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  • Literary History of Canada

    Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)

    Edited by Clara Thomas, Douglas Lochhead, Philip Stratford, Alan Cairns, Carl Berger, William New, Francess Halpenny, Henry Kreisel ...
    Series series Heritage
    This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary

    Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy.This ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland

    The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    "Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Speaking in the Past Tense

    Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

    by Herb Wyile ...
    “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”— Herb Wyile, from the IntroductionThe extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    by Herb Wyile ...
    Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hurricane Hazel

    Canada's Storm of the Century

    by Jim Gifford ...
    On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel battered southern Ontario, leaving in its wake a terrible toll: thousands homeless, million in property damage, and, worst of all, 81 people dead. Hazel destroyed bridges, submerged towns, and drowned unsuspecting Ontarians in their homes and cars. Raymore Drive in Weston was decimated when the Humber River swelled by eight feet, taking the lives of 32 ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Country Roads of Alberta

    Exploring the Routes Less Travelled

    by Liz Bryan ...
    Experience Alberta's heritage and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing photographic guidebook that takes you to places off the beaten track.Alberta's scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western edge by high mountains, the land descends through foothills to stretch into undulating plains sculpted by ancient ice into ridges, hills and deep coulees. Under the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Recollecting

    Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

    Edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia A McCormack ...
    Series series The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
    This rich collection of essays illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.Some essays focus on individuals—a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women—wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Leaside

    by Jane Pitfield ...
    Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community. Named after John Lea, a successful farmer, whose house, built in 1829, is believed to be the first brick house in York County, Leaside grew from a railway settlement into a prosperous urban town. With its roots embedded in the history of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Up in the Oil Patch

    by John Schmidt ...
    Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch!The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada's gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $31.99 USD

  • Canada's Jews

    A People's Journey

    by Gerald Tulchinsky ...
    The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish ... Read more

    $52.99 USD