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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Bombs, Damage and Compensation From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	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).	Jacques R. Pauwels	10	2017	$1.00 Add
From Books, 1943–52 68 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Looks at the books he read as a boy 1943-52	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Boomtown From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Toronto’s explosive postwar transformation from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when a million new residents reshaped the city. The narrative traces the housing …	Gilberto Fernandes	12	2026	$1.20 Add
From Boomtown Toronto From: Sweethearts View James Lorimer and Company	1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development	Catherine Wismer	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Border Cultures: A Retrospective Part 1. A Context for Border Cultures and Conversations with the Curator From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization View University of Ottawa Press	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, …	Victor Konrad	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Borderlands From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	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 …	Marsha Faubert	15	2023	$1.50 Add
NEW! Bottoms Up A History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador Breakwater Books	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 …	Sheilah Roberts Lukins	272	2020	View
From Bound For Canada From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	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.	Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From Bourgeoisie, Aristocracy, Church, and Socialists Confront War and Revolution From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	Of an apparently unavoidable Great War, the industrial bourgeoisie expects considerable economic advantages. But the other pillars of the elite, the nobility and the church, also entertain high …	Jacques R. Pauwels	14	2016	$1.40 Add
From Boys’ Parliament, 1950–52 60 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Looks at his involvement with the Maritime Provinces Tuxis and Older Boys’ Parliament 1950-52	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	4	2014	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Braids Land and Language: Section 1 From: Qummut Qukiria! View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter is written in both English and Inuktitut. The chapter discusses moving from the North to Montreal, family, a mother’s sacrifice, and hair.	Taqralik Partridge	5	2022	$0.50 Add
From The New Bras d’Or From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	1966-1968. Outlines the challenges that were faced during the construction of the new Bras d’Or (Also known as FHE-400).	John Boileau	12	2004	$1.20 Add
From Brazil, 1964 From: Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy View bar	In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1964 military coup in Brazil, focusing on the overthrow of President João Goulart and the roles of the United States and Canada.	Owen Schalk; Yves Engler	6	2024	$0.60 Add
From Brazil, 2016 From: Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy View bar	In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 2016 impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, the Lava Jato corruption investigation, and Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election.	Owen Schalk; Yves Engler	5	2024	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Bread and Butter From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter traces Gerry Gallagher’s union organizing across Ontario in the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly his recruitment of Hydro labourers for LIUNA Local 183, and discusses the …	Gilberto Fernandes	11	2026	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Breaking Bones From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discuses the health toll of underground tunnelling, Italian immigrant labour organizing through Local 183, and organized crime’s encroachment on Toronto.	Gilberto Fernandes	15	2026	$1.50 Add