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  • The Dominion of Youth

    Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

    by Cynthia R. Comacchio ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Ring Around the Maple

    A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries

    by Cynthia R. Comacchio, Neil Sutherland ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland trace the lives of children over this “long century” with a view to synthesizing the rich interdisciplinary, often multi-disciplinary, literature that has emerged since the 1970s ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • A War Guest in Canada

    by W.A.B. Douglas ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London.Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Healing the World's Children

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century

    by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz ...
    Series Book 33 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

    by Charlotte Gray ...
    What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories.From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Who We Are

    Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

    by Murray Sinclair ...
    Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Unbelievable Canadian War Stories

    Well Beyond the Call of Duty

    by Pat MacAdam ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Often little-known but extraordinary, the quiet heroes of one of the most destructive wars in history left indelible impressions among those whose lives were touched by their actions. Up against firing squads, torpedoes, rogue waves, P.O.W. camps, and all the living hells of warfare, they persevered, they saved lives, and they valiantly served their country. Distinguished and decorated, these men ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Wînipêk

    Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

    by Niigaan Sinclair ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation.Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day

    My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

    by Captain Tom Moore ...
    Embark on an enchanting journey into our country's past hundred years through the remarkable life of Captain Sir Tom MooreTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful life story with lessons for us all . . . beautifully written' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Gloriously enthralling' DAILY MAIL__________Captain Sir Tom Moore's story is all our stories . . .... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • This Place

    150 Years Retold

    by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette0, Chelsea Vowel1 ...
    A great read and an excellent teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!Learn about the history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada from Confederation to the Oka Crisis and beyond in this Indigenous graphic novel anthology for young adults.Explore 150 years of history through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian School Road

    Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School

    by Chris Benjamin ...
    The scandalous history of neglect, abuse, and exploitation at a residential school for children—and the ongoing effects in the decades since it closed.In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of Canada's Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horrible Histories: The Blitzed Brits

    by Terry Deary ...
    Series series Horrible Histories
    Do your grandparents moan on about what life was like in the war? Want to know if they're telling the terrible truth? Read on to explore the horrible hardships the Blitzed Brits suffered while bombs dropped out of the sky! Find out what really happened in Dad's Army! See how to make a rude noise with a gas mask! Learn why the Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty! Faint at the thought of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD