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  • The Slow Rush of Colonization

    Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790

    by Thomas Peace ...
    In 1760, after Montcalm’s defeat at the Plains of Abraham, the French Empire was definitively expelled from the Saint Lawrence Valley.This history is well known.Less well known is that this decisive victory had its roots almost a hundred years earlier, when settler colonial systems of power first took root on the peripheries of the Maritime Peninsula (the places known today as Quebec, Maritime ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Behind the Bricks

    The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School

    by Richard W. Hill Sr., Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, Jennifer Pettit ...
    From the outside, the Mohawk Institute looks like a large and welcoming school building. When one looks behind the bricks of the school, however, a much different story becomes apparent. Conceived and overseen by Six Nations community member Richard W. Hill Sr., Behind the Bricks is an important work that provides deep insight into the Mohawk Institute, Canada's first, and longest-running, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • From Huronia to Wendakes

    Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900

    Edited by Thomas Peace, Kathryn Labelle ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives of European-Native encounters, colonialism, and conquest, the Wendats’ later experiences remain largely ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Moving Natures

    Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History

    by Jay Young, Thomas Peace, Jim Clifford, Judy Burns, Ken Cruikshank, Andrew Watson, Merle Massie, Daniel Macfarlane0, Tor H. Oiamo1, Don Lafreniere2, Joy Parr3, J. I. Little4, Jessica Dunkin5, Elizabeth L. Jewett6, Elsa Lam7, Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert8 ...
    Series Book 5 - Canadian History and Environment
    Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928

    The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy

    by William C. Wicken ...
    In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their people had signed with the British in 1752. Using this testimony as a starting point, William Wicken ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • From New Peoples to New Nations

    Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries

    by Gerhard J. Ens, Joe Sawchuk ...
    From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War

    by D. Peter MacLeod, Canadian War Museum ...
    The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian history. The book looks at the social and economic impact of the war on both men and women in Canadian Iroquois communities.The Canadian Iroquois provides an enhanced appreciation both of the role of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promise of Canada

    People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

    by Charlotte Gray ...
    What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories.From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Canadian History For Dummies

    by Will Ferguson ...
    A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Valley of the Birdtail

    An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

    by Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson ...
    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeWinner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book PrizeWinner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous WriterWinner – 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local HistoryWinner – 2023 Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concord... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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