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  • Inventing Academic Freedom

    The 1968 Strax Affair at the University of New Brunswick

    by Peter C. Kent ...
    In 1968, there was political ferment everywhere. In Paris, students were in the streets. In the U.S., civil rights, the Vietnam War, and protests against the draft brought out millions. In this atmosphere, a young Jewish-American professor in the quiet town of Fredericton, New Brunswick sparked a controversy that established the principles of academic freedom on Canadian campuses.Norman Strax was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Inventing Academic Freedom

    The 1968 Strax Affair at the University of New Brunswick

    by Peter C. Kent ...
    In 1968, there was political ferment everywhere. In Paris, students were in the streets. In the U.S., civil rights, the Vietnam War, and protests against the draft brought out millions. In this atmosphere, a young Jewish-American professor in the quiet town of Fredericton, New Brunswick sparked a controversy that established the principles of academic freedom on Canadian campuses.Norman Strax was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Along the Shore

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  • Drop Dead

    A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada

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    Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.Take a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable ... Read more

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  • The University of Toronto

    A History, Second Edition

    by Martin L. Friedland ...
    The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and ideas into a remarkable synthesis. His scholarly yet highly readable account presents colourful presidents ... Read more

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  • Vertical Horizons

    The History of Okanagan Helicopters

    by Douglas M. Grant ...
    "Looking back over thirty years of flying for Okanagan, I see the experience has given me an interesting life. I have never really considered flying as work. It is more a way of life, a way of life that nourishes a free spirit, something that not many jobs can give you. I just cannot imagine anything I would... rather have done or any company I would have rather worked for."--Jim Reid, pilotIn ... Read more

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  • What We Learned

    Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

    by Helen Raptis ...
    Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves.In What We ... Read more

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  • Ontario Boys

    Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945--1960

    by Christopher J. Greig ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity, instability, and gender anxiety brought on by depression-era and wartime disruptions in marital, familial, and labour relations, as ... Read more

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  • Halfway up Parnassus

    A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

    by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, ... Read more

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  • A Path Not Strewn With Roses

    One Hundred Years of Women at the University of Toronto 1884-1984

    by Anne Rochon Ford ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-scale history of women at the University of Toronto. It is, rather, a preliminary attempt to gather together some of the materials of fundamental significance to women's experience at this University. ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    by Herbert M. Kliebard ...
    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

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