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  • Lifting a Ton of Feathers

    A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World

    Series series Heritage
    Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by ... Leer más

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  • Canada's Soldiers in South Africa

    Tales from the Boer War, 1899-1902

    de John Boileau ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In 1899 a thousand Canadian soldiers went to war--in South Africa.They were fighting white farmers who defied the mighty British empire by setting up their own, independent state.This South African or Boer War of 1899-1902 marked the first time Canadian troops went abroad to fight alongside Britain.Like other conflicts, the Boer War was controversial in Canada. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's liberal ... Leer más

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  • Taking The Ice

    de Pj Kwong ...
    Canada is synonymous with success in figure skating. "Taking the Ice" tells us about some of the people who have been instrumental in creating the "Ice Dynasty" that we have come to enjoy as Canadians. It all begins with the love affair between Canadians and Barbara Ann Scott the 1948 Olympic Champion and the book takes us right up to the stories of the Canadian Champions at the Vancouver 2010 ... Leer más

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  • Oka

    A Political Crisis and Its Legacy

    de Harry Swain ...
    On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked the world and galvanized Aboriginal people across the ... Leer más

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  • Troublous Times in Canada

    Enriched edition. A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870

    In "Troublous Times in Canada," John A. MacDonald delivers a compelling narrative that intricately weaves together the turbulent history of Canada during the 19th century. Written in a reflective and engaging style, the book captures the essence of the conflicts and challenges faced by the nascent nation as it sought to define its identity amid colonial pressures and internal strife. MacDonald's ... Leer más

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  • The Promise of Schooling

    Education in Canada, 1800-1914

    de Paul Axelrod ...
    Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded ... Leer más

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  • Parkin

    Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

    George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and ... Leer más

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  • Residential Schools and Reconciliation

    Canada Confronts Its History

    de J.R. Miller ...
    Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, ... Leer más

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  • Observing the Outports

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    de Jeff Webb ...
    The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw the province’s transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization ... Leer más

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  • Making a Global City

    How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

    de Robert Vipond ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Leer más

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  • The University of Toronto

    A History, Second Edition

    The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and ideas into a remarkable synthesis. His scholarly yet highly readable account presents colourful presidents ... Leer más

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  • Progressive Education

    Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942

    Over the course of the twentieth century, North American public school curricula moved away from the classics and the humanities, and towards ‘progressive’ subjects such as health and social studies. This book delves into how progressivist thinking transformed the rhetoric and the structure of schooling during the first half of the twentieth century, with echoes that reverberate strongly today, ... Leer más

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