Canada category: 4109 books
Canada and the Age of Conflict
Volume 1: 1867-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume begins his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world.
The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity,...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
The settlement of Upper Canada began in the Detroit river district where there were several hundred people living before the close of the French régime. Between 1785 and 1800 colonization continued with the arrival of Loyalists and other settlers, including a contingent of German mercenaries who...
by Ron Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Take a journey across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks.
With Canada's World Wonders, you'll visit Banff National Park, the first link in a vast network of natural parks and heritage sites that has grown to include Old Quebec, the Rideau Canal, and the Fortress...
Osgoode Hall
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Fred Landon Award
Osgoode Hall is a national monument and one of the architectural treasures of Canada. Of the many public buildings erected in pre-confederation Canada and British North America, it best encapsulates the diverse stylistic forces that shaped public buildings...
Tax, Order, and Good Government
A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point...
Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle
A Time Such as There Never Was Before / On the Front Line of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock profiled with keen wit and observational skill. With Bowker as your guide, explore what it was really...
Canadian Symbols of Authority
Maces, Chains, and Rods of Office
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The first book to examine the various parliamentary maces, rods, badges, and chains of office used throughout Canada, Canadian Symbols of Authority details how these devices are used at every level of government, emphasizing how, like the Crown itself, they embody continuity in an ever-changing world.
Symbols...
Majesty in Canada
Essays on the Role of Royalty
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2006
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne, the Centre of Canadian Studies of the University of Edinburgh hosted its annual conference on the theme "Majesty in Canada". The essays that were presented at that conference reflect the wide-ranging...
A Slice of Canada
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national...
by Michiko Midge Ayukawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 is a fascinating investigation of Japanese migration to Canada prior to the Second World War. It makes Japanese-language scholarship on the subject available for the first time, and also draws on interviews, diaries, community histories, biographies, and the...
Positively Canadian
A Fun Guide to Canadian Language, Culture and History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Want to know more about this great country of Canada?
Want to improve your English as you “share a conversation” with the author?
Then this book is for you!
The informal writing style makes it utterly readable and delightfully
entertaining.
You could read...
Passage to Promise Land
Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Spanning more than six decades, Passage to Promise Land is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, Vivienne Poy captures the social, political,...
by Colin McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a symbol of national identity – in Quebec and the rest of the country. Delving into four decades’ worth of documentaries, newspaper coverage,...
Eastern and Western Perspectives
Papers from the Joint Atlantic Canada/Western Canadian Studies Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at...