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From ![]() NEW! “Who Gets Nick’s Head” |
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. | Gilberto Fernandes | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Who is Calling the Shots?” |
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. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Who was going to be what?”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the reorganization of Trudeau’s government following the 1974 federal election (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! 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 … | Myrna Kostash | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Who Weathered the StormFrom: The Third Man |
In this chapter, Thompson traces the critical months from mid-1940 to spring 1941, when Canada, the United States, and Britain reshaped their wartime alliance. | Neville Thompson | 38 | 2021 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() 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; … | David Vermette | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Who’s Greatest Together?From: Stampede |
In this chapter, Williams unpacks the theme of the 2012 centenial Stampede, "We’re Greatest Together." | Kimberley A. Williams | 40 | 2021 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() Why Butterfly Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiriFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
This chapter explores the racism, fetishism/objectification, and misogyny of Madame Butterfly. | Yuri Kageyama | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() ‘Why Do You go There?’ Struggle, Faith, and Love at the Metropolitan Community Church of TorontoFrom: Any Other Way |
David K. Seitz describes his connection to the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, a protestant church with a primarily LGBT cogregation. | David K. Seitz | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() 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 … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 5 | 2007 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Why Supporting Taiwan is in the National interest of the World’s Other DemocraciesFrom: Inspired by Taiwan |
In this chapter, Takach argues that safeguarding Taiwan’s sovereignty is essential to every democracy’s survival. | George S. Takach | 32 | 2026 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! 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 … | Angela May; Nicole Yakashiro | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Why Were Archaeologists Working in the Ward?From: The Ward Uncovered |
David & Williamson Robertson | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Steps to GentrificationFrom: Any Other Way |
Allison Bergess recounts the story of The Steps, which were constructed in 1984 and became a victim of gentrification twenty years later. | Allison Burgess | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
![]() Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery SystemsThe Medicolegal Aspects of Our Most Addictive and Dangerous Legal Drug |
Wigmore on Nicotine is the third book in the author’s trilogy of the forensic toxicology and medicolegal aspects of alcohol, cannabis, and now nicotine. Maintaining the same high standards … | James G. Wigmore | 882 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Wild |
The chapter explores the impact of Margie’s mother returning to work, the Old Town and New Town, no go zones, the allure of Rainbow Valley and the reserve, their mothers reaction to Paul … | Margaret Macpherson | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |

















