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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

From: To Wawa with Love

Discusses a new student who was from a foreign country and how he ruined his first christmas in his new home 4 $0.40 Add
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Where the Rich Went for Vice

Where the Rich Went for Vice

From: The Ward

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White
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White

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

The chapter recounts further adjustments to highschool, an ill fated winter camping trip with Suz, the kindness and generosity of the man who saved them, and the end of the friendship between the … 8 $0.80 Add
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White Paper to Red Paper
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White Paper to Red Paper

Drawing the Battle Lines

From: Unsettling Canada

White Paper to Red Paper focuses on the White Papers created by Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien in 1969, which was an attempt to abolish the Indian Act and Indian Status in Canada. The … 8 $0.80 Add
White Riot
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White Riot

The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion … 192 View
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White Rooms, Unified Hearts and Empty Fields
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White Rooms, Unified Hearts and Empty Fields

From: In Praise of Retreat

This chapter uses the case study of Leonard Cohen as an example of an individual who used retreat and solitude to improve his life. 13 $1.30 Add
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White Supremacy and the First Feminist Waves in Canada

White Supremacy and the First Feminist Waves in Canada

From: Take Back the Fight

In the first chapter, the author narrates the history of the first feminist movement in Canada until the collapse of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She focuses on the … 18 $1.80 Add
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“Who Gets Nick’s Head”
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“Who Gets Nick’s Head”

From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

This chapter traces the concrete forming industry in Toronto during the mid-to-late 1960s, centring on Nick Di Lorenzo’s struggle to maintain dominance as rival contractors challenged his grip. 11 $1.10 Add
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“Who is Calling the Shots?”
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“Who is Calling the Shots?”

From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

This chapter traces the autumn of 1971, when Local 183 business manager Stefanini secured agreements with five of Toronto’s largest high-rise apartment builders. 12 $1.20 Add
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Who Was Uncle Nick?
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Who Was Uncle Nick?

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Seven focuses on Uncle Nick, the author’s maternal great uncle Mykola Kosovan. Discussing his time in Lethbridge, his communist leanings,  poverty and radicalization back in … 16 $1.60 Add
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Who Were the Immigrants?

Who Were the Immigrants?

SECTION TWO - The other side of the cotton

From: A Distinct Alien Race

The standard theory claims that most of the Canadien immigrants to New England were debt-strapped farmers, but this is not the only important story about Franco-American origins in Québec; … 16 $1.60 Add
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Who's Greatest Together?

Who’s Greatest Together?

From: Stampede

In this chapter, Williams unpacks the theme of the 2012 centenial Stampede, "We’re Greatest Together." 40 $4.00 Add
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Why <i>Butterfly</i> Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

Why Butterfly Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

From: Bigotry on Broadway

This chapter explores the racism, fetishism/objectification, and misogyny of Madame Butterfly. 9 $0.90 Add
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It Seemed Like a Gay Weddig To Me

It Seemed Like a Gay Weddig To Me

From: Any Other Way

Bob Gallagher recalls his efforts to immigrate to Toronto from the United States. 3 $0.30 Add
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Why Leave Home?

Why Leave Home?

From: Wanderlust

Chapter One asks the question why we travel, especially leisure travel. The chapter examines the motivations behind travel, provides a brief history of travel and travellers, and explains the … 5 $0.50 Add
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Why We Say Powell Street and Not "Japantown"
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Why We Say Powell Street and Not "Japantown"

From: White Riot

In this chapter, May and Yakashiro explain their reasoning behind the movement to retire the name "Japantown", which is commonly used to describe Vancouver’s Powell street … ; 10 $1.00 Add