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The Lost Massey Lectures

The Lost Massey Lectures

The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the … 418 View
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“The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe”

“The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe”

Black British Columbia and the Poetics of Space

From: Black Geographies

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The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess and Beeba Boys: Fact and Fantasy
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The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess and Beeba Boys: Fact and Fantasy

From: Shot in Vancouver

In this chapter, Wiebe explores how the 1994 Dosanjh murders in Vancouver and the juror scandal that followed inspired two very different films: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) and Beeba … 7 $0.70 Add
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Len's Camera

Len’s Camera

From: Len & Cub

This chapter talks about Len’s passion for photography and gives some context for photography in the early 1900s. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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The “Lucky” Ones
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The “Lucky” Ones

From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and … 16 $1.60 Add
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“The Lucky Things That  Happen to Me”
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“The Lucky Things That Happen to Me”

From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

This chapter traces the life of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951 to organize construction workers. It examines his wartime experiences, his founding of LIUNA … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Lure of Niagara
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The Lure of Niagara

PART THREE: RECONSTRUCTING

From: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

Chapter Ten focuses on the development of Southern Ontario and Quebec. Topics discussed include tourism, hotels, pro-Confederate networks, Confederate sympathisers in Montreal, and the movement … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Mad Dog
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The Mad Dog

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Mafia Is with Us

The Mafia Is with Us

From: Sweethearts

1970s. Setting up of a commision by the governemtn to examine the violence in the construction industry but not the industry itself 14 $1.40 Add
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The Magic of Christmas

The Magic of Christmas

From: To Wawa with Love

Shares his favourite Christmas Memory involving his Mother and a Wawa Garbage Dump and how the community came together 5 $0.50 Add
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The Maiden from Afar

The Maiden from Afar

From: On Love and Tyranny

This chapter concerns Arendt’s conflicting feelings of homesickness and alienation in regard to Germany. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Making of Ahqahizu
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The Making of Ahqahizu

Decolonial Practices: Section 2

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter explores the making of Ahqahizu largely through photos. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Making of Marcel

The Making of Marcel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

In this chapter, Pitts explores the life of Marcel LeBrun, the CEO and co-founder of iMagicTV Inc., a company that made an early attempt at delivering video-on-demand over the internet. 10 $1.00 Add
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“The Man Behind the Plow”:

“The Man Behind the Plow”:

Agrarian Populism and the Farmer Governments

From: The Rise of the New West

As the crisis of the 1880s unfolded in the West, the federal government, the CPR, and the private grain trade were taking the necessary steps to ensure the orderly and privately controlled export … 19 $1.90 Add
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'The Maniac Chinaman'

‘The Maniac Chinaman’

From: The Ward

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The Man's Man

The Man’s Man

From: Imagined Truths

The author further explores his relationship with his grandfather and family history. 16 $1.60 Add