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Speaking Up for the Gay Community, 1979

Speaking Up for the Gay Community, 1979

From: Any Other Way

Former Toronto Mayor John Sewell recalls his experience advocating for the gay community. 3 $0.30 Add
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Turning to the Law

Turning to the Law

From: Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography)

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Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 13 focuses on the institutionalisation of racism within the modern Canadian state, explores the role of centralized education, the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School and Indian Day … 53 $5.30 Add
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Twenty-First-Century City
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Twenty-First-Century City

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes how the “Encounter on Urban Environment” event was organized in Halifax in 1970, and how the event gave citizens the opportunity to hold their … 12 $1.20 Add
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Twenty Years Ago Today, and the Band Still Plays

Twenty Years Ago Today, and the Band Still Plays

From: Unicorn in the Woods

In the concluding chapter, Pitt checks in with the cast of characters that catapulted New Brunswick’s tech industry onto the world stage. 7 $0.70 Add
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Twilight of the Gods

Twilight of the Gods

(1945-1972)

From: Rebuilding Halifax

Chapter 6 discusses the gradual winding down of the Relief Commissions work after the Second World war as disputes over its roles and responsibilities with the municipal, provincial, and federal … 20 $2.00 Add
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Two Eyes and a Smile

Two Eyes and a Smile

From: The Ward Uncovered

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Two Marriages That Made a Law Firm, 1862–75

Two Marriages That Made a Law Firm, 1862–75

From: Lawyers, Families, and Businesses

Focuses on Ellen Byrne Chadwick and Charlotte Louisa Beatty, two women who each married a founding partner of the firm, then known as Beatty & Chadwick, and who are both considered crcuial to … 34 $3.40 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part One

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Two is about a writer named Vasyl (Andriovych) Kostashchuk, a writer and relative who remained in Galicia. Discussing his books Volodar dum selians’kykh (Ruler of Peasant Dreams) and Tam, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part Two

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Four focuses on the second Vasyl (Mykolaiovych) Kostashchuk, another relative unknown to them. Discussing his time as a sharpshooter in the post-Second-World-War underground army known as … 13 $1.30 Add
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Ukraine’s Galizien SS

Ukraine’s Galizien SS

From: Family Ties

This chapter discusses how Ukrainian Nationalists formed an alliance with Nazi occupiers, and the creation of the Galizien SS Division in 1943. 11 $1.10 Add
Umingmak

Umingmak

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

In 1967, Stuart Hodgson, a pugnacious British Columbia labour leader, was the newly-appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, responsible for establishing a fledgling government in the … 326 View
Uncle

Uncle

Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty

Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, … 272 View
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Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima 2.0

Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima 2.0

From: Uncle

This chapter examines the recent re-branding of commercial caricatures such as Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima. Now silent trademark characters, they no longer speak in advertisements and are reduced … 13 $1.30 Add
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Uncle Harry Flips His Wig

Uncle Harry Flips His Wig

From: To Wawa with Love

Talks about his Great Uncle Henry who was wealthy and like his mother 6 $0.60 Add