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  • Prayers, Petitions, and Protests

    The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910-1928

    by Jack D. Cecillon ...
    In 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued the controversial Regulation 17 in an attempt to improve the quality of English-language teaching in the province, while effectively restricting French-language instruction within bilingual schools. Prayers, Petitions, and Protests explores popular reaction to the policy in the Windsor border area and the radical opposition of the Catholic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Richard Palmisano ...
    When one thinks of Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition, memories of bright lights, cotton candy, the rush of people, and the excitement of rides spring to mind. But when the lights go down and the people head home, the fairground takes on a life of its own. The spirits that dwell there from the exhibition's long history come out to play and work, even to scare the occasional employee.The ... Read more

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  • Fearful Symmetry - the Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values

    by Brian Lee Crowley ...
    In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of "makers" transformed itself into a nation of "takers". Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back - back to a time when Canadians were less willing to rely on the state for support; when people went where the work was rather than waiting for ... Read more

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  • Nation Builders

    Barnardo Children in Canada

    by Gail H. Corbett ...
    This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada. Through first-hand accounts and archived materials, Corbett sensitively and accurately records the pilgrimage of the children who, against great odds, proved that Canada was the ... Read more

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  • Ridgeway

    The American Fenian Invasion And The 1866 Battle That Made Canad

    by Peter Vronsky ...
    In this groundbreaking narrative, historian, investigative journalist and filmmaker Peter Vronsky uncovers the hidden history of the Battle of Ridgeway and explores its significance to Canada’s nation-building myths and traditions. On June 1, 1866, more than 1,000 Fenian insurgents invaded Canada across the Niagara River from Buffalo, N.Y. The Fenians were mostly battle-hardened Civil War veterans ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Time Such as There Never Was Before

    Canada After the Great War

    by Alan Bowker ...
    Ottawa Book Award 2015 — ShortlistedBetween 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”The war ... Read more

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  • The Mass Media in Canada

    Fourth Edition

    by Mary Vipond ...
    Canada has one of the most advanced mass-media systems in the world, which allows Canadians more access to American culture via television, the movies, and the Internet than ever before. At the same time, governments support the production and distribution of Canadian content to Canadians.In this fully updated fourth edition, Mary Vipond traces the rise of the traditional mass media in Canada, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945

    From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan

    by George S. MacDonell ...
    This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. ... Read more

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  • Mohawks on the Nile

    Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885

    by Carl Benn ...
    Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen becuase of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part of the Canadian Voyageur Contingent, which transported British troops on a fleet of whaleboats ... Read more

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  • The Lumberjacks

    by Donald MacKay ...
    Short-listed for the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Non-FictionThe 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherons – and, more recently, lumberjacks, working in the vast forests of eastern Canada and British Columbia.Across the country, farm boys would go to ... Read more

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  • NO MEANS NO, THE KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG AND THE FIGHT FOR RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY

    by DAVID PEERLA ...
    In 2006, the remote Ontario First Nation of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) said no to a mining company, was sued for $10 billion, had its leaders found in contempt of court and jailed but eventually prevailed when, three years later, the Ontario government paid the company $5 million to go away. This is how it happened. ... Read more

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  • 1000 Questions About Canada

    Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture

    by John Robert Colombo ...
    What are "snow worms"?Are there more moose than people in the Yukon?What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"?Where will you find the world’s largest perogy?Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him?What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s favourite snack food?Which province was the last to shift traffic from the left-hand side of the road to the right?These are some of the questions that are ... Read more

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