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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Jeannie’s Demise Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto Between The Lines	August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that …	Ian Radforth	198	2020	View
NEW! John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool James Lorimer and Company	John Lennon was the world’s biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of …	Greg Marquis	250	2020	View
NEW! Killing the Wittigo Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Actions, and Doing the Work of Healing ECW Press	Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how …	Suzanne Methot	271	2023	View
Lawyers, Families, and Businesses The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963 Irwin Law Inc.	In Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863–1963, noted lawyer and historian, Ian Kyer, provides a superbly researched and fascinating study of …	C. Ian Kyer	337	2013	View
NEW! Leading Progess The Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada, 1920–2020 Between The Lines	On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada …	Jason Russell	272	2020	View
Legacy Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing ECW Press	Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other …	Suzanne Methot	370	2019	View
NEW! Len & Cub A Queer History Goose Lane Editions	Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly …	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	192	2022	View
Let’s Move On Paul Okalik Speaks Out Baraka Books	Pangnirtung, where Paul Okalik was born, has survived starvation, epidemics, relocation, foreign language schooling, and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. That is what prompted Paul …	Louis McComber; Paul Okalik	200	2018	View
Lost Feast Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food ECW Press	When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. …	Lenore Newman	308	2019	View
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick A defining conflict for Canada's political culture Formac Publishing	The American refugees who fled north to Canada after Britain’s defeat by the revolutionary U.S. army were determined to build a culture separate from the U.S. By their numbers and their …	David Bell	184	2013	View
NEW! Material Traces of War Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945 University of Ottawa Press	Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945, looks at how Canadian women experienced the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book puts …	Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker	338	2021	View
Merchant Princes Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel James Lorimer and Company	This book tells the story of an extraordinary family of merchants and entrepreneurs. It begins in 1810, when William Stairs opened a small general store on the Halifax waterfront. Over the next …	James D. Frost	376	2003	View
NEW! Mining Country A History of Canada's Mines and Miners James Lorimer and Company	Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. …	Arn Keeling; John Sandlos	226	2021	View
Montreal and the Bomb bar	WINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS This one is a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one …	Gilles Sabourin	208	2021	View
Montreal, City of Secrets Confederate Operations in Montreal During the American Civil War Baraka Books	“Barry Sheehy lays out the case for the involvement of the Confederates in a concise and convincing manner showing once and for all that Booth could not have carried out his plot without …	Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace	300	2017	View
Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good The Spread of Historical Amnesia bar	Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No …	Francesco Filippi	216	2021	View