Canada category: 4109 books
by Jodi Aoki
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Frances Stewart arrived in Upper Canada from Ireland in 1822 with her husband, three children, and two servants. The family settled in Douro Township on the bank of the Otonabee River in 1823. Spanning three-quarters of a century, her letters represent the immigrant experience of one of the first...
Strangers in Our Midst
Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadian parents that pedophilia could be cured. Strangers in Our Midst explores the popularization of the notion of sexual deviancy as a way of understanding...
Canada's Religions
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Aboriginal, or one of dozens of other religions - faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, Robert Choquette offers a comprehensive history...
Soldiers of God (storey 39 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
‘LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT AND RIGHT…girls, girls keep your eyes to the front, don’t look at your feet!’ ‘And once again, left, right, left, right and split.’ “ No, NO! “ By now the scratchy old 45-vinyl record has run out of brass instruments and drums. Round and round the needle scratches...
Merchants Exchange
Ignatius Cockshutt, 1812 - 1901 Canadian Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The MERCHANTS EXCHANGE is a lively history, primarily about Ignatius Cockshutt, his entrepreneurial skills, and his contributions to the development of the City of Brantford, Canada, from 1832 to 1962. Following a brief ancestral history of the Cockshutt family in England, it then tells of their emigration...
Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian Northwest
A Study in Canadian-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
From the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, only a line separates Canada from the United States—the mute evidence of each nation's manifest destiny. As a boundary, the 49th parallel is entirely manmade and will never really divide the Northern Great Plains, for it is a region at once geographically...
by Mary Beacock Fryer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
Battlefields of Canada encompasses nearly 300 years of history and features sixteen of the most significant Canadian battles as well as some of the most comic or bizarre. Profusely illustrated with sketches, photographs, and detailed maps, each chapter sets the context of the battle in terms of the...
'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...
Tapping into the Pulse
Political public opinion polling in Canada, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Written by Éric Grenier, author of ThreeHundredEight.com, and with a foreword by Paul Adams, Associate Professor of Journalism at Carleton University, "Tapping into the Pulse: Political public opinion polling in Canada, 2013" tells the story of the year in Canadian provincial and...
Buying Happiness
The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s. This change required more than rising incomes and greater impulses to buy; it involved the creation of new concepts. Buying Happiness explores the ways that key public thinkers represented, conceptualized,...
Inventing Atlantic Canada
Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry into Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
When Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949, it was hoped it would promote greater unity between the Maritime provinces, as Term 29 of the Newfoundland Act explicitly linked the region's economic and political fortunes. On the surface, the union seemed like an unprecedented opportunity...
by Terrence Rundle West
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
It’s the 1930s. In Montreal, tensions are running high. French vs. English. Jew vs. Christian. Have vs. have-not. The city is swirling with unrest. From Outremont to St. Urbain Street, people are struggling to lift off the yoke of strife and despair caused by the most devastating economic depression...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Three: 1957-1968
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his memoirs follows him from his years of triumph as a Canadian diplomat to his retirement from politics...
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.