Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2012-05-09

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Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2012-05-01
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years is a compelling mix of historical narrative, personal anecdote, and expert, local knowledge. Illustrated with more than 200 new images--the author's own watercolours and brush-and-ink drawings as well as archival and private...

Editeur : Whitecap Books
Parution : 2012-03-15

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The First World War profoundly affected every community in Canada. In Regina, the politics of national identity, the rural myth, and the social gospel all lent a distinctive flavour to the city’s experience of the Great War. For many Reginans, the fight against German...

Editeur : University of Manitoba Press
Parution : 2011-11-30

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The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army.The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the...

Editeur : Baraka Books
Parution : 2011-11-10

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From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-11-01

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From bestselling author Clarence Vautier comes more stories of unsung heroes: the fishermen who made a living off the sea in Atlantic Canada. These stories are the biographies, family histories, and photograph collections of twenty-two highliners. During the twentieth...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-10-27

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New Edition as part City of Vancouver’s Legacy Book Project, with foreword by historian Daniel Francis Who Killed Janet Smith? examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian history: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2011-10-21

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Short listed for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards:Non-Fiction Award, Saskatoon Award, Book of the Year Award. On the morning of 5 December 1933, a young RCMP constable discovered a grisly scene in the Avalon schoolyard in rural Saskatchewan. A young boy lay dead in a rented...

Editeur : Fifth House Books
Parution : 2011-09-28

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The Great Depression of the 1930s brought drought, unemployment, and poverty to the West, and the token wages from the government's "make work" projects only fanned the flames of unrest. In 1935, this unrest took on a purpose: to march on Ottawa and demand a solution...

Editeur : Fifth House Books
Parution : 2011-09-28

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Children in their formative years often learned secrets and gained an understanding of a wider world through the hole in the ceiling. Now as adults, they share for the first time their cherished memories of overheard conversations that have shaped their lives—stories of...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-09-21

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In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and...

Editeur : Heritage House
Parution : 2011-09-15

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Barr’d Islands: From English Roots is a history of early English settlement in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, with a focus onBarr’d Islands, a small fishing community on Fogo Island. Explore the day-to-day lives of a charitable, community-minded people whose hardships...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-07-22

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The story of Bay Roberts is one of an ordinary people who lived through a turbulent and extraordinary past. Adventure, murder, religious strife, inventions, successful local newspapers, and enterprise make up the collective history of a community thriving in...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-07-22

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The history of Bell Island, Newfoundland, is an amazing one of a strong and courageous people who overcame the challenge of creating a community exposed to the mighty North Atlantic Ocean. Bell Island: Dawn of First Light covers the first permanent European settlers who...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-07-22

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“Because of the scarcity of cod in Conception Bay in the early 1920s, my father decided to go to the Labrador coast and try his luck as hundreds of others were doing. He went as a skipper with his own fishing crew. Mother used to go along to save the expense of a cook...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-06-24

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The professional biography of influential Canadian educator and statesman, Tom Symons. Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada’s pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2011-06-04

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“It was the wild west, as all fished in a totally unregulated way in a free-for-all.” For centuries, fishermen the world over have been prosecuting the waters teeming with cod from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador. The growing demand for fish in world...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-05-24

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Many people on Canada’s east coast, the maritime regions, have experienced the temperament of the North Atlantic Ocean: beautiful, moody, mysterious. The cold Atlantic has a capacity, with its tremendous force and power, to take human life seemingly at will; however, it...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-05-09

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“Many of Nova Scotia's best sports stories have never entirely been told, at least not to the extent they deserve.”In Inside the Game, sports columnist Chris Cochrane goes beyond the headlines to tell the real stories behind ten of the province's most memorable sporting...

Editeur : Nimbus
Parution : 2011-05-05

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