Canadian History
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From  Performing Indians |
Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … | Daniel Francis | 45 | 1992 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Praxis and Its ContributionFrom: When Poverty Mattered |
- | Paul Weinberg | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! ProhibitionExtreme Measures From: Bottoms Up |
Chapter 6 explores the period of prohibition in Newfoundland and Labrador that lasted from 1917-1924 including the factors that led to prohibition and it’s eventual elimination. | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Promoter and PoliticianFrom: Merchant Princes |
1887-1897 . John F Stairs story continues into his his work as a promoter of the company, his foray back to politics, and some financial innovation | James D. Frost | 41 | 2003 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Relations between Beothuk and Mi’kmaq, Labrador Montagnais (Innu) and InuitFrom: The Beothuk |
This chapter explorers the relationship between Beothuk communities and other indigenous groups, and how these relationships changed over time. | Ingeborg Marshall | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Remembering Bell and BaldwinFrom: Fastest in the World |
1957. Looks at the construction and launch of the Bras d’Or (Also known as R-103 and renamed Baddeck in 1962), an experimental prototype. | John Boileau | 10 | 2004 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Rise Up! |
Looks at the NDP from the 1980s to Layton’s death in 2011 and some of the leaders during that time. Provides an anlysis of those condidates who may have taken over the NDP leadership | Lynn Gidluck | 42 | 2012 | $4.20 Add |
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From  Sacred ConnectionsFrom: At Home |
Chapter 6 features Diane Pugen. The chapter focuses on artists whose sense of home is tied directly to the land itself. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Saving a Grand Old LadyPart III |
Part three of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Sephardim, Hasidim, and New Political Realities, 1960–1995 |
This chapter looks at language and culture and the Jewish population of Montreal; it examines the pushes for the cultural and economic integration of this population during this period. Both the … | Pierre Anctil | 57 | 2021 | $5.70 Add |
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From  Soldiers without a Commander?From: In Defiance |
Social networks, the media, and their effects on the spontaneous actions of the strikers. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Stepping Up to a Larger Union Stage, 2010-19From: Leading Progess |
In this chapter, Russell explores how PIPSC dealt with issues and opportunities as it approached its hundred-year aniversary. PIPSC members confronted the Harper government’s muzzling of … | Jason Russell | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From  Survivors StoriesMarie From: The Hope that Remains |
Marie was thirteen during the genocide and was saved along with her sister by Hutu women they knew. She explains finding her remaining family, recovering from her injuries and eventually making a … | Christine Magill | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian MulticulturalismFrom: 1968 in Canada |
From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … | Michael Temelini | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Bellingham RiotFrom: White Riot |
In this chapter, Paul Englesberg describes the anti-Asian riots that took place in Washington State in 1907. Englesberg explores how the violent riots against the Punjabi labourers in Washington … | Paul Englesberg | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
