Canada category: 4109 books
The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be
Expo '67 And Its Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and...
Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed
Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots They Carried to Canada, 1774-1855
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2002
The days when Aberdeen’s "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during the sailing ship era. Taking readers through new and little-used documentary sources, Lucille H. Campey...
Now You Know Canada
150 Years of Fascinating Facts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
A National Bestseller!
A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.
Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and...
by Historica Dominion Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Every day tells a story
Canada 365 is a beautifully illustrated book that shows what happened on this day in Canada—from January 1 to December 31—from historical turning points to the odd and unusual, to milestones in sports, business, politics and entertainment.
Featuring over 400...
Viola Desmond’s Canada
A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks,...
Brian Dickson
A Judge's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas...
From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration....
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.
Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the...
The Refugee
Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black people lived in the colony, most of...
by Sarah Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what...
by George M. Wrong, H.H. Langton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA - Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto
The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark.
First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly written historical narratives for the lay person....
by Jean Chretien
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister.
By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years – and his experience is evident on every page...
Young Royals on Tour
William & Catherine in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
On April 29, 2011, Prince William of Wales married Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. The newlyweds' first royal tour took place in Canada from June 30 to July 8. People across the country rejoiced with the couple as they made their way through a land that holds special significance...
by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...