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Black Loyalists in New Brunswick
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Black Loyalists in New Brunswick

The lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834

Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their … 146 View
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Black Power

Black Power

From: Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography)

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Blacks and the Canadian Labour Market

Blacks and the Canadian Labour Market

From: Black Canadians

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Blacks in Canadian Sport

Blacks in Canadian Sport

Issues, Controversies, and Paradigm Shifts

From: Black Canadians

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Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation

Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation

“When I was twenty-five, thirty, there was more salmon and I was fishing every other day. Now I’m lucky to go once a week.”

From: How We Go Home

Blaine Wilson, of Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island, is a hunter and fisherperson, one of the few remaining who know how to live off the land. He describes his childhood and family at … 12 $1.20 Add
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Blazing the Trail

Blazing the Trail

From: Gay Marriage

Provides a time-line of the fight for Marriage eqality in Canada from the 1970s through to the passing of Bill C-23 in 2000 which recognized same-sex common-law unions ; ; ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Bobby and Pierre
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Bobby and Pierre

From: 1968 in Canada

In the spring of 1968, the political campaigns of Robert Kennedy in the United States and Pierre Trudeau in Canada generated wild crowd scenes featuring passionate adoration of the candidates. … 23 $2.30 Add
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Bomb Scare

Bomb Scare

From: The Ward Uncovered

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Bombs and Barbed Wire
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Bombs and Barbed Wire

Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945

Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war … 204 View
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Bombs, Damage and Compensation

Bombs, Damage and Compensation

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the American companies who amassed profits during World War II with emphsis on the increase in profits for firms with German holdings (1942-1948). 10 $1.00 Add
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Books, 1943–52 68

Books, 1943–52 68

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at the books he read as a boy 1943-52 ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Boomtown Toronto

Boomtown Toronto

From: Sweethearts

1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development 9 $0.90 Add
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<i>Border Cultures</i>: A Retrospective
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Border Cultures: A Retrospective

Part 1. A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In the years 2013, 2014, and 2015, the Art Gallery of Windsor featured consecutive exhibitions of Border Cultures, a landmark series of forty-five artist projects and essays on the “real, … 22 $2.20 Add
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Borderlands
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Borderlands

From: Wanda’s War

Chapter 1 explores the turbulent history of Poland leading up to the Second World War, in particular, the borderland region of the Kresy that straddles the modern day borders of Poland, Belarus … 15 $1.50 Add
Bottoms Up
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Bottoms Up

A History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador

In 1617, Lord Falkland’s colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of … 272 View
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Bound For Canada

Bound For Canada

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

This chapter discusses the factors that led millions of Italians to emigrate in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. ; 16 $1.60 Add