Canadian History
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From ![]() Alberta |
Reading nearly fifty years of Canadian Dimension’s eye on Alberta is both sobering and heartening. Sobering because one realizes how little the province’s political culture and … | Trevor W. Harrison | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! AlbertaFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird examines Alberta’s Trans-Canada Highway journey to the 1956 completion of its 536-kilometre stretch through the Rockies. | Craig Baird | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Alexander MackenzieFrom: The Prime Ministers |
In this chapter, Stewart examines the premiership of Alexander Mackenzie, Canada’s second prime minister, who served from 1873 to 1878. | J.D.M. Stewart | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Six Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917From: Any Other Way |
The transcription of police testimony given in court after a series of arrests were made in the Albert Lane in the spring of 1917. | Steven Maynard | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() All for What?From: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add | |
![]() Almost Feral |
On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. … | Gemma Hickey | 264 | 2019 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Alone |
The chapter reflects on Margie’s imaginative world as a teenager, Jennifer’s departure from the north to go to school in British Columbia, their fathers transfer to the Department of … | Margaret Macpherson | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Alone and very much in need of help”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham traces the political career of James Allan Coutts, a Liberal from Nanton, Alberta, through the early 1970s. He examines why Alberta proved hostile to Liberals, how Pierre … | Ron Graham | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Alternative Development and the Social Economy |
Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add | |
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From ![]() Alternative HistoriesFrom: The Ward |
Michael McClelland | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() Althea Guiboche, Winnipeg, Métis/Ojibwe/Salteaux“I had three babies under three years old and I was homeless.” From: How We Go Home |
Althea Guiboche, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of Métis/Ojibwe/Salteaux descent. She is a respected community advocate for homeless in the North End of Winnipeg, an experience she understands … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() American Power Comes to Montreal |
This chapter explores the reasons for and impact of a host of important American politicians, radical abolitionists, bankers, newspaper editors, treasury agents, arms manufacturers, and Federal … | Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() Ample Land LeftFrom: Cheated |
Chapter Five discusses the rapid growth of settlers in Western Canada and the subsequent displacement of Indigenous reserves. Conservative leader at the time Richard S. Lake is discussed. | Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen | 25 | 2023 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() An Ancient Mariner |
Looks at Sir William Phips’s (1651-1695) connection to Oak Island and the evidence to his connection and his history of treasure seeking | Graham Harris | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington AvenueFrom: Any Other Way |
Diana Meridith recalls the experience of livng in a lesbian collective house in downtown Toronto in the 1980s. | Diana Meredith | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |


















