Canadian History

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From: Fastest in the World

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From: Bearing Witness

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From: In Defiance

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 Introduction and background to the events that resulted in the Quebec student strike of 2011 and 2012, including a discussion of the provincial government’s attempts to raise tuition fees. ; 7 $0.70 Add
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From: Fighting For Space

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 In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on … 18 $0.18 Add
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From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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 Overview of the town of Lac-Mégantic, its relation to railroads, and the rail disaster of 2013, placed within the context of government deregulation of key industries like transportation and … 6 $0.60 Add
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From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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 Provides an overview of the history of the Canadian federation outlining the difficulty that exists in separating provincial and federal responsibility. 8 $0.80 Add
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From: In a Queer Country

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 Queer literature review; "Queer Country?" Conference (1996) 11 $0.11 Add
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From: Canada's Bastions of Empire

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 explains how the information of Canada’s defenses on the homefront are missing from the historical account of the Great War, outlines some geo-political information of importance to the … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Urgent Need for Wartime Labour

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

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 A short history about why the British and French began to recruit Chinese labourers and formed the Chinese Labour Corps, and the role Canada and Harry Livingstone played in this history. (Chapter … 27 $2.70 Add
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From: The Culture of Nature

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 The author notes that the book is inspired by two events – a trip to Disney World and the Oka protests outside Montreal – and that he has written a cultural history of nature in North … 11 $1.10 Add
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From: Women and Work

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 The author notes that the book is about how feminists have understood women’s work, then provides a short examination of feminist theories of labour: equality, critical equality, and social … 9 $0.90 Add
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From: Winnipeg 1919

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 Norman Penner provides a brief summary of the events of the strike and subsequent legal action and provides context for the documents that make up the text, as well as a disussion of the role … 16 $1.60 Add
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From: The Hope that Remains

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 The author explains the commonalities within the stories of the survivors and how these themes can teach all of us how to live a better, more hopeful life. 2 $0.20 Add
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From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

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 The introduction provides a brief summary of the history of Italian immigrants in Canada and internment during the Second world War and outlines the goals of the book. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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A Few Acres of Snow

From: The Fall of New France

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 Sets up the background information to really understand the fall of new france through looking at The New World, King William’s War 1689-1697, Queen Anne’s War 1701-1713, King … 8 $0.80 Add
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From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru

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 The introduction provides a brief summary of the material covered in the book, introduces some of the individuals whose stories are told in the book and outlines the goals of the book. 3 $0.30 Add