Canadian History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Seven Days in Halifax When citizens confronted the racists, liars and incompetents who ran their city Formac Publishing	Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where Africville was …	Robert Ashe	338	2025	View
From Sewing the Threads of Resilience From: From Suffragette to Homesteader View Fernwood Publishing	Twentieth-Century Indian Homemakers’ Clubs in Western Canada	Sarah A. Nickel	18		$1.80 Add
From Alexander Wood: The Invention of a Legend From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	Ed Jackson explores the truth behind the legend of Alexander Wood, a merchant and prominent Torontonian who was embroiled in a sex scandal in the early 1800’s.	Ed Jackson	2	2017	$0.20 Add
From Sex Work and The Ward’s Bachelor Society From: The Ward View Coach House Books		Elise Chenier	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From Shanawdithit From: The Beothuk Collection: Atlantic Canadian History: The Social, Economic and Political History of the Maritimes and Newfoundland Breakwater Books	This chapter describes the life of the last known Beothuk individual, a woman named Shanawdithit.	Ingeborg Marshall	6	2009	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Shingwaukonse From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Koabel examines the 1849 struggle of Ojibwe leader Shingwaukonse to secure mining royalties for his people on the shores of Lake Superior.	Greg Koabel	18	2025	$1.80 Add
From Signing up to Serve From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. …	Dianne Kelly	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Sir John A. MacDonald From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart traces the life of Sir John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), Canada’s first prime minister, from Confederation between 1864 and 1867 through his vision of a …	J.D.M. Stewart	24	2025	$2.40 Add
Sir John A. MacDonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885 Sutherland House	Sir John A. Macdonald had been in politics for four decades and prime minister of Canada for three terms, but he’d never seen anything like the apocalyptic year of 1885. The issues cascaded …	Patrice Dutil	339	2024	View
From NEW! Sir John J.C. Abbott, Sir John S. D. Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and Sir Charles Tupper From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart examines the four Conservative prime ministers that governed Canada between 1891 and 1896: Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper.	J.D.M. Stewart	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Sir Robert Borden From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart examines Sir Robert Borden’s tenure as Canada’s eighth prime minister from 1911 to 1920, a period dominated by the First World War.	J.D.M. Stewart	16	2025	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Sir Wilfrid Laurier From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart examines the tenure of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841–1919), who served as Canada’s seventh prime minister from 1896 to 1911, leading the Liberal Party through a …	J.D.M. Stewart	24	2025	$2.40 Add
From Siting Lesbians: Urban Spaces and Sexuality From: In a Queer Country View Arsenal Pulp Press	In "Siting Lesbians: Urban Spaces and Sexuality," Catherine Nash discusses the complement to Ingram’s study. He considers gay males seeking pleasure in the wide outdoors while …	Catherine Nash	27	2001	$0.54 Add
From Oscar Wilde’s Type (in Toronto) From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	An excerpt from Of Toronto the Good: a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as It Is , 1898.	C.S Clark	1	2017	$0.10 Add
From NEW! Skedaddling, Crimping, and Deserting PART TWO: A HOUSE TORN ASUNDER From: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge View ECW Press	Chapter Seven focuses on public and financial support for the war effort during the early weeks of the Civil War. Topics discussed include the need for more men, “bounties” and public …	Brian Martin	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Skeletons in the Closet From: Family Ties View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses Canada’s modern understanding of its relationship to Axis powers, and the need for transparent political accountability rather than a sanitized public memory.	Peter McFarlane	4	2024	$0.40 Add