Canadian History

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'Avoir le cul entre deux chaises'

‘Avoir le cul entre deux chaises’

From: Any Other Way

Yvvette Perrault recalls her experiences working with the AIDS Committee of Toronto. 3 $0.30 Add
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Baby of the House

Baby of the House

From: Pierre Poilievre

In this chapter, Lawton examines Pierre Poilievre’s 2004 entry into the House of Commons as the twenty-five-year-old "Baby of the House," the youngest member of Parliament. 10 $1.00 Add
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Back to the Senses

Back to the Senses

From: At Home

Chapter 13 features interviews with Annie Martin, Emiliano Sepulveda, and Michael Fernandes. This chapter focuses on artists who use their senses to make connections and find belonging anywhere, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Balancing the Claims of Nation and of Class

Balancing the Claims of Nation and of Class

Fifty Years of Covering Quebec

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

Fifty years after its founding, CD continues a proud tradition of nonethnocentric coverage of Quebec politics, but some strategic limitations persist: CD seems to have catalogued parallel social … 17 $1.70 Add
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Ball Culture

Ball Culture

From: Any Other Way

Stories and photos from Toronto’s ballroom subculture, which traces its roots to Harlem in the 1980’s. ; 3 $0.30 Add
Bamboo Cage

Bamboo Cage

The 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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Bars and Bathhouses
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Bars and Bathhouses

From: 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. 12 $1.20 Add
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Basic Income Comes to Ontario - But Briefly
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Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly

From: The Case for Basic Income

This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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BC as an Intergovernmental Relations Player: Still Punching Below Its Weight?

BC as an Intergovernmental Relations Player: Still Punching Below Its Weight?

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

Historical review of intergovernmental relations leading to an assessment of the current government’s performance on the matter. 20 $2.00 Add
Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness

Journalists, 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 … 221 View
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Beatty Blackstock, 1890–1906

Beatty Blackstock, 1890–1906

From: Lawyers, Families, and Businesses

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 … 266 $26.60 Add
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Becoming Ordinary

Becoming Ordinary

50 Years of Arts and Culture

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

It is in this departure from an assessment approach to culture that CD made its most interesting and useful contributions to cultural commentary. 27 $2.70 Add
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Before Africville: Nova Scotia's Black Settlers
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Before Africville: Nova Scotia’s Black Settlers

From: The Spirit of Africville

In this chapter, Bridglal Pachai explores the history of Early African settlement in colonial Nova Scotia. He describes how authorities marginalized Black refugees and settlers through … 16 $1.60 Add
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Before the Visitors
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Before the Visitors

From: Toronto: The First 13,000 Years

In this chapter, Williamson and King trace thirteen thousand years of Indigenous history in the Toronto area, from nomadic hunters around 11,000 B.C. to the Toronto Purchase Treaty of 1780. 38 $3.80 Add
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Before The Ward

Before The Ward

Macaulaytown

From: The Ward

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Before Yorkville

Before Yorkville

From: The Ward

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