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  • A Little History of Canada

    by H.V. Nelles ...
    This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation and distinct society - and it is doing so yet again. Fully revised, this updated 150th anniversary ... Read more

    $8.39 USD

  • Philosophy of railroads and other essays

    Railroad promotion and manipulation in the 19th century

    by T.C. Keefer ...
    Series series Heritage
    T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads is one of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century, This volume brings four of Keefer's works together with a brilliant introduction by H.V. Nelles. It includes Philosophy of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Art of Nation-Building

    Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary

    by H.V. Nelles ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300th anniversary – the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be surpassed until the centennial of 1967. The climax of the 1908 celebration was an historical pageant in which 4000 sumptuously costumed citizens re ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Wilderness and Waterpower

    How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir

    by Christopher Armstrong, H. V. Nelles ...
    Series series Energy, Ecology and the Environment
    Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The River Returns

    An Environmental History of the Bow

    by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, H.V. Nelles ...
    Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Revisiting 1759

    The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective

    by Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid ...
    The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history.This cohesive ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    by Conrad Black ...
    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Making of Canada

    An Epic History in Twenty Extraordinary Lives

    by Greg Koabel ...
    The Making of Canada is a bold reimagining of Canada's past, presenting the nation's evolution through the stories of twenty diverse and fascinating individuals who at critical moments in time shaped its identity.Moving beyond the familiar names of Champlain and Macdonald, historian Greg Koabel, creator of the popular Nations of Canada podcast, shines a spotlight on lesser-known figures such as ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of Quebec

    by Robin Philpot, Jacques Lacoursière ...
    Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and "embrothered the peoples" they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote.Connecting everyday life to the events that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected ... Read more

    $13.99 USD