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6 Crossing Borders with Our Work: Interview with Erín Moure Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson Erín Moure is a Montreal poet who writes in English, but multilingually. In her recent O Resplandor (2010) and—with Oana Avasilichioaei—Expeditions of a Chimæra (2009), her poetry...

3 Youth Participants: Who Are They? JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey Outlines the research objectives and goals, along with the reasons why the author chose a qualitative research methodology. The chapter then provides a demographic profile of the 53 youth interviewed from Canada, the United States, and Australia. The chapter ends with a composite profile of female and male participants.

Chapter 7 “The Whole World Opened Up”: Women in Canadian Theosophy Gillian McCann Gillian McCann focuses on Toronto Theosophical Society women who, through political and religious experimentation, sought to build a spiritually based society anchored in social justice and equity....

Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India’s greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi’s interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in the twentieth century,...

Chapter 4 The Enemies Within: Luther and the Wittenberg Radicals Harry Loewen Opposition to Luther’s ideas from collegial quarters (those within his Church circle.)

Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has, paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that arise from these...

What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís...

In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven years there. Told with affection...

“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? Recollections of older Canadians, selections from writings by Canadian authors and...

Chapter 4: No Longer Vices: Call Them Health Issues, 1920 to the Present Marcel Martel Vices came to be known by different names. Although Churches, police forces, and fellow citizens continued to condemn those who transgressed “normal” behaviours, transgressions were now often diagnosed...

“It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town...

“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children without any of the safeguards...

During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged — that of the Anabaptist movement. Profiles of Anabaptist Women provides lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose to risk prosecution and martyrdom to pursue...

Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates...