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  • Reclaiming Tom Longboat

    Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport

    by Janice Forsyth ...
    Winner of the 2021 North American Society for Sport History Book AwardReclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations. Drawing on a rich and varied set of oral and textual sources, including interviews with award ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Beyond the Rink

    Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey

    by Alexandra Giancarlo, Janice Forsyth, Braden Te Hiwi ...
    Teammates, champions, SurvivorsIn 1951, after winning the Thunder Bay district championship, the Sioux Lookout Black Hawks hockey team from Pelican Lake Indian Residential School embarked on a whirlwind promotional tour through Ottawa and Toronto. They were accompanied by a professional photographer from the National Film Board who documented the experience. The tour was intended to demonstrate ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Sport

    by Janice Forsyth, Christine O’Bonsawin, Russell Field, Murray G. Phillips ...
    Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Kenya — the authors demonstrate the two sharp edges of sport in the history of colonialism. Colonizers used sport, their own and Indigenous recreational activities they appropriated, as ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Olympic Perspectives

    Edited by Stephan Wassong, Richard Baka, Janice Forsyth ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. The Olympic Movement can be addressed from multidisciplinary perspectives, including management, sociology, education, philosophy and history. This comprehensive ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 34 No. 1, 2024

    by Benjamin Bryce, Nicole Neatby, Donna Trembinski, Robert Englebert, Steven High, Greg Bak, Kenton Storey, Alexandra Giancarlo, Janice Forsyth, Elizabeth McKenzie0, Ian Mosby*1, Enrico Moretto2, Laura Ishiguro*3, Melanie K. Ng*4, Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra5, Laura Madokoro6 ...
    Series Book 34 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Steven High’s presidential address, delivered at York University in May 2023, grapples with many of the issues facing our discipline and what it means to be a historian in the present. Despite the extreme political polarization of our time, he expressed admiration at the courage of so many historians who continue to speak truth to power, even at considerable risk to themselves. He also addresses ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

    Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

    by Bob Joseph ...
    Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph’s book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph examines how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, ... Read more

    $9.95 CAD

  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edited by Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Truth Telling

    Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

    by Michelle Good ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER High Plains Book AwardFINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyFINALIST for the Indigenous Voices AwardLonglisted for the First Nation Communities READAbold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.With authority and insight... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • True Reconciliation

    How to Be a Force for Change

    by Jody Wilson-Raybould ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.**There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? It is clear that people from all over the country want to take concrete and tangible action that ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

    A Life

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn.L’Heureux-Dubé’s innovative legal approach was anchored in the social, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • University Governance in Canada

    Navigating Complexity

    by Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier, Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Glen Jones ...
    Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD