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A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2018-03-16
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For over a century now, the stately and prestigious Château Frontenac, which graces one of the most beautiful sites in Quebec City, has captured the imagination of visitors from all over the world. This is the fascinating story of how the Château's architecture has...
Editeur :
Éditions Continuité
Parution :
2018-01-25
Collection :
The Great Hotels of Canada
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Some liken formal histories to four-lane highways. Nick Fonda answers with a meandering country road, quietly charming, with a human face.
If all politics is local, so all history is local… and anecdotal. As the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs said, anecdotes are the...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-10-15
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The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-10-12
Collection :
Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories
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A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northern Canada.
As the...
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University of Regina Press
Parution :
2017-10-07
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A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northern Canada.
As the...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2017-10-07
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Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner’s son had been missing for days....
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-10-06
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Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner’s son had been missing for days....
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-10-06
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Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin--the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity,...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2017-09-23
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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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History has told us in unambiguous terms that the statistics from July 1, 1916, were grim and shocking. Most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can recite the facts on cue: 801 men went “over the top” at Beaumont-Hamel, France; all but sixty-eight were either killed or...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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History has told us in unambiguous terms that the statistics from July 1, 1916, were grim and shocking. Most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can recite the facts on cue: 801 men went “over the top” at Beaumont-Hamel, France; all but sixty-eight were either killed or...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies.The story of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only continuously operating federal government horse ranch in...
Editeur :
RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Parution :
2017-09-12
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From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured immigrants could access books in their own languages, to the present day as an active community hub, the library has been responsible for many groundbreaking Canadian firsts. The Regina Public Library implemented the...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2017-09-09
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From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured immigrants could access books in their own languages, to the present day as an active community hub, the library has been responsible for many groundbreaking Canadian firsts. The Regina Public Library implemented the...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2017-09-09
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Snacks is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can’t put them down.
Janis Thiessen profiles several iconic Canadian snack food companies, including Old Dutch Potato Chips, Hawkins Cheezies,...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-09-08
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Louis Riel, prophet of the new world and founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has challenged Canadian politics, history and religion since the early years of Confederation. In Canada’s most important and controversial state trial, Riel was found guilty of “high...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2017-06-15
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An insightful look at the first mayor of Nanaimo, BC, drawing heavily on his prolific and insightful written observations.Mark Bate, elected Nanaimo’s first mayor in 1875, was a renaissance man. He loved music, writing, literature, the outdoors, community affairs, and...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2017-05-30
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Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-05-10
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During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organized by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. The CSFS aimed its message at progressive Canadians, hoping to convince them that the USSR was an egalitarian...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-05-10
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