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  • The Hue of Calm Skies

    A Heartfelt Love Story about Healing, Hope, and the Beauty of Staying

    Some journeys take us far from where we began. Others quietly remind us where we truly belong.After years of building a successful career as a photographer in the city, Leah Mercer returns to the peaceful town of Briarhaven following the passing of her beloved grandmother. Expecting only to settle the family estate and leave, she instead finds herself surrounded by familiar faces, treasured ... Read more

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  • The Government of Natural Resources

    Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939

    Translated by Käthe Roth ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    The Government of Natural Resources explores scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role.At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services. These new services ... Read more

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    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

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  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

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  • From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City

    A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury

    From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian ... Read more

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  • Fossilized

    Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces

    Series series Nature | History | Society
    Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Canada’s largest oil-producing provinces underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Yet oil’s economic miracle obscured its ecological costs. Fossilized traces this development trajectory, assessing how the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador offered extensive support for oil-industry development, ... Read more

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  • Independent Quebec, An

    The past, the present and the future

    Translated by Robin Philpot ...
    For the first time, Jacques Parizeau shares his views on Quebec's recent history and its future. As chief economics advisor to Quebec premiers in the 1960s, Jacques Parizeau was instrumental in bringing about Quebe's Quiet Revolution. As René Lévesque's Finance Minister from 1976 through 1984, he showed that sovereigntists could govern Quebec and ensure economic viability. As Premier, he brought ... Read more

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  • Hard Lessons

    The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

    This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Read more

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  • The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles

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    The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion.The Oak Ridges Moraine ... Read more

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  • Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century

    by Neil S Forkey ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts.Forkey's engaging survey addresses ... Read more

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  • On the Land

    Confronting the Challenges to Aboriginal Self-Determination

    It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength.If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own.The James Bay Cree consider Hydro Quebec’s "mad plans to engineer and dam the vast ecosystem" where they have lived for ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD