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  • The Daily Plebiscite

    Federalism, Nationalism, and Canada

    by David Cameron ...
    Series series Political Development: Comparative Perspectives
    From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was an active participant and observer of Canada’s crisis of national unity. As a political scientist and former senior public servant, Cameron remains one of the most astute and respected analysts of Canadian federalism.This volume assembles some of Cameron ... Read more

    $30.99 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

  • Making a Global City

    How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

    by Robert Vipond ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Read more

    $33.09 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

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  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

    Third Edition

    by Graham Harris, Les MacPhie ...
    Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia's Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously unknown story of how complex and expensive engineering work was undertaken to create an elaborate flood tunnel on the island. Built to frustrate treasure seekers attempting to get at the valuables buried decades ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Canada's Odyssey

    A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests

    by Peter H. Russell ...
    150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation.In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Isaac Brock

    Canada's Hero in the War of 1812

    by Cheryl MacDonald ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Isaac Brock is the best-known figure of the War of 1812. He is widely credited as the military leader who frustrated the United States in its ambition to invade and take over Canada.Brock was born in the English Channel Island of Guernsey, where his limited combat experience did nothing to shake his moxy. Before coming to Canada, he faced a challenge to duel; when he insisted the other man be a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power Failure?

    by Richard Starr ...
    For most of its history, Nova Scotia's leaders have tried to exploit the province's energy resources for jobs, revenue and political reward. For three centuries politicians and other prominent players have clashed over the ownership, control and development of energy resources--coal, electric power, offshore petroleum. This book traces the interplay between politics and energy and documents the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Willowdale

    Yesterday's Farms, Today's Legacy

    by Scott Kennedy ...
    In 1855, Willowdale's post office opened in Jacob Cummer's store on Yonge Street. Today, streets in Toronto's community of Willowdale are peppered with the names of the early farm families of North York, such as the Shepards, Finches, and Kennedys.Author Scott Kennedy's intriguing stories embrace the evolution of Willowdale from the earliest acquisition of land to today's urban environment. You ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last of the Wild Rivers

    The Past, Present, and Future of the Rivière du Moine Watershed

    by Wallace A Schaber ...
    For four hundred years, the journals of all the great explorers of Canada have mentioned the Deux Joachims portage and the wild Rivière du Moine as they made their way west to discover riches, routes, or souls to save. The Du Moine is the last of the ten major Quebec tributaries of the Ottawa River to resist the development threats of hydro, mining, and modern colonization. Recent conservation ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Public intellectual in Canada

    by Nelson Wiseman ...
    This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly changing and diverse society. Boasting an all-star cast of contributors – including some of Canada’s most prominent writers, journalists, and academics – it probes the role of public discourse and intellectual persuasion in shaping Canada’s past, present, and future.The Public ... Read more

    $39.59 USD