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Internment and Forced Labour

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War

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This chapter related the experiences of Japanese Canadians who were imprisoned and forced to work as a result of their being labeled ‘enemy aliens’. It illustrates this with drawings, … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Intertwined Tales

From: At Home

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Chapter 5 features interviews with Sandra Semchuk, Tim Schouten, and Marian Penner Bancroft. This chapter focuses on non-Indigenous artists whose sense of home are also inextricably bound up with … 16 $1.60 Add
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Into a New Century, 2000-09

From: Leading Progess

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This chapter describes how the PIPSC dealt with issues in the first decade of the 2000s, including Y2K and the globalization of computer systems, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Canadian war … 29 $2.90 Add
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Inventing the Nation Through the Ballot Box

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Much of Australia’s early identity as a nation revolved around its democratic experiments. In this paper I look at how Australian elections became family festivals rather than the drunken … 20 $2.00 Add
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Invertebrata

Part Four

From: Earthkeeping

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Part Four contains the sections: Spider Love, Of Mayflies & Millennia,Potato Bug Waltz, The Hornet Dilemma, Bumblebee Hotel, Ticked!. Topics discussed include spiders, the lifespan of … 26 $2.60 Add
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Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s

From: Heroin

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This chapter explores the increase in convictions under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in the 1950s and discusses the Oakalla Prison Farm and the Mimico Reformatory in Ontario, where some … 14 $1.40 Add
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Kerala: A Return to the Future

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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Chapter 6 examines the Indian state of Kerala, a small state in the southwest of the subcontinent that had been the site of ongoing reforms beginning almost immediately after its formation in … 23 $2.30 Add
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La Haute-Louisiane and the Far West

From: Songs Upon the Rivers

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This chapter looks at the history of French-descended Canadiens, Creole, and Métis populations in the area of Louisiana and the Far West. It looks at biases and inaccuracies in the … ; ; 48 $4.80 Add
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Lest We Forget

From: To Wawa with Love

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Outlines traditions in place in Sinterville for Rememberance Day 5 $0.50 Add
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Lindsay

The Saturation Site

From: The Case for Basic Income

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In this chapter, Swift and Power outline the Basic Income pilot project that took place in Lindsay, Ontario, and the various groups of ativists who made the project possible. ; ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Living Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Streets

Chris Vogel and Richard North on Gay Liberation in Winnipeg

From: Gender & Sexuality

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Maayipayowin

From: Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised Somewhere Else)

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Macdonald’s Centralism, 1878–1896

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Describes the shifting balance of powers between Ottawa and the provinces from 1878-1896. 16 $1.60 Add
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Mussolini the Economist

Did the Duce raise the Italian economy to its highest point?

From: Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good

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The author challenges the conception that things “went better” from an economic point of view in Fascist Italy, examining various Facist economic policies. He explores various aspects … 26 $2.60 Add
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Mutual Aid among the Barbarians

From: Mutual Aid

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In Chapter IV, Kropotkin looks at the challenges communal living as primitive societies move towards higher stages of civilization, and what is lost in the process. The chapter explores topics … 23 $2.30 Add
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My Role Was to Lead and Make Things Work

From: Let's Move On

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Okalik discusses his time in office after the creation of Nunavut in 1999, speking about the Bathurst mandate and various political decisions and his involvement in them. 8 $0.80 Add