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  • The Price of Gold

    Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife

    by John Sandlos, Arn Keeling ...
    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

    by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley, Bill Waiser, C.J. Taylor, George Colpitts, Oliver Craig-Dupont, Ronald Rudin, David Neufeld, Brad Martin, E. Gwyn Langemann, I.S. MacLaren, Lyle Dick ...
    Series Book 1 - Canadian History and Environment
    "... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Price of Gold

    Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife

    by John Sandlos, Arn Keeling ...
    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing gold ore in the 1940s, they did so with little or no pollution controls. Giant Mine spewed thousands of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mining and Communities in Northern Canada

    History, Politics, and Memory

    by Arn Keeling, John Sandlos, Patricia Boulter, Jean-Sebastien Boutet, Emilie Cameron, Sarah Gordon, Heather Green, Jane Hammond, Joella Hogan0, Tyler Levitan1, Hereward Longley2, Scott Midgley3, Kevin O’Reilly4, Andrea Procter5, Alexandra Winton6 ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian History and Environment
    For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities provided by new mining operations, they are also often left to navigate the complicated process of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ice Blink

    Navigating Northern Environmental History

    by Tina Adcock, Emelie Cameron, Hans M. Carlson, Marionne Cronin, Matthew Farish, Arn Keeling, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Tina Loo, Paul Nadasdy, Jonathan Peyton, Liza Piper, John Sandlos, Andrew Stuhl ...
    Series Book 7 - Canadian History and Environment
    Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • The Power of Place, the Problem of Time

    Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism

    by Keith Thor Carlson ...
    The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly. In The Power of Place, the Problem of Time, Keith Thor Carlson re-thinks the history of Native ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sacred Feathers

    The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in ... Read more

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  • The Reluctant Land

    Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

    by Cole Harris ...
    Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC PressThe Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same ... 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

    $21.59 USD

  • Nipissing

    Historic Waterway, Wilderness Playground

    by Françoise Noël ...
    2016 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award — Shortlisted2015 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedExplore the history of tourism in the Nipissing Passageway, from Mattawa to Georgian Bay, beginning with Champlain’s voyage in 1615.In the nineteenth century, while the hope of building a Georgian Bay Ship Canal remained elusive, promotional efforts were made by the railways to market the area as a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Residential Schools and Reconciliation

    Canada Confronts Its History

    by J.R. Miller ...
    Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, ... Read more

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  • Travels in the Shining Island

    The Story of James Evans and the Invention of the Cree Syllabary Alphabet

    by Roger Burford Mason ...
    In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone in the sunlight. Wherever he went, Native peoples called the canoe his "Shining Island" or "His Island of Light."Travels in the Shining Island chronicles important events in the life of the extraordinary Methodist missionary, James Evans (1801-1846). It was Evans who created a ... Read more

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