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    A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life

    by Christopher Dummitt ...
    When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King’s death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • No Place for the State

    The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill

    by Christopher Dummitt, Christabelle Sethna ...
    “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion.In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspectives as they assess how the 1969 Omnibus Bill helped ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • True Stories from Nova Scotia's Past

    by Dianne Marshall ...
    CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City

    The Meeting That Made Canada

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Series series History of Canada
    In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent ... Read more

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  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    by Katrina Srigley ...
    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Toronto Sprawls

    A History

    by Lawrence Solomon ...
    With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours of its landscape?In Toronto Sprawls, Lawrence Solomon examines the great migration from farms to ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Clinic of Hope

    The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac

    by Donna M. Ivey ...
    This is the story of Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Canada and describes her extraordinary perseverance to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy she called Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Rene Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists since her death in 1978. Rene wrestled with the Hepburn government of Ontario over the ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755

    by Chris Hand ...
    Series Book 3 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    Almost since Champlain's men first settled on St. Croix Island in 1604, the French and the English fought for control of Acadia, a huge area consisting of today's Maritime Provinces and parts of Quebec and Maine. The British assault on Fort Beauséjour in 1755 was the final act in this long struggle. The frontier between the two imperial powers lay along the Chignecto Isthmus, the neck of low, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Old Way North

    Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition

    by David F. Pelly ...
    In the spring of 1912, Anishinaabe guide Billy Magee received a letter from future conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer asking Magee to accompany him on a journey. Soon after the two set off on a five-month canoe expedition following the old way north, a largely unmapped territory that would test both their endurance and their friendship.Tracing the route of the Oberholtzer-Magee expedition, The Old ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Fortress

    by William Wood ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected France with America by way of the Atlantic, the St Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi. But since the chain itself and all its ... Read more

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  • Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America

    Edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, Alexander Laban Hinton ...
    This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive ... Read more

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  • Education and Ontario Family History

    A Guide to the Resources for Genealogists and Historians

    by Marian Press ...
    Series Book 6 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Many family researchers with Ontario roots discover they have ancestors who were teachers. Those with no teachers in the family may have ancestors who were part of the Ontario education system as students. Today there are numerous varied resources available to find information on teachers, pupils, schools, textbooks, and curricula in historical Ontario.Education and Ontario Family History outlines ... Read more

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