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  • Canada the Good

    A Short History of Vice since 1500

    by Marcel Martel ...
    To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who have lost so much money that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Not This Time

    Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975

    by Marcel Martel ...
    Series series Heritage
    Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered by the medical profession, and illegal drugs that were subject to state control and suppression ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Confederation

    Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

    by J.R. Miller, Marcel Martel, Colin Coates, Martin Paquet, Maxime Gohier, Phillip Buckner, Robert Wardhaugh, Barry Ferguson, Patricia Roy, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ken S. Coates, Bill Waiser, Raymond B. Blake, Andre Legare ...
    July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian. Reconsidering ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Roads to Confederation

    The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1

    Edited by Marcel Martel, David Cameron, Andrew McDougall, Robert Vipond, Jacqueline Krikorian ...
    In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Globalizing Confederation

    Canada and the World in 1867

    Edited by Marcel Martel, Adrian Shubert, Jacqueline Krikorian ...
    Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacksa range ofviewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Roads to Confederation

    The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

    Edited by Marcel Martel, David Cameron, Andrew McDougall, Robert Vipond, Jacqueline Krikorian ...
    Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 33 No. 2, 2023

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, Julie McIntyre*, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Chelsea Davis, Steve Stein, Kathleen A. Brosnan, Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Sarah Carter0, M. Max Hamon1, Grace Peña Delgado2, Benjamin Hoy3, Andrew Watson4, Brian Froese5, Royden Loewen6, Donald Wright7, Hamar Foster8, Jan Noel9, Donald Smith0 ...
    Series Book 33 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Not the Whole Story

    Challenging the Single Mother Narrative

    Edited by Lea Caragata, Judit Alcalde ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Abuse, parenting as single mothers, challenges in the labour market, mental health and addictions issues, a scarcity of quality childcare, immigration and status vulnerability, struggles with custody, and ... Read more

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  • So Much for Democracy

    by Kari Jones ...
    Twelve-year-old Astrid has come to Ghana with her family in 1979 so that her father can help oversee Ghana’s first democratic election. Astrid and her brother, Gordo, were told it would be a great family adventure, but they soon find out that everything about Ghana is difficult—the heat, the food, the threat of disease, the soldiers on the roads, the schools. Gordo fits in more easily than Astrid, ... Read more

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  • Rupert's Land

    by Meredith Quartermain ...
    At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritarian father, Cora Wagoner daydreams about what it would be like to abandon society altogether and join one of the Indian tribes she’s read so much about.Saddened by struggles with Indian Agent restrictions, Hunter George wonders why his father doesn’t ... Read more

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  • Those Who Know

    20th Anniversary Edition

    by Dianne Meili ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Trade Non-Fiction Book Award at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards. The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices for the betterment of not just their people, but all humankind. First published in 1991, Dianne Meili’s book ... Read more

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  • Aboriginal Canada Revisited

    Edited by Kerstin Knopf ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian ... Read more

    $16.59 USD