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  • Embedded

    Two Journalists, a Burlesque Star, and the Expedition to Oust Louis Riel

    by Ted Glenn ...
    A first-hand chronicle of Wolseley’s expedition to end Riel’s Red River Rebellion by a remarkable trio embedded on the mission.In the spring of 1870, two reporters set off from Toronto to cover one of the biggest stories in Canadian history: Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s 1870 expedition to Red River. Over the course of six months, the Daily Telegraph’s Robert Cunningham and the Globe’s Molyneux St. ... Read more

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  • A Very Canadian Coup

    The Rise and Demise of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, 1894–1896

    by Ted Glenn ...
    A fresh take on the Manitoba schools question and the Conservative Coup that toppled Canada’s fifth prime minister.When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada’s fifth prime minister in December 1894, everyone — including Bowell — expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels on the Conservative wagon until a spring election.Plans for a quiet caretakership were dashed in January 1895 ... Read more

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  • Riding into Battle

    Canadian Cyclists in the Great War

    by Ted Glenn ...
    The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.Canada’s Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great War, Canada’s cycling troops finally came into their own.At Amiens, Cambrai, and especially the Pursuit from the ... Read more

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  • John A

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  • The National Dream

    The Great Railway, 1871-1881

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    In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision—bold to the point of recklessness—was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation.Using primary sources—diaries, letters, unpublished ... Read more

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  • John A. Macdonald

    Canada's First Prime Minister

    by Ged Martin ...
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  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939

    The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 1

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    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities.For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, ... Read more

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    The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec

    by Lucille H. Campey ...
    Series Book 2 - The English in Canada
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  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

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    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

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  • The Lost Prime Ministers

    Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

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    After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years.From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in ... Read more

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