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  • The Prime Ministers of Canada

    by Jean Chevrier, Denis Daigneault, Gaétan Jeaurond, Jeanne Poulin, Gerald C. Gummersell ...
    Series series Canadian Leadership Collection
    The Prime Ministers of Canada is a unique work that features original essays by Canada's leading historians and is illustrated with exceptional archival images. The first in a series of books on Canadian leaders, it was first published in 2002 and now has well over 10,000 copies in print form. The fourth edition was published in early 2016 and is now available for the first time in digital format. ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

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    The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

    by John English ...
    This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Truth About Trudeau

    by Bob Plamondon ...
    Finally, after over 30 years of hagiographies, comes a book that sets the record straight and tells us the truth about Pierre Elliott Trudeau.In this unprecedented and meticulously researched sweep of the record, Globe and Mail bestselling author Bob Plamondon challenges the conventional wisdom that Trudeau was a great prime minister. With new revelations, fresh insights, and in-depth analysis, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark

    The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation

    by Mary Janigan ...
    The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau

    The Gang Of Eight And The Fight For Canada

    by Ron Graham ...
    Series series History of Canada
    Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever.In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of constitutional wrangling, ... Read more

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  • Memoirs

    by Brian Mulroney ...
    Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next year, he ran the most successful election campaign ... Read more

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  • No Surrender

    A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today

    by Hugh Segal ...
    Hugh Segal is that rare political animal: a Progressive Conservative partisan who is liked and respected by members of all political parties and who is one of our favorite political pundits. He brings clear-eyed. pragmatic and humorous perspective to this candid and thoughtful memoir, a book that reflects on the true mission of the Progressive Conservative Party and offers insights into Canada's ... Read more

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    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

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  • 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 USD

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    The Descent of Canadian Politics from MacDonald to Chrétien

    by Michael Bliss ...
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    $4.99 USD

  • At the Centre of Government

    The Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power

    by Ian Brodie ...
    "Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader – especially when the prime minister's party holds a majority government in Parliament. But is there any truth to these arguments? At the Centre of Government not only presents ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 7 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD