Canadian History
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 NEW! Canadarm and CollaborationHow Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds |
Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program … | Elizabeth Howell | 249 | 2020 | View |
 Canada’s Bastions of EmpireHalifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918 |
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. … | 280 | View | ||
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From  Canada’s ColonyStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Three of this title, entitled "Emperor of the North" discuss Hodgson’s growing power and influence in the communities of the Northwest Territories. Topics … | Jake Ootes | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Canada’s Galizien SSFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses Canada’s historical connections to Ukraine, and the Canadian Ukrainian National Federation’s connections with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. | Peter McFarlane | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Canada’s "international responsibility"From: Targeting Libya |
The chapter traces how Canadian capital and engineering firms like SNC and Lavalin became tools of Ottawa’s anti-communist foreign policy during the Cold War, while Western powers tightened … | Owen Schalk | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Canada’s Leading Metropolis (1896-1914)From: The History of Montréal |
This chapter explores the city’s population growth, social and ethnic divisions, and the nature of city life/the social landscape. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the start of … | Paul-André Linteau | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
 NEW! Canada’s Main StreetThe Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway |
Much has been written about the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first major transportation network that bound Canada coast to coast, but almost nothing about The Trans-Canada Highway, even though … | Craig Baird | 223 | 2025 | View |
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From  Canada’s national political institutions wear blindersFrom: Moment of Truth |
In this chapter, Savoie examines how Canada’s political institutions, inherited from Britain in 1867, have remained spatially blind to the nation’s vast regional divisions. | Donald J. Savoie | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Canada’s New Carscape:Town and Country Remade From: Car Nation |
1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Canada’s New Carscape: Town and Country RemadeFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the impact of autos and Canadian transport networks, building new highways and road systems. He examines how urban development patterns modified to … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
 Canada’s State Police150 years of the RCMP |
Stripping away the myth of the RCMP, historian Greg Marquis offers an account of 150 years of a state police force acting on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. From its start policing Indigenous … | Greg Marquis | 304 | 2024 | View |
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From  Canada’s War on TerrorFrom: Canada in the World |
Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War – “They Don’t Deserve Our Help” – “What the Afghans Need Is Colonizing” – Canada in the War on Terror … | Tyler A. Shipley | 54 | 2020 | $5.40 Add |
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From  Canadian Cities and Sovereignty AssociationFrom: The Lost Massey Lectures |
In this 1980 lecture, Jacobs examines Norway’s peaceful separation from Sweden in 1905 as a precedent for the Quebec sovereignty debate. She traces how Montreal reshaped Quebec into a … | Jane Jacobs | 75 | 2007 | $7.50 Add |
 Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life |
Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … | 256 | View | ||
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From  Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate |
The take-away message from half a century of CD articles on both medicare and health is that, at the end of the day, the story of health is largely the story of status, equality and social … | Arthur Schafer | 27 | 2016 | $2.70 Add |
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From Canadian Dimension and the “Other” OntarioRadical Reportage through Four Transformative Decades |
This chapter identifies the key episodes in CD’s coverage of Ontario from 1970 to 2012. | Bryan Evans | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
