Canadian History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
The Hope that Remains Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide Véhicule Press	Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in …	Christine Magill	192	2019	View
The Imaginary Indian The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Invisibles A History of the Royal Newfoundland Companies Breakwater Books	During the tumultuous and often violent election riots of 1861, members of the Royal Newfoundland Companies opened fire on a crowd of rioters, killing three and wounding several others. In the …	James E. Candow	256	2019	View
NEW! The Ku Klux Klan in Canada A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom Formac Publishing	The Klu Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, …	Allan Bartley	322	2020	View
NEW! The Mantle of Struggle A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas Between The Lines	Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, …	Irving Andre	360	2023	View
The Rise of the New West The History of a Region in Confederation James Lorimer and Company	This one-volume history chronicles a 150-year history of dramatic changes in fortune and attitudes in western Canada. From the Riel Rebellions and the Winnipeg General Strike to the founding of …	John F. Conway	400	2014	View
The Ward The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood Coach House Books	-	Michael ed. McClelland	321	2015	View
Through the Mill Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951 Baraka Books	Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women …	Gail Cuthbert Brandt	324	2018	View
NEW! Tracking the Caribou Queen Memoir of a Settler Girlhood NeWest Press	In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined …	Margaret Macpherson	296	2022	View
Umingmak Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic twp	In 1967, Stuart Hodgson, a pugnacious British Columbia labour leader, was the newly-appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, responsible for establishing a fledgling government in the …	Jake Ootes	326	2020	View
Unicorn in the Woods Goose Lane Editions	As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech …	Gordon Pitts	264	2020	View
NEW! Vancouver Vice Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End Arsenal Pulp Press	The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the …	Aaron Chapman	256	2021	View
Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands The Idealistic Canadians Who Built the NDP James Lorimer and Company	As an idealist and a visionary, Jack Layton connected with millions of Canadians who saw that he was a different kind of political leader. So did Tommy Douglas, chosen as the greatest Canadian …	Lynn Gidluck	248	2012	View
NEW! We Were Not The Savages Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations Fernwood Publishing	The title of this book We Were Not the Savages speaks to the truth of what happened when Europeans invaded Mi’kmaw lands in the 17th century. Prior to the European invasion the Mi’kmaq lived …	Daniel N. Paul; Pamela Palmater	416	2022	View
When Poverty Mattered Then and Now Fernwood Publishing	Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, …	Paul Weinberg	211	2019	View