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  • No Return

    A novel of the Canadian election that vanished in Muskoka's backwoods

    by Gordon Aiken ...
    Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.Unique events in the Dominion’s second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken to write about Muskoka’s returning officer, Richard Bell, who refused to declare Liberal candidate A.P. Cockburn elected, even though he got the most votes. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Quarantined

    Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

    by Peter Johnson ...
    Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands of forgotten people who arrived on our shores only to be felled by disease, in an era when ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Final Voyages

    Trouble at Sea

    by Jim Wellman ...
    The fishing industry kills more people than any other job in the world. On average, Atlantic Canada loses one fisherman every month. From the pages of the Navigator magazine comes a collection of more than twenty sea stories from Jim Wellman’s widely acclaimed series, Final Voyages. This volume marks his fourth venture onto the cold Atlantic waters, to stand alongside captain and crew and tell the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Disasters and Public Health

    Planning and Response

    by Julie Casani, Bruce W. Clements ...
    Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response, Second Edition, examines the critical intersection between emergency management and public health. It provides a succinct overview of the actions that may be taken before, during, and after a major public health emergency or disaster to reduce morbidity and mortality. Five all-new chapters at the beginning of the book describe how policy and law ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Gatekeepers

    Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

    by Franca Iacovetta ...
    An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”–mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of citizenship significantly shaped the immigrant experience. Iacovetta’s deft discussion examines how dominant bourgeois gender and Cold War ideologies of the day shaped ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Canada's Constitutional Revolution

    by Barry L. Strayer ...
    The Honourable Barry L. Strayer’s political memoir on Canadian constitutional reform 1960-1982. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Behind the Scenes

    The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark

    by Robert A. Wardhaugh ...
    William Clifford Clark, federal deputy minister of finance from 1932 to 1952, had a profound impact on Canadian history. An important intellectual figure during the first half of the twentieth century, he was leader of 'The Ottawa Men,' a group of federal civil servants who shaped a new liberal vision of the nation. Robert A. Wardhaugh chronicles Clark's contributions to Canada's modern state in ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Seabound Coast

    The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939, Volume I

    by William Johnston, William G.P. Rawling, Richard H. Gimblett, John MacFarlane ...
    From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent British cruisers to the force of six modern destroyers ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Benevolent Experiment

    Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States

    by Andrew Woolford ...
    Series series Indigenous Education
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Essential Excel 2019

    A Step-By-Step Guide

    by David Slager, Annette Slager ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Create, edit, sort, analyze, summarize, and format data as well as graph it in Excel 2019. Chock full of visuals, user-friendly instructions, and reader exercises, this in-depth guide makes it easy for you to get on the bandwagon taking advantage of this powerful software and what it can do. Essential Excel 2019 doesn’t mess around. It provides the most clear and concise, but complete, information ... Read more

    $71.99 USD