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Award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of the Preston area, the organizations and churches that helped bolster the population, and the struggles, successes, and personal stories of several Preston-area residents.
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Nimbus
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2021-01-26
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WINNER Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER CLIO History Prize (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER Governor...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2020-10-09
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Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2020-08-31
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Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2020-08-26
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From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and...
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AU Press
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2020-07-28
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The Newfoundland and Labrador of yesterday was more colourful than you might remember, and no one is more qualified to be your guide through the strange terrain of local history than folklorist and storyteller Dale Jarvis. In this book, you will come face to face with...
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Flanker Press
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2020-06-08
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Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: “How can I/we participate in...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2020-05-29
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From award-winning CBC radio documentarian Karin Wells comes The Abortion Caravan, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society Award's Alison Prentice Award.
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set...
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Second Story Press
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2020-04-21
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This engaging study of a still active women's organization is more than a centennial history to make its members proud. It also provides a lively exploration of a unique organization founded by early women leaders in higher education who offered friendship, community...
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Second Story Press
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2020-04-21
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Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures—past and present—which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. Exploring the connections,...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people....
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U of R Press
Parution :
2019-11-23
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Over the past fifty years, Canada’s Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a “super-province” delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. This...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
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2019-11-15
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The third instalment in Jim Blanchard’s popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2019-09-06
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An entertaining, fast-paced look at early ranching in British Columbia.Frontier historian Ken Mather is known for his fascinating, in-depth profiles of the men and women who established a distinctive ranching culture in Western Canada over a hundred years ago. Now, in...
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Heritage House
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2019-06-25
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A smart, concise analysis of the legend of Slumach’s Gold, which strives to uncover the truth behind this mythical gold deposit said to be hidden north of Pitt Lake.
British Columbia is gold country, and with gold comes legends that have been passed down...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2019-05-21
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When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962.Drawn from Terry Gainer’s personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and...
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RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
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2019-05-21
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Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, she has been a subject...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2019-05-03
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Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2019-03-16
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Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union in 1948 were uninformed and gullible. Raymond Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that voters fully understood the issues at stake in both cases, and women...
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University of Regina Press
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2019-03-16
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Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of communal solidarity that dealt with the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2019-03-15
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