Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mireille mclaughlin”
Skip side bar filters

  • Sustaining the Nation

    The Making and Moving of Language and Nation

    by Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin, Hubert Noël ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources. It argues that "francophone ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Beothuk

    by Inebourg Marshall ...
    A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Lost Lemon Mine

    An Unsolved Mystery of the Old West

    by Ron Stewart ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors named Lemon and Blackjack found gold in the rugged mountains of southwestern Alberta or southeastern British Columbia. Shortly after, Blackjack died at Lemon`s hand. The distraught Lemon left the scene of the murder and never recovered his senses—or his ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Doryman

    by Maura Hanrahan ...
    The Doryman follows the true story of Richard Hanrahan from age nine when he is ripped away from the safety and comfort of the schoolroom to the seasonal shore fishery on Newfoundland's South Coast in the late 1800s. Later, hardening into premature manhood in the Banks fishery, he at once strives to mould himself into the stern shape of his fisherman father, yet longs to escape and find a better ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Town That Died

    The Story of the World's Greatest Man-Made Explosion Before Hiroshima

    by Michael J. Bird ...
    On Thursday, December 6th 1917, a French freighter loaded with over 2,500 tons of high explosives collided with another vessel in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and caught fire. At exactly 9.06am she blew up. The explosions, which was seen and heard fifty-two miles away, unleashed a man-made destructive force unequalled in power until the first atomic bomb. It levelled the Halifax waterfront ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • To Wawa with Love

    by Tom Douglas ...
    When Tom Douglas's father returned home after the Second World War, he was forced to move his family from Sault Ste. Marie north to Wawa, where he was the timekeeper at the Helen Mine. Although his parents were upset by the move, Tom was thrilled. In the forties, Wawa was still a wooden-sidewalked mud wallow of a mining town, and for a city kid, nothing could have been more exciting.To Wawa with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Winnipeg Beach

    Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967

    by Dale Barbour ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important intersection between classes, ethnic communities, and perhaps most importantly, between genders. In Winnipeg Beach, Dale Barbour takes us into the heart of this turn-of-the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • ’Tis a Wonderful Time to Be Alive

    Life in a Newfoundland Outport

    by Winston Oldford ...
    Tis a Wonderful Time to Be Alive is Winston Oldford’s personal account of growing up in Burnside, Bonavista Bay, in the 1940s and 1950s. The tiny community underwent a baptism by fire—literally—in the early twentieth century. Following a devastating forest fire in the area in 1912, the settlements of Squid Tickle and Holletts Cove became known, collectively, as Burnside. Today, with a population ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Man Proposes, God Disposes

    Recollections of a French Pioneer

    by Pierre Maturié ...
    Translated by Vivien Bosley ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Jailed for Possession

    Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961

    by Catherine Carstairs ...
    Series series Studies in Gender and History
    As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as the drive for Chinese Exclusion gathered steam, Canadians blamed the Chinese for the growing use of opium and other drugs, and parliamentarians passed ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Linguistic Rivalries

    Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts

    by Sonia N. Das ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal, Québec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In Montréal, a city with more ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Passage to Promise Land

    Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada

    by Vivienne Poy ...
    Spanning more than six decades, Passage to Promise Land is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, Vivienne Poy captures the social, political, and ethnic tensions of the period.Although the narratives included here represent women of all ... Read more

    $41.39 USD