Canadian History

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The Collective House on Dewson Street

The Collective House on Dewson Street

From: Any Other Way

Debbie Douglas tells how a house on Dawson Street became the epicentre for groups of queer black women for decades. 2 $0.20 Add
From Suffragette to Homesteader

From Suffragette to Homesteader

Exploring British and Canadian Colonial Histories and Women's Politics Through Memoir

From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, … 203 View
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From the Ashes of Nortel

From the Ashes of Nortel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

This chapter recounts the bankrupcy of Nortel, and describes how one former Nortel employee took up a leadership role at UNB’s Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. 13 $1.30 Add
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From the Oil Shock to the National Energy Policy:  Petro Panic in the 1970s and 1980s
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From the Oil Shock to the National Energy Policy: Petro Panic in the 1970s and 1980s

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

This chapter examines postwar Canadian energy policy, including the controverial National Energy Policy of the Pierre Trudeau government and the Alberta resistance. Palmer outlines how … 13 $1.30 Add
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From the Potlatch to Residential Schools

From the Potlatch to Residential Schools

From: Canada in the World

The War of 1885 – Métis Resistance – Assimilation, Extermination, Cultural Genocide – The Residential School System – Policing the Colonized – Colonialism and … 36 $3.60 Add
From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge
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From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

Canada and the Civil War

Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its … 353 View
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Future Leaders of the North

Future Leaders of the North

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Four of this title, entitled "Turf Wars" discuss the challenges and conflicts faced by communities in the Northwest Territories during Stuart Hodgson’s career. … 5 $0.50 Add
Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage

The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution

A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada. Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage. As a political correspondent for The … 312 View
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Gay Marriage Gathers Strength

Gay Marriage Gathers Strength

From: Gay Marriage

Breaks down the strengthening position of Gay Marriage through a closer look at some cases from Quebec and British Columbia in the late 90s and early 2000s ; ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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International Ms Leather 2000 Comes to Toronto

International Ms Leather 2000 Comes to Toronto

From: Any Other Way

Hilary Cook and Karleen Pendleton Jiménez recall the agony and ecstacy of attenting an S&M party. ; ; 4 $0.40 Add
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A Literary Breakthrough: Glad Day's Origins

A Literary Breakthrough: Glad Day’s Origins

From: Any Other Way

Jerald Moldenhauer recalls his involvement in the gay rights movement in Toronto in the 1970’s 4 $0.40 Add
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Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw First Nation

Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw First Nation

“The nurse was trying to get me to sign a paper to put our baby, Derrick, up for adoption.”

From: How We Go Home

Geraldine Manson, of Snuneymuxw First Nation, shares her story about being an Elder in Residence at the Nanaimo campus of Vancouver Island University. She was in a residential school as a child … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Bastion of Straight Male Privilege: OCA in the 1970's

A Bastion of Straight Male Privilege: OCA in the 1970’s

From: Any Other Way

Richard Fung describes the experience of being a gay student at the Ontario College of Arts in the 1970s. 3 $0.30 Add
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Getting Out the Vote
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Getting Out the Vote

(1928)

From: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

This chapter discusses Klan involvement in the electoral politics of Saskatchewan in the late 1920s 18 $1.80 Add
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Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?

Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?

From: Equal as Citizens

1990s. A tumulteous decade for Canada the main cause of turbulance being constitutional, the Reform Party, the McMahon thesis and rebuttles against it. Provincial studies of Ontario and Alberta … 15 $1.50 Add