Publishing Division: 2717 books
The Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is...
Saturday's Child
Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister. John Diefenbaker appointed her Secretary of State in 1957. In the course of her career she also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister responsible for Indian Affairs, and...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Mr. Guillet is a familiar figure in the field of Canadian local and social history: his work has been acclaimed for its thorough and accurate research, its skilful use of source material, its wealth of authenticated anecdote, and its attention to detail. Written in an attractive and comfortable style,...
Civility
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
Cut off in traffic? Bumped without apology on the subway? Forced to listen to a profane conversation in a public space? In today's Western societies, many feel that there has been a noticeable and marked decrease in mutual consideration in both public and private settings. Are we less civil now than...
Race on Trial
Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history...
'Union is Strength'
W.L. Mackenzie, The Children of Peace and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Nineteenth-century Canada experienced two other revolutions apart from those of W.L. Mackenzie and Louis Riel: the transition to capitalism, and to responsible government. Union Is Strength argues that these major socio-political changes happened in Ontario without a revolutionary moment because of...
Displacing Blackness
Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives.
While...
By Himself
The Older Man's Experience of Widowhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
What happens when older men become widowers? Popular books, movies, and television present widowers as lost and unable to cope or care for themselves. These stereotypes do not encapsulate the experiences of real widowers, how their daily lives change, and what being a widower means to individuals...
Influenza 1918
Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2007
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond...
Pick One Intelligent Girl
Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2007
During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women...
Lyle Creelman
The Frontiers of Global Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This intriguing scholarly biography examines the important contributions of Canada’s foremost international nurse, Lyle Creelman. Creelman parlayed her experience as a community health nurse in British Columbia into significant international appointments with two organizations undertaking massive...
by Margaret Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.
Any printed material now available on the...
Educational Contributions of Associations
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The influence of educational associations is often overlooked in treatises on Ontario's educational system because these groups tend to operate in an informal manner. This volume discusses the various types of educational organizations, their purposes, the scope and nature of their activities, and...