Canadian History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Black Loyalists in New Brunswick The lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834	Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their …		146		View
From Black Power From: Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography) View Fernwood Publishing		Burnely “Rocky” Jones; James W.St.G. Walker	35	2016	$3.50 Add
From Blackness Yes!: Blockorama; Making Black Queer Diasporic Space in Toronto Pride From: Any Other Way Coach House Books	Lord and Zuberi reflect on the Black queer diasporic space, Blockorama.	Jamea Zuberi; R. Cassandra Lord	3	2017	$0.30 Add
From Blacks and the Canadian Labour Market From: Black Canadians View Fernwood Publishing		Joseph Mensah	46	2010	$5.52 Add
From Blacks in Canadian Sport Issues, Controversies, and Paradigm Shifts From: Black Canadians View Fernwood Publishing		Joseph Mensah	26	2010	$3.12 Add
From Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation “When I was twenty-five, thirty, there was more salmon and I was fishing every other day. Now I’m lucky to go once a week.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Blaine Wilson, of Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island, is a hunter and fisherperson, one of the few remaining who know how to live off the land. He describes his childhood and family at …	Sara Sinclair	12	2020	$1.20 Add
From Blazing the Trail From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	Provides a time-line of the fight for Marriage eqality in Canada from the 1970s through to the passing of Bill C-23 in 2000 which recognized same-sex common-law unions	Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque	27	2006	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Blue Wilderness From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene traces the 1992 to 1994 campaign to establish a national park at Little Limestone Lake and Long Point in Manitoba’s northern Interlake.	Roger Turene	11	2025	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Bobby and Pierre From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	In the spring of 1968, the political campaigns of Robert Kennedy in the United States and Pierre Trudeau in Canada generated wild crowd scenes featuring passionate adoration of the candidates. …	Paul Litt	23	2021	$2.30 Add
NEW! Bombs and Barbed Wire Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Goose Lane Editions	Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war …	Ronald Cormier	204	2022	View
From NEW! Boomtown From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Toronto’s explosive postwar transformation from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when a million new residents reshaped the city. The narrative traces the housing …	Gilberto Fernandes	12	2026	$1.20 Add
NEW! Bottoms Up A History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador Breakwater Books	In 1617, Lord Falkland’s colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of …	Sheilah Roberts Lukins	272	2020	View
From Bound For Canada From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the factors that led millions of Italians to emigrate in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts.	Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From The New Bras d’Or From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	1966-1968. Outlines the challenges that were faced during the construction of the new Bras d’Or (Also known as FHE-400).	John Boileau	12	2004	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Bread and Butter From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter traces Gerry Gallagher’s union organizing across Ontario in the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly his recruitment of Hydro labourers for LIUNA Local 183, and discusses the …	Gilberto Fernandes	11	2026	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Breaking Bones From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discuses the health toll of underground tunnelling, Italian immigrant labour organizing through Local 183, and organized crime’s encroachment on Toronto.	Gilberto Fernandes	15	2026	$1.50 Add