Canadian History

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Internment and Forced Labour

Internment and Forced Labour

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

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 This chapter related the experiences of Japanese Canadians who were imprisoned and forced to work as a result of their being labeled ‘enemy aliens’. It illustrates this with drawings, … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Internment and Human Rights

Internment and Human Rights

From: A Communist for the RCMP

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Intertwined Tales

Intertwined Tales

From: At Home

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 Chapter 5 features interviews with Sandra Semchuk, Tim Schouten, and Marian Penner Bancroft. This chapter focuses on non-Indigenous artists whose sense of home are also inextricably bound up with … 16 $1.60 Add
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Into a New Century, 2000-09
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Into a New Century, 2000-09

From: Leading Progess

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 This chapter describes how the PIPSC dealt with issues in the first decade of the 2000s, including Y2K and the globalization of computer systems, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Canadian war … 29 $2.90 Add
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Into Battle

Into Battle

From: Bamboo Cage

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 In the introduction, Vance provides background on the journal’s author, Robert Wise, a flight controller in the Royal Air Force. 8 $0.80 Add
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Into the Courtroom

Into the Courtroom

From: Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography)

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

From: Fastest in the World

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Introduction

Introduction

From: Bearing Witness

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Introduction

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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Introduction

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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Introduction

Introduction

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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Introduction

Introduction

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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Introduction

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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Introduction

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