Canada category: 4109 books
Plateaus of Freedom
Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities...
by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This book traces the development of higher education in Canada, through a detailed description and analysis of what was being taught and of the research opportunities available to professors in the years from 1860 to 1960. Background is provided in the opening chapters of Part I, which outline the...
by Mary Beacock Fryer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
More Battlefields of Canada is a sequel to Mary Beacock Fryers bestselling Battlefields of Canada. Like it’s predecessor, this volume covers nearly three hundred years of history and covers the most significant - as well as some of the most comic and bizarre - Canadian battles. Illustrated with...
Science in Canada
Selections from the Speeches of E.W.R. Steacie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The relationship between science and government, currently the subject of much lively debate, was one to which E.W.R. Steacie devoted a great deal of his energy and outstanding talents. As President of the National Research Council, a key position which he held for ten years, Dr. Steacie played an...
The Great Western Canada Bucket List
One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Most Canadians think of travel as a way to escape the snow, cold, and dreary winter skies. But Robin Esrock loves all that our western provinces have to offer visitors, and so will you! The Great Western Canada Bucket List highlights the best travel experiences to be had on Canada’s West Coast.
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by Christie Pashby
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, receives nearly six million visitors a year. It is the most heavily-visited national park in Canada, and rightly so — it’s filled with ravishing sights. Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers itineraries that show you how to see the...
Le marin-citoyen
Chroniques de la Réserve navale du Canada 1910–2010
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Ce livre commémoratif, produit à l’occasion du Centenaire de la Marine canadienne 1910–2010, traite d’une double citoyenneté particulière : celle des Canadiens exerçant le métier de la mer au service du Canada, tout en répondant aux devoirs de leurs activités civiles, chez eux, dans...
Le Service naval du Canada, 1910-2010
Cent ans d'histoire
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2009
La Marine canadienne a eu 100 ans en 2010, et le Canada a fièrement célébré cet anniversaire. Connue officiellement jusqu'en 1968 comme la Marine royale du Canada, et après comme le Commandement maritime des Forces canadiennes, le service naval du Canada a joué un rôle important dans le développement...
Globalizing Confederation
Canada and the World in 1867
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation...
Canadians at Last
The Integration of Newfoundland as a Province
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
History provides some interesting case studies of what happens when trade barriers come down. Among them is the story told in this book of Newfoundland's integration into Canada in the aftermath of the province's 1948 referendum. Raymond B. Blake takes a refreshing approach to this episode in Canadian...
A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North
Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s Arctic Claims” remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his...
Land of Choice
The Hungarians in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1957
Written by a Hungarian scholar who himself passed through the vicissitudes of migration and assimilation, this timely study of the movement of Hungarians into Canada has a special value. The author, a graduate of the University of Budapest, taught social history and sociology at the universities of...
The Centennial Cure
Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In The Centennial Cure, the second volume in the Studies in Atlantic Canada History series, Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton critically examines the intersection of state policy, cultural development, and commemoration in Nova Scotia during Canada’s centennial celebrations.
Beaton’s engaging and...
by Benjamin Kohlmeister, George Kmoch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States...