Canadian History
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From  NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 23Follow-Up to the Election From: Anatomy of an Election |
Follow-Up to the Election and immediate subsequent events. | Gregory Tardi | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24Reports by the Chief Electoral Officer and the Commissioner of Canada Elections From: Anatomy of an Election |
Transcript of Reports by the Chief Electoral Officer and the Commissioner of Canada Elections | Gregory Tardi | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Nordheimer Ravine and Glen Edyth/Roycroft Wetlands |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Nordheimer Ravine, home to Glen Edyth & Roycroft wetlands and a thriving tradition of citizen stewardship. He uses Nordheimer to … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 25Formation of the Next Government of Canada From: Anatomy of an Election |
An overview of the formation of a new government in the aftermath of an election. | Gregory Tardi | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From Cedarvale Ravine |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Cedarvale Ravine, located in Toronto’s Don River watershed. Through Cedarvale, he illustrates how urban development has threatened and transformed … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 26The 43rd Parliament: Establishment, Opening, and Legislative Program From: Anatomy of an Election |
An overview of the early days of the 43rd parliament. | Gregory Tardi | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s MomentumThe Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 |
This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula. | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s"The Great Darkness" |
This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse"The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 |
This chapter details how at the end of WWII, Canada celebrated Indigenous war heroes like Tommy Prince and passed limited reforms through the 1951 Indian Act, yet at the same time denied the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential SchoolsColonial Coercions, 1940-70 |
This chapter recounts how in the postwar years, particularly after 1960, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment climbed rapidly as policing, courts and prisons replaced schools and reserves as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Chapter 3Becoming Human From: Legacy |
In this chapter, the author recalls her youth and relationship with her parents and how that shaped her identity as an indigenous person. The chapter concludes with a list of developmental trauma … | Suzanne Methot | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 3Space cards |
This chapter discusses the impact of the Challenger Disaster on Canadian astronauts. The author goes on to discuss the role played by Canadians in the construction of the International Space … | Elizabeth Howell | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
