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  • Settling and Unsettling Memories

    Essays in Canadian Public History

    by Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins ...
    Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field.With increasing debates surrounding how ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Hell or High Water

    My Life in and out of Politics

    by Paul Martin ...
    National bestsellerPaul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)“From the moment I flipped his truck on the road home to Morinville…” (Chapter 3)“When I came back into Aquin’s headquarters I had a broken nose.” (Chapter 4 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Penguin History of Canada

    by Robert Bothwell ...
    Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge north but with most of its population in the south, hugging the U.S. border. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the 21st century, a haven of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Cool Heads at Kingston Pen

    by Ron Haggart ...
    "Riveting, insightful, and human." — Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator of Canada In April 1971, journalist Ron Haggart helped resolve one of Canada’s most serious prison riots. When maximum-security Kingston Penitentiary fell under the control of 500 rioting prisoners, the inmates summoned his help. As a crusading newspaper columnist and police watchdog with a reputation for fairness, he ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Two Generals

    by Scott Chantler ...
    A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective.In March of 1943, Scott Chantler's grandfather, Law Chantler, shipped out across the Atlantic for active service with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along with his best friend, Jack, a fellow officer. Not long afterward, they would find themselves making a rocky ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The History of Canada Series: War in the St. Lawrence

    The Forgotten U-boat Battles On Canada's Shores

    by Roger Sarty ...
    Series series History of Canada
    From 1942 to 1944, 15 German submarines destroyed or severely damaged 27 ships, including three Canadian warships, a U.S. Army troop transport, and the Newfoundland ferry Caribou. More than 250 lives were lost. It was the only battle of the twentieth century to take place within Canada’s boundaries, and the only battle to be fought almost exclusively by Canadian forces under Canadian, rather than ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dancing in the Sky

    The Royal Flying Corps in Canada

    by C.W. Hunt ...
    Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States.The results enabled the Allies to regain ... Read more

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  • Imaginary Line

    Life on an Unfinished Border

    by Jacques Poitras ...
    Shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOnce, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between countries split it down the middle. From that inauspicious start, the Maine-New Brunswick border, the first boundary to be drawn between the two nations, has served ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Early Voices

    Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639-1914

    by Mary Alice Downie ...
    This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman's wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists

    The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

    by Margo Goodhand ...
    In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600.In Runaway Wives and Rogue ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dynasties and Interludes

    Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics

    by Lawrence LeDuc, Jon H. Pammett, Judith I. McKenzie, André Turcotte ...
    Dynasties and Interludes provides a comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments. Its principal argument is that the Canadian political landscape has consisted of long periods of hegemony of a single party and/or leader (dynasties), punctuated by short, sharp disruptions brought about by the sudden rise of new ... Read more

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