Automobiles
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From  1928-1936: Communists Build a Foundation |
In this chapter, Leah traces Communist efforts to organize auto workers across Canada from 1928 to 1936, building toward the landmark 1937 Oshawa strike at General Motors. | Tony Leah | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! A Future of Cars and CanadaFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this concluding chapter, Anastakis offers an overview of how automobiles have fundamentally shaped Canadian society, economy, and landscapes. He deals with how Canada’s infrastructure … | Dimitry Anastakis | 5 | 2026 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! AlbertaFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird examines Alberta’s Trans-Canada Highway journey to the 1956 completion of its 536-kilometre stretch through the Rockies. | Craig Baird | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! British ColumbiaFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird traces British Columbia’s road-building history, from the Cariboo Wagon Road of the 1860s through the Big Bend Highway of the 1930s to the Trans-Canada … | Craig Baird | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Campus Parking and the Car as a Third PlaceAsphalt Grievances and Commuter Sociability From: Degrees of Failure |
Using the examples of three Canadian schools, this chapter demonstrates how issues concerning the automobile, especially both the lack and expansion of on-campus parking, have become major policy … | Randle W. Nelsen | 13 | 2017 | $1.30 Add |
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NEW! Canada’s Main StreetThe Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway |
Much has been written about the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first major transportation network that bound Canada coast to coast, but almost nothing about The Trans-Canada Highway, even though … | Craig Baird | 223 | 2025 | View |
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From  Canada’s New Carscape:Town and Country Remade From: Car Nation |
1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Canada’s New Carscape: Town and Country RemadeFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the impact of autos and Canadian transport networks, building new highways and road systems. He examines how urban development patterns modified to … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation |
1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
Car NationAn Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel |
Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by … | 96 | View | ||
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NEW! Car Nation CanadaAn illustrated history |
A full-colour illustrated history of cars and car-makers, with images of Canadian cars old and new, plus car company ads and promotional images. Canadians have been building cars from the … | Dimitry Anastakis | 106 | 2026 | View |
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From NEW! Cars, Canadians, and the Twenty-First CenturyFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the history of the Canadian auto sector from its historic peaks in 2000-2026. He highlights how shifting trade rules challenged the integrated … | Dimitry Anastakis | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
 Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk |
Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current … | James Wilt | 306 | 2020 | View |
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From Driving into the World, from Oil Crisis to TodayFrom: Car Nation |
1973 – 2005. Looks at the oil shock of 1973, looks at the car industries involvement in nationalism, continentialism, and globalization, the development of fuel economy & emissions … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Driving into the World: From the Oil Crisis to the MilleniumFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the history of Canada’s auto industry from early 1970s to 2000. He covers the history of key manufacturing firms, including incoming Japanese and … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Early AttemptsFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird traces Canada’s early efforts to build a coast-to-coast highway, from the 1910s through 1948. | Craig Baird | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
