History
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From  After the Komagata Maru1945-1990 |
This chapter describes the aftermath of the Komagata Maru incident and the changing attitudes and the fight for recognition and rights for Indian Canadians in the latter half of the twentieth … | Pamela Hickman | 26 | 2014 | $2.60 Add |
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From  AfterwordsPrivate Stories From: The Truth About Stories |
In this reading, Indigenous author and scholar Thomas King explores the idea that stories, both those we tell ourselves and those that are told to us by others, are foundational in establishing … | Thomas King | 16 | 2003 | $1.92 Add |
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From  Against All OddsThe Chinese Laundry From: The Ward |
- | Arlene Chan | 5 | 2015 | $0.50 Add |
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From  All AboardOur Enduring Love Affair with Trains From: Wanderlust |
Chapter Six examines trains and transportation by rail. The chapter explores the invention of trains, trains as connectors of the masses across the big countries of Canada and America, the … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! An Indigenous Archeologist at the Rouge National Urban ParkAGREEMENTS, NAMING, AND PLACES From: Indigenous Toronto |
A reading that explores Indigenous views on archeology, the presence of Ontario/Toronto’s Indigenous history, and the archeological finds at Rouge Urban National Park. | Stacey Taylor | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Aunt Jemima in ChicagoFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson explores the meaning of Uncle Tom within the context of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Here, Thompson suggests, Americans became increasingly obsessed … | Cheryl Thompson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Bao Tong’s Fall |
This chapter begins with the story of Bao Tong, a former senior Chinese official who was arrested for supporting the Tiananmen Square protesters. The chapter goes on to explore Bao Tong’s … | Michael Cormier | 26 | 2013 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Bars and BathhousesFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter concentrates on Faces, an early West End gay club, and Wayne Harris, a club member who later became the focus of a major vice squad investigation. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Beatty Blackstock, 1890–1906 |
Focuses on W.H. Beatty and Tom Blackstock and their significant roles at the firm. Struggles over power in the firm between Beatty and Blackstock are also chronicled. Other prominent figures of … | C. Ian Kyer | 266 | 2013 | $26.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Belly UpFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Five focuses on the creation of the Willcock & Wankel Logging company, the timber industry and licences, “timber cruising,” uncle Harold and Ron, their life in Church House, their … | Kathryn Willcock | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Blacks and the Canadian Labour MarketFrom: Black Canadians |
- | Joseph Mensah | 46 | 2010 | $5.52 Add |
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From  NEW! Canada at War, 1939-1945From: Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis |
This chapter discusses the experiences of Jewish Canadians after the outbreak of the Second World War. Topics include the roles Jewish Canadians played in the war effort, and the internment of … | Rona Arato | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Canada at War, 1939-1945From: Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis |
This chapter discusses the experiences of Jewish Canadians after the outbreak of the Second World War. Topics include the roles Jewish Canadians played in the war effort, and the internment of … | Rona Arato | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Canada to China: Overland, but Under Guard |
The chapter explores how both Canadian and Chinese men passed their time on the train journey westward, and the security protocols adopted to ensure CLC conscripts did not desert. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … | Yves Engler | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Canadian multiculturalism and its nationalismsFrom: Home and Native Land |
Argues the importance for Canadian scholars of noting the roots of at least some aspects of multicultural discursive practice in the United States. In the U.S., the discourse and even the … | Nandita Sharma | 19 | 2011 | $1.90 Add |
