Canadian History
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Bamboo CageThe P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 |
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed … | 147 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Bars and BathhousesFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter concentrates on Faces, an early West End gay club, and Wayne Harris, a club member who later became the focus of a major vice squad investigation. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly |
This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From  BC as an Intergovernmental Relations Player: Still Punching Below Its Weight? |
Historical review of intergovernmental relations leading to an assessment of the current government’s performance on the matter. | Hamish Telford | 20 | 2009 | $2.00 Add |
 Bearing WitnessJournalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion |
Bearing Witness tells the story of the Explosion, and the catastrophic damage it caused, through the eyes and words of more than two dozen journalists and record keepers who experienced it first … | Michael Dupuis | 221 | 2017 | View |
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From  Beatty Blackstock, 1890–1906 |
Focuses on W.H. Beatty and Tom Blackstock and their significant roles at the firm. Struggles over power in the firm between Beatty and Blackstock are also chronicled. Other prominent figures of … | C. Ian Kyer | 266 | 2013 | $26.60 Add |
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From  Becoming Ordinary50 Years of Arts and Culture |
It is in this departure from an assessment approach to culture that CD made its most interesting and useful contributions to cultural commentary. | Brenda Austin-Smith | 27 | 2016 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Before The WardMacaulaytown From: The Ward |
Stephen A. Otto | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add | |
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From Before YorkvilleFrom: The Ward |
John Lorinc | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add | |
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From  BeginningsFrom: Merchant Princes |
1730-1797. Looks at the marriage between Hannah Roe and John Steers (not Denis Stairs as was previously thought) their time in Grenada, examines Hannah’s two other marriages after … | James D. Frost | 24 | 2003 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Languages of DesireFrom: Len & Cub |
This chapter discusses language for talking about same-sex desire today and throughout history. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  IntroductionAir Water, and Nova Scotia From: Fastest in the World |
A brief overview of the evolution of high speed transportation throughout the 20th century and an introduction to Nova Scotia’s role in the development of two record breaking watercraft: … | John Boileau | 4 | 2004 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?(1919-1921) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 4 discusses the political and financial controversies that the Halifax relief commission became embroiled in after the end of the First World War, as reconstruction of the destroyed areas … | Barry Cahill | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
 BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | Dustin Galer | 318 | 2023 | View |
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From  Betraying a ComradeFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Between Canadians and CultureThe First Year of the CRTC From: 1968 in Canada |
This chapter considers the first year of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, the country’s broadcasting (and eventually, telecommunications) regulator. The establishment of the CRTC … | Ira Wagman | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
