Social Movements
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From  NEW! Chapter 17: On the Eve of the Great DepressionWarning Signs in the 1920s |
This chapter details how the speculation and expansion of the 1920s gave way to overproduction, and reliance on exports, as increasing debt made the economy acutely vulnerable to the 1929 crash … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Crothers Woods and Beechwood Wetland |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the section of the Don River watershed where visitors will discover Crothers Woods, Beechwood Wetland, Cottonwood Flats, and Sun Valley. He discusses how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 18: Economic CollapseThe Great Depression of the 1930s |
This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve, "one of the most wonderful fifteen minute hikes Toronto has to offer." Following intense human use over … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s |
This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: The New Capitalist-Colonial Order, 1890-1929 |
This chapter reviews the rise of corporate power in Canada and rapid change in the workplace marked by labour conflict and social protest, notably in the 1918 Winnipeg General Strike. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed1937, a Year of Rebellion |
This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From Nordheimer Ravine and Glen Edyth/Roycroft Wetlands |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Nordheimer Ravine, home to Glen Edyth & Roycroft wetlands and a thriving tradition of citizen stewardship. He uses Nordheimer to … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Cedarvale Ravine |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Cedarvale Ravine, located in Toronto’s Don River watershed. Through Cedarvale, he illustrates how urban development has threatened and transformed … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s MomentumThe Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 |
This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula. | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Class War Waged from Above, 1975–2000 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines the decline of Canadian labour movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Provincial government officials fought civil servants over wages and weakened unions’ … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
 Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890A New History for the Twenty-First Century |
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history … | Bryan D. Palmer | 450 | 2024 | View |
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From  Debating and Re-Debating What Is FeminismFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Debating and Re-Debating What is Feminism, chapter five, articulates the importance of holding debates, and the need for a location for hosting debates. She asserts that debate skills are … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From Disseminating Feminist Knowledge in the Digital EraFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Disseminating Feminist Knowledge in the Digital Era, chapter six, argues for the importance of and need for locations for sharing feminist knowledge and debate, and for developing activist … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
