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From Arm's Length to Hands-On
The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years.
The year 1867 was therefore a watershed....
by Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
On one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada—the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand Prize of the Province of Quebec for Moral and Political Science in 1950. Canadian Government Series.
The Aquatic Explorers
A History of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
In 1898 a group of scientists, working without pay, often under hazardous conditions with only the most primitive equipment, began a systematic study of the fishes in Canada's inland and marine waters. The team operated under the aegis of a board of management which was later to evolve into the Fisheries...
Reaction and Reform
The Politics of the Conservative Party under R.B. Bennett, 1927-1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
When R.B. Bennett assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 1926, he inherited a party out of step with a modernizing Canada. Three years later, in the early days of the Depression, he led the Tories to power with a mandate to bring back prosperity. Larry A. Glassford explores...
The Shaping of Peace
Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
The establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects for world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of forces and revised calculations of what was possible....
A Century of Challenge
A History of the Ontario Veterinary College
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In lively fashion Mr. Gattinger records the development of the Ontario Veterinary College, the oldest continuously operating veterinary school in this hemisphere. Viewing its history from the perspective of today, he sees the College and the profession it serves moving in response to the times, from...
Knight of the Holy Spirit
A study of William Lyon Mackenzie King
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Through a blending of psycho-biography and political analysis, Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life...
Walk Towards the Gallows
The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2007
On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.
Blake...
Becoming a History Teacher
Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education programs, schools, and ministries of education across Canada are all among those embracing the idea that...
Born at the Right Time
A History of the Baby Boom Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
It is rare in history for people to link their identity with their generation, and even rarer when children and adolescents actually shape society and influence politics. Both phenomena aptly describe the generation born in the decade following the Second World War. These were the baby boomers, viewed...
Modern Animalism
Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic...
Cybersemiotics
Why Information Is Not Enough
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics...
World Made Sexy
Freud to Madonna
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2007
The cult of eroticism is a pervasive force in modern society, affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives. In this book, Paul Rutherford argues that this phenomenon is a product of one of the major commercial and political enterprises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the creation...
Benjamin Disraeli Letters
1865-1867, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Times Literary Supplement recently praised the Benjamin Disraeli Letters volumes as ‘a remarkable series … on its way to becoming one of the landmarks of Victorian-era scholarship.’ Each volume provides a unique record of Disraeli’s daily activities as well as rare glimpses into his decision-making...