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From ![]() A Cambrian ExplosionFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter explores the chain reactions that were started in the Maritimes by the sale of Radian6 and Q1 Labs. | Gordon Pitts | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Changing Chinatown: On Gentrification and ResilienceFrom: White Riot |
In this chapter, Ma explores Vancouver’s Chinatown: its history, the impact of gentrification and new urban developments, and the resilience of its community members. | Melody 馬勻雅 Ma | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Chief’s ConcernsFinances, the People, and the Land From: Unsettling Canada |
A Chief’s Concerns focuses on Manuel’s perspective when he became Chief in 1995. The chapter focuses on the challenges Manuel faced as chief as well as the challenges faced by those … | Arthur Manuel | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() A civilian casualty |
Discusses one of the camp members who he had known well dying due to appendicistis | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 4 | 2012 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Clash of Agendas: The Teacher Job Action (2016-2017) |
Grant Frost | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add | |
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From ![]() A Coming Capitalism: The Nineteenth-Century Transportation RevolutionFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the transportation revolution in Canada in the nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
![]() A Communist for the RCMPThe Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant |
In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon … | Dennis Gruending | 258 | 2024 | View |
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From ![]() A Comparative Turn in Canadian StudiesFrom: Canadian Studies |
Jane Koustas; Munroe Eagles | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! A Conflict of Interest: Second Congo War1997–2003 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the Second Congo War from 1997 to 2003. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() A Conquest Foretold |
This chapter explores the aftermath of the Treaty of Utrecht, exploring military and economic developments in Canada/Quebec during the 18th century. This chapter covers the 7 Years’ War, … | Jacques Lacoursière; Robin Philpot | 25 | 2002 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() A Coup by Any Other Name… |
In Chapter 5, Philpot discusses the article and later book The Genocide Fax by staff writer for The New Yorker Philip Gourevitch, who exposed a private fax that General Roméo Dallaire sent … | Robin Philpot | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() A Crew of One |
Analyzes the safety practices of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the railway which ran through Lac-Mégantic: How the company pushed for single member crews and regularly ignored … | Bruce Campbell | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() A Dangerous PilotFrom: The Third Man |
In this chapter, Thompson discusses Mackenzie King and Churchill’s anxieties over Russian U-Boats, and the United States’ refusal to join the war. | Neville Thompson | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “A dangerous time for a government”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines late November to early December 1980, capturing the Trudeau government’s deepening political anxiety in Ottawa (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime … | Ron Graham | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() A Death and an InquestFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
This chapter highlights the death of Duncan Sticks, one of the boys who`d run away from the residential school. An inquisition lead to witness tesimonies throwing more light on the mistreatment … | Elizabeth Furniss | 31 | 1992 | $0.93 Add |



















