Canadian History

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"Free Trade" Limits Cultural Policymaking

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Focuses on how free trade agreements impacted Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the 1984 free trade deal, NAFTA, as well as how World Trade Organization agreements (WTO) have limited … 31 $3.10 Add
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“The Man Behind the Plow”:

Agrarian Populism and the Farmer Governments

From: The Rise of the New West

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As the crisis of the 1880s unfolded in the West, the federal government, the CPR, and the private grain trade were taking the necessary steps to ensure the orderly and privately controlled export … 19 $1.90 Add
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3. The Preliminary Hearing

From: Jeannie's Demise

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A Den of Espionage

From: Montreal and the Bomb

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This chapter explores espionage networks in Canada and this nuclear project. It touches upon the stories of key figures such as Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko, Alan Nunn May, and Bruno Pontecorvo, as … 36 $3.60 Add
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A Second Year in Java

From: Bamboo Cage

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This section of the diary describes Wyse’s second year in a Janaese prison camp. He begins to experience problems with his eyes; sometimes there is a month between entries. Wyse was … 32 $3.20 Add
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Above the Troubled Fray

PART ONE: THE ATTIC

From: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

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Chapter Four  focuses on  abolitionist activities and gatherings in the urban centres of Canada West. Topics discussed include abolitionist John Brown and Harriet Tubman, the … 18 $1.80 Add
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American Power Comes to Montreal

From: Montreal, City of Secrets

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This chapter explores the reasons for and impact of a host of important American politicians, radical abolitionists, bankers, newspaper editors, treasury agents, arms manufacturers, and Federal … ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Ancestral Connections

From: At Home

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Chapter 4 is an interview with Tanya Harnett. The chapter focuses on how a sense of home for Indigenous artists can be inextricably tied to the collective, ancient, and cross-generational history … 11 $1.10 Add
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Angels and Angles

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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In this chapter, Pitts recounts the founding of Q1 Labs in 2001, its business agreement with UNB, and the nascent company’s relationship with the dean of the faculty of computer science. It … 15 $1.50 Add
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Antler

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

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This chapter focuses on the simple gift of an antler to Marie from her sister Jennifer, exploring topics including sibling relationships, the original caribou queen, the tragic death of Sophie … 12 $1.20 Add
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Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly

From: The Case for Basic Income

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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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Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?

(1919-1921)

From: Rebuilding Halifax

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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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:

Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities

From: In a Queer Country

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In this essay, Wesley Crichlow considers the various dynamics of closeting for black gay men from two cities and from a number of ethnicities. It is an example of contemporary developments in … 21 $0.42 Add
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Burial Practices

From: The Beothuk

This chapter discuses Beothuk burial practice using archaeological evidence and the accounts of outside observers. 5 $0.50 Add
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Canada at War

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

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This chapter covers the outbreak of war and the role Italian Canadians played on the home front. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Canada at War

1939-1945

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax

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This chapter discusses the impact of the Second World War on the Chinese Canadian comunity. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. 6 $0.60 Add