Proceedings of the Second Canadian Conference on Children/Déliberations de la second Conférence Canadienne de l'Enfance Montréal, October 31-November 4, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This volume contains the proceedings of the second Canadian Conference on Children which was held in Montreal in the autumn of 1965. It includes four papers given by Dr. Alva Myrdal, Dr. Alan Ross, Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch and Dr. C.E. Hendry, all well known for their attention to the problems of children...
Priests and Politicians
Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
By the beginning of 1964 public debate about the terms on which French and English culture could continue to co-exist within a single Canadian federal state had become intense. Many causes could be assigned for the intensity of the debate, but one of them evidently was the lack of clear formulation...
The Clear Spirit
Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the...