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From  Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter explores the increase in convictions under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in the 1950s and discusses the Oakalla Prison Farm and the Mimico Reformatory in Ontario, where some … | Susan C. Boyd | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom |
Chapter 3 examines Jamaica in the decades following slave emancipation in the 1830s, when Jamaica was often put forward as exemplifying the calamitous results of a prosperous peasantry. Topics … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation“You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.” From: How We Go Home |
James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He … | Sara Sinclair | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Japanese Canadians in BC, 1900-1939From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War |
This chapter discusses the experience of Japanese Canadians in the early 20th century including the discrimination they faced upon their arrival. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, … | Musako Fukawa; Pamela Hickman | 40 | 2012 | $4.00 Add |
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From Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux“My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.” From: How We Go Home |
Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Jason & David |
In this chapter, the author discusses his attempts to create a performance piece that juxtaposed images from his childhood with stories and images from the lives of gay artists who had died of … | Dan Fishback | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Jean Chrétien’s ConversionFrom: Gay Marriage |
examines the change in opinion of Prime Minister Jean Chretien | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 12 | 2006 | $1.20 Add |
 Jeannie’s DemiseAbortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto |
August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that … | Ian Radforth | 198 | 2020 | View |
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From  Jefferson Davis in Montreal |
This chapter focuses on the settlement of Jefferson Davis and his family in Montreal. | Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From  ‘Jewish Boys with Hoops’From: The Ward Uncovered |
Vid Ingelevics | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add | |
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From  Jews Win a Victory Thanks to the Patriotes: The Laws of 1831–32 |
Tha author discusses his archival research into the Hart family and uncovering fascinating Jewish historical documents as well as expands upon records of early Jewish settlement and history in … | Denis Vaugeois | 27 | 2012 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Closing the Spy Holes at the Parkside TavernFrom: Any Other Way |
Gerald Hannon describes how Toronto’s Morality Beaureau used peepholes at the Parkside Tavern to arrest dozens of gay men, and how the author and several other activists met with the … | Gerald Hannon | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Jobs and bodiesFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add | |
 NEW! John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool |
John Lennon was the world’s biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of … | 250 | View | ||
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From  NEW! John PattersonEyewitness to History |
This chapter tells the story of John Patterson, a black loyalist who inadvertently became the subject of a bestselling book when he became involved in the capture of a fugitive. | Stephen Davidson | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Joining Up: Recruitment and EnlistmentFrom: War Among the Clouds |
This chapter outlines the steps involved in becoming an airman in the British air services, sharing the motivations New Brunswick men had for joining and what recruitment and enlistment looked … | Brent J. Wilson | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
