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  • Celebrating Canada

    Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols

    by Raymond B. Blake, Mathew Hayday ...
    Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Celebrating Canada

    Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities

    Edited by Mathew Hayday, Raymond B. Blake ...
    Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national andprovincial holidays and annual celebrations.The contributorstothis volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    A true story of deception and survival amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

    by Melanie McGrath ...
    A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic.In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called ‘Nanook of the North’ which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo.Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006 Revised Edition

    by Valerie Knowles ...
    Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped to define the character of Canadian immigrants over the centuries. Key policymakers and moulders of public ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Odyssey

    A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests

    by Peter H. Russell ...
    150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation.In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Even Bearded Men Cried

    A memoir of growing up in World War Two Germany

    by Brigitte Kurowski-Wilson, Bernard Marrocco ...
    Even Bearded Men Cried is the memoir of a young German girl. Torn from her childhood and orphaned in 1938 at the age of 12, Brigitte Speidel was housed by an imperious grandmother before being sent to a Hitler Youth boarding school. She nursed in Austria in the midst of Allied bombs during the war, tending concentration camp victims after it. Expelled from Austria, she became a beggar refugee ... Read more

    $7.47 CAD

  • Trudeaumania

    The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

    by Robert Wright ...
    Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book PrizeA Hill-Times Best Book of the YearNearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • War Interlude 1916 -1919

    by Harold Hesler ...
    In 1916, a young bank clerk from the Niagara region joined the Canadian Artillery and was shipped off to France and Belgium. Three and a half years later, he returned to Canada and rejoined the bank, eventually to become one of its most senior officers. This is his own account of that interval, during which he survived the battles of the Somme, Lens, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and the Canadian ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Whisky and Ice

    The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring Rumrunner

    by C.W. Hunt ...
    During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr's only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie Perri.Whisky and Ice takes the reader back to the Prohibition era, when Canada and the United States were ... Read more

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  • Sudbury

    Rail Town to Regional Capital

    by C.M. Wallace ...
    At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now, nearly 100 years later, Sudbury is the largest city in northeastern Ontario. it is also the centre of many governmental, business, social, educational, media, medical, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Immigrants in Prairie Cities

    Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

    by Royden Loewen, Gerald Friesen ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • One in a Thousand

    The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps

    by Graham Broad ...
    This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the past matters, why historians take different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD