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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From It’s Still Taking Us Too Long to Catch Up From: Let's Move On View Baraka Books	Okalik discusses language in terms of education, services, and legal documents. He also speaks about the importance of consulting elders, taking feedback, and his vision of Nunavut’s future …	Paul Okalik	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From It’s the Law — Finally From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	Fully examines the parliamentary process of enacting Bill C-38	Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque	29	2006	$2.90 Add
From NEW! Jacobs’ Theory of Import Replacement Section 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics From: Cities Matter View bar	Chapter 4 focuses on Jane Jacobs’ theory of import replacement, discussing local markets, variety, the example of Quebec and Québécois language and cultural preferences as an …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	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
From NEW! Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom From: Tiny Engines of Abundance View Fernwood Publishing	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
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 View Fernwood Publishing	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
From Japanese Canadians in BC, 1900-1939 From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	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
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 View Fernwood Publishing	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
From Jason & David From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future View Arsenal Pulp Press	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
From Jean Chrétien’s Conversion From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	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 Demise Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto Between The Lines	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
From Jefferson Davis in Montreal From: Montreal, City of Secrets View Baraka Books	This chapter focuses on the settlement of Jefferson Davis and his family in Montreal.	Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace	6	2017	$0.60 Add
From ‘Jewish Boys with Hoops’ From: The Ward Uncovered View Coach House Books		Vid Ingelevics	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From Jews Win a Victory Thanks to the Patriotes: The Laws of 1831–32 From: The First Jews in North America View Baraka Books	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
From Closing the Spy Holes at the Parkside Tavern From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	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
From Jobs and bodies From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	17	2021	$1.70 Add