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Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an element of the culture of Newfoundland and...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2009-10-19
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2009-09-15
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Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2009-09-08
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This is a collection of true Newfoundland and Labrador stories about crime and punishment on land and sea. Included here are tales of murder, mutiny, and smuggling on the high seas, as well as riots, assaults, and frauds perpetrated in some of the strangest criminal...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2009-09-08
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Gwendolyn Poole Molnar’s recollections offer us a rare look into the life of a child growing up in Pilley’s Island in the first decades of the twentieth century, before roads, electricity, and telephones connected the island community to its Newfoundland neighbours....
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2009-08-21
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“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-10
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Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-04
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In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-03
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Life Writing
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Victoria’s Chinatown is Canada’s oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind the doors of the 29 private clubs that make up the Chinese Consolidated...
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Touchwood Editions
Parution :
2009-08-01
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This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America,...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2009-07-01
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During World War II St. John’s, Newfoundland played a critical role in the fight against Nazi Germany. Seamen from all over the world sailed to and from the old seaport, chosen for duty because it was closest to Europe and because its people knew both the peril and...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2009-06-18
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This is the first collection written by an Aboriginal Canadian on the Aboriginal understanding of history and the colonial experience. These essays, stories, lectures, and poems, written over the last twenty years by Georges Sioui, present and explore the perspectives...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2009-02-04
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, Saskatchewan was one of the fastest growing provinces in the country. In the early 1900s, it revolutionized the Canadian political landscape and gave rise to socialist governments that continue to influence Canadian politics today....
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2008-11-01
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In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-09-13
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The Ryan's Commander capsized off Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, on September 19, 2004. In the tragic wreck, two brothers were lost: Dave and Joe “June” Ryan. A federal report concluded that vessel design was one of the factors causing the capsizing.The family of the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-09-03
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A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-04-18
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You think you’ve heard everything about Newfoundland and Labrador, but…
Have you had a meal of padre?
Have you ever seen a shalandi?
Have you heard of basket soup?
Would you find the term dry dough offensive?
You’ve tried figgy duff, but have you eaten cod...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838.The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2008-02-05
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Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. His books, The Indians of Canada and People of the Twilight, are classics. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2008-01-01
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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2007-05-01
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