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From  Terrors and triumphsFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add | |
 NEW! TestimonioCanadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala |
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 268 | 2021 | View |
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From  Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Textiles Go SouthSECTION FOUR- Tenacity and modernity From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter explores the decline of the textile industry. By the mid-20th century the textile mills that attracted workers from Québec to the New England, and that once led the … | David Vermette | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From Textiles in Brunswick – The First Half-CenturySECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter looks at cotton manufacturing in what is now the State of Maine. It touches on the stories of various influential businessmen, the history of the Cabot Manufacturing Company, and the … | David Vermette | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Texts Attributed to Einstein |
This appendix examines two letters published under Albert Einstein’s name between 1929 and 1947 that archival evidence suggests he did not write. Both address the Jewish reconstruction of … | Fred Jerome | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From  That Fine Summer and Final ReflectionsFrom: No Place For A Woman |
The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. | Antony Berger | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! That Men May FightWomen and Military Service during the World Wars From: Material Traces of War |
This chapter describes what some Canadian women did in the military along with how they pushed and lobbied for expanded roles. From military nurses in both wars, to paramilitary auxiliary corps, … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 71 | 2021 | $7.10 Add |
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From  “.. .That Sweep of Savage Splendour… “A Century of Australians in Antarctica |
Initially lured south perhaps as much by virtue of opportunistic geography as their undoubted ability, a number of remarkable individuals from that era would in time forge an enduring link … | Alasdair McGregor | 14 | 2004 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! That’s the Navy for YouFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Four focuses on the author’s mother Joan O’Connell’s time working during the Second World War, working in the boeing aircraft plant, disposable income, dancing, her special … | Kathryn Willcock | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … | David Berry | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From The 1948 Killing of Un Mediator on Palestine Count Bernadotte |
In this appendix, Jerome examines the 1948 assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations’ first mediator in Palestine. | Fred Jerome | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The 1956-1957 Refugee Movement in the Context of Hungarian Immigration to Canada since the Late 19th Century |
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the 1956 refugee experience, place it in the context of a century and a half of Hungarian immigration to Canada, and establish to what extent and in … | Nándor Dreisziger | 29 | 2010 | $3.77 Add |
The 1956 Hungarian RevolutionHungarian and Canadian Perspectives |
In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was … | Christopher Adam; Judy Young; Leslie Laczko; Tibor Egervari | 306 | 2010 | View |
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From  NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian MulticulturalismFrom: 1968 in Canada |
From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … | Michael Temelini | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  The 1980s, Bill Cosby, and Smokescreen TomsFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the role of Black conservatives in the web of free-market capitalism, focusing especially on the ideology of The Cosby Show. | Cheryl Thompson | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
