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A Coup by Any Other Name…

From: Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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A Crew of One

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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 … 13 $1.30 Add
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A Fine Kettle of Fish

From: The Ward Uncovered

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A Gateway City for the British Empire (1800-1850)

From: The History of Montréal

This chapter looks at economic and demographic development in Montreal. For the first half of the nineteenth century, Montreal underwent a surprising series of changes. Growth surpassed previous … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Two-Year Military Training Course or a Degree?

From: To Serve Canada

Academic Policy and the Regular Officer Training Plan (ROTP). 17 $2.21 Add
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A very active and energetic man

From: The Wheel of Things

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Aaron Hart’s Estate

From: The First Jews in North America

This chapter explores records concerning the affairs and quarrels over the estate of the Hart family at the time. 24 $2.40 Add
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Aboriginal Title

No Surrender

From: Unsettling Canada

Aboriginal Title, No Surrender follows Manuel through his late youth and early adulthood as he met his wife, began to grow his family, and attended university and later law school. The chapter … 13 $1.30 Add
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After the Komagata Maru

1945-1990

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru

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 … 26 $2.60 Add
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Afterwords

Private 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 … 16 $1.92 Add
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Against All Odds

The Chinese Laundry

From: The Ward

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All Aboard

Our 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 … 25 $2.50 Add
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An Indigenous Archeologist at the Rouge National Urban Park

AGREEMENTS, 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. 4 $0.40 Add
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Aunt Jemima in Chicago

From: 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 … 6 $0.60 Add
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Bars and Bathhouses

From: 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. 12 $1.20 Add