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A history of Saskatchewan’s highest court on its centennial, The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan places the court within the context of Canadian law and shows how the court contributed to the province’s legal, political, and social development. Tying together legal...
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U of R Press
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2018-09-29
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A history of Saskatchewan’s highest court on its centennial, The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan places the court within the context of Canadian law and shows how the court contributed to the province’s legal, political, and social development. Tying together legal...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2018-09-29
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From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor ("extermination by hunger"), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Although the Soviet government denied it, news about the tragedy got out and Canadians came to learn about the famine from...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2018-09-29
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From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor ("extermination by hunger"), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Although the Soviet government denied it, news about the tragedy got out and Canadians came to learn about the famine from...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2018-09-29
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During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation...
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AU Press
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2018-09-21
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During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values....
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University of Manitoba Press
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2018-08-24
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In this third volume ofIn Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the...
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Inhabit Media
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2018-08-03
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Bronia Jablon is separated from her family, and even her husband has escaped into the woods without her. It is 1942, the height of Nazi persecution in Poland, andBronia and her three-year-old daughter, Lucy, wonder how they will survive each day. Should they hide in...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2018-08-01
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The North Atlantic has always been a place of danger, mystery, and fear. From the era of the early explorers to modern-day seamen, the brooding ocean finds a way to collect its wages from those daring enough to sail out into its vastness. Deemed the stormiest ocean on...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-07-04
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The North Atlantic has always been a place of danger, mystery, and fear. From the era of the early explorers to modern-day seamen, the brooding ocean finds a way to collect its wages from those daring enough to sail out into its vastness. Deemed the stormiest ocean on...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-07-04
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In this deeply engaging oral history, Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams), Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, recounts the history of the Michi Saagiig Nisnaabeg, tracing through personal and historical events, and presenting what...
Editeur :
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Parution :
2018-06-15
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Winner (second prize), 2019 British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingA revealing history of the ancient trail that served as a major transportation route between Washington and British Columbia and shaped the cultural and economic ties between...
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Heritage House
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2018-06-12
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One man retraces the ancient voyages of Captain Vancouver alone in his sailboat in this updated edition of a classic travelogue.As Sam McKinney retraced the explorations of Captain George Vancouver and his men from Puget Sound to Queen Charlotte Sound he wondered,...
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Touchwood Editions
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2018-06-12
ePub
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The story of one family's settlement in the Cariboo and the culture of early sawmills that developed around them.In 1922, the Judson family arrived in the Cariboo by covered wagon.The stories of their life on the remote homestead at Ruth Lake is told through this...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2018-05-21
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The populist who mobilized farmers to support a socialist platform, George Hara Williams was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M.J. Coldwell just as Saskatchewan’s CCF was on the threshold of power.
“There are few people more attuned to the history of the populist...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2018-05-19
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George Hara Williams was the most successful of the early leaders of the CCF in Saskatchewan. But his role in the party was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M. J. Coldwell, and now he is almost forgotten. The populist who mobilized farmers of the province to support a...
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University of Regina Press
Parution :
2018-05-19
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Delving into historical accounts of the 1930s, Drought and Depression examines the cataclysmic effects of the Dust Bowl on the Canadian Prairies.
The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated...
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University of Regina Press
Parution :
2018-04-28
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The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Canadian Prairies. It was a region in the grips of an environmental disaster made even worse by the economic effects of the Depression. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes fell by half...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2018-04-28
Collection :
History of the Prairie West
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During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with the Ontario government of Premier William Davis to fully implement equality...
Editeur :
Second Story Press
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2018-04-24
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A Feminist History Society Book
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A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and ’40s.When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC’s West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a hub of mining activity. Shirley’s father, a...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2018-04-23
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