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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
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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...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2019-03-15
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The year 2019 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Killdevil Camp and Conference Centre, situated in the scenic Bonne Bay area of Lomond, Newfoundland and Labrador, in Gros Morne National Park.
The twofold purpose of this book is to tell when and how the site was acquired...
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Flanker Press
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2019-03-13
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The year 2019 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Killdevil Camp and Conference Centre, situated in the scenic Bonne Bay area of Lomond, Newfoundland and Labrador, in Gros Morne National Park. The twofold purpose of this book is to tell when and how the site was acquired...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2019-03-13
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Every February, tens of thousands from all over the globe flock to St. Boniface, Manitoba, to attend the largest winter celebration in Western Canada—Festival du Voyageur. For its duration, these visitors can experience the customs and ways of our voyageur ancestors,...
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Éditions des Plaines
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2019-02-18
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Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous...
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University of Regina Press
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2019-02-16
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Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2019-02-16
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This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Elizabeth A. Fenn, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary...
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U of R Press
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2019-02-16
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Twelve-year-old Leslie Mezei, a lively, curious boy, doesn’t realize how precarious his life is as a Jew in German-occupied Hungary in 1944. His older sister Magda, aware of the growing danger from Nazis and Hungarian fascists, takes charge and bravely tries to direct...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2019-02-15
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Fleeing Germany after the violence of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, young Joseph and his family find safety in Belgium, but all too soon they have to escape again — this time to France — when the Germans occupy Belgium in 1940. When the Germans then conquer France...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2018-11-01
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Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered,...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2018-11-01
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A timely, intriguing collection of the overlooked stories of Victoria’s pioneers, trailblazers, and community builders who were also diverse people of colour.Often described as “more English than the English,” the city of Victoria has a much more...
Editeur :
Touchwood Editions
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2018-10-30
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A woman’s journey to uncover the fate of seven RCAF crewmen who perished in the Second World War.For most of her life, Lisa Russ knew little about her second cousin, Robert “Bud” George Alfred Burt. All she had were two grainy photos, a poem Bud had written shortly...
Editeur :
Heritage House
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2018-10-26
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A celebration of thirty-two heroes of the First World War enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.Praise for Remembered in Bronze and Stone:“A remarkable look at the many ways we honoured our war dead.”—Canada’s History“A fine tribute and a call to current and future...
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Heritage House
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2018-10-26
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Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2018-10-16
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Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women toiled in Quebec’s cotton mills, representing more than half the industry’s...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
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2018-10-15
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Brought together for the first time, the remarkable and mostly unacknowledged contributions, experiences, and remembrances of warfare by the people of Northeastern Ontario.
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2018-10-09
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The Homesteaders covers the whole settler experience, beginning in what is now Saskatchewan during the year Canada was founded and continuing through the immigration boom preceding the First World War. Based on a remarkable collection of interviews conducted in the...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2018-10-06
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The Homesteaders covers the whole settler experience, beginning in what is now Saskatchewan during the year Canada was founded and continuing through the immigration boom preceding the First World War. Based on a remarkable collection of interviews conducted in the...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2018-10-06
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