Industrialization
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From  NEW! Capitalist Confederated CanadaThe Emergence of Organized Labour and Class Conflict, 1870-90 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the tumult of the 1870s in Canada, including the Pacific Scandal of 1873, Indigenous resistance in the North-West and the global financial pandemic from 1873 to 1897, which … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1Deep Roots From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 |
This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 11: Canadian Capital and the Global South, 1900-30 |
This chapter recounts how from the 1890s–1920s, Canadian capital went abroad and sugar, banking, and railway ventures across Cuba and the West Indies connected Canadian business internationally. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 14: Class Conflict and SocialistsThe Era of World War and Revolution |
The chapter discusses how early-twentieth-century labour militancy —from the rise of the AFL to the Winnipeg General Strike — took place alongside Indigenous resistance but ultimately … | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 |
This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 17: On the Eve of the Great DepressionWarning Signs in the 1920s |
This chapter details how the speculation and expansion of the 1920s gave way to overproduction, and reliance on exports, as increasing debt made the economy acutely vulnerable to the 1929 crash … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Crothers Woods and Beechwood Wetland |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the section of the Don River watershed where visitors will discover Crothers Woods, Beechwood Wetland, Cottonwood Flats, and Sun Valley. He discusses how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 18: Economic CollapseThe Great Depression of the 1930s |
This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2Mining from Colony to Nation From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses mining in Canada throughout the 19th century. Topics discussed include coal mining in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and the Yukon gold rush. The authors discuss the political, … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 42 | 2021 | $4.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed1937, a Year of Rebellion |
This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3Mining and the Industrial Boom From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses the peak of mining in Canada during the early 20th century. Topics discussed in this chapter include mining disasters that occurred during the early 20th century, the … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 52 | 2021 | $5.20 Add |
