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Gender & Sexuality

Gender & Sexuality

Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists

The freedoms and liberties that every community, workplace and individual in Canada enjoys are due to the many struggles and social movements in our country’s history. Yet the stories, … 217 View
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Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic Model
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Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic Model

From: Testimonio

Essays in this section: Profiting from Genocide: The World Bank and IDB’s Bloody History in Guatemala – The Genocidal Chixoy Dam Project – Testimonio: Sebastian Iboy Osorio … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Gentlemen and Plebeians on the War Path

Gentlemen and Plebeians on the War Path

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

1914 The armies of all belligerent countries have a very pronounced “class character.” The simple soldiers are almost exclusively plebeians, mostly peasants. The officers belong to … 11 $1.10 Add
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. … 258 View
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Geographies of Gay Sex in the Digital Age

Geographies of Gay Sex in the Digital Age

From: Any Other Way

Matthew Gagné describes the experience of hooking up in Toronto’s contemporary digital landscape. 3 $0.30 Add
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George Hislop: The Unofficial Gay Mayor

George Hislop: The Unofficial Gay Mayor

From: Any Other Way

Gerald Hannon provides a brief biography of George Hislop a gay rights advocate and politician. 3 $0.30 Add
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George Taylor Denison
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George Taylor Denison

From: Making of Canada

In this chapter, Koabel examines George Taylor Denison’s role in Canadian identity and anti-American sentiment during the American Civil War era. 13 $1.30 Add
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Georges Vanier
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Georges Vanier

From: The Governors General

In this chapter, Fraser traces the tenure of General Georges-Philias Vanier as Canada’s Governor General (1959–1967). 19 $1.90 Add
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Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw First Nation

Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw First Nation

“The nurse was trying to get me to sign a paper to put our baby, Derrick, up for adoption.”

From: How We Go Home

Geraldine Manson, of Snuneymuxw First Nation, shares her story about being an Elder in Residence at the Nanaimo campus of Vancouver Island University. She was in a residential school as a child … 18 $1.80 Add
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Get Mad - Play Rock 'n' Roll

Get Mad – Play Rock ‘n’ Roll

From: Any Other Way

Susan Cole recalls her experience forming a band in the 1970’s and the power of music to inspire a community. 4 $0.40 Add
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Getting Europe Out of the Tar Sands: The Rise of the UK Tar Sands Network

Getting Europe Out of the Tar Sands: The Rise of the UK Tar Sands Network

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 19 Jess Worth explores The UK Tar Sands Network (UKTSN), discussing solidarity with First Nations in Canada, exposing Canadian lobbying of the British and European Union (EU) … 10 $1.00 Add
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Getting Out the Vote
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Getting Out the Vote

(1928)

From: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

This chapter discusses Klan involvement in the electoral politics of Saskatchewan in the late 1920s 18 $1.80 Add
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Ghana, 1966

Ghana, 1966

From: Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy

In this chapter, Engler and Schalk explores Canada’s role in the 1966 military overthrow of Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, a leader widely celebrated across the continent. ; 8 $0.80 Add
Ghosts in a Photograph
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Ghosts in a Photograph

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn … 304 View
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Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?

Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?

From: Equal as Citizens

1990s. A tumulteous decade for Canada the main cause of turbulance being constitutional, the Reform Party, the McMahon thesis and rebuttles against it. Provincial studies of Ontario and Alberta … 15 $1.50 Add
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Girls’ Sport Run by Girls

Girls’ Sport Run by Girls

From: Immodest and Sensational

The 1920s had brought significant change to Canadian women’s sport with the growth of teams and leagues, especially those sponsored by industrial concerns, the beginning of international … 14 $1.40 Add