History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Setting the Scene From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	Chapter One provides the historical context within which Kamloops Indian Residential School came to be.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From Settlement in an Age of Mercantilism: Chartered Companies, Clash of Empires, 1500-1700 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses mercantilism and the beginnings of chartered companies such as the Hudson Bay Company and European settlement in Canada as the European empires sought to expand their trade …	Bryan D. Palmer	10	2024	$1.00 Add
From Shanawdithit From: The Beothuk Collection: Atlantic Canadian History: The Social, Economic and Political History of the Maritimes and Newfoundland Breakwater Books	This chapter describes the life of the last known Beothuk individual, a woman named Shanawdithit.	Ingeborg Marshall	6	2009	$0.60 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
From NEW! Soul From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	This chapter remembers Margie’s relationship with Sylvan Johnson, her sickly neighbour, his attempt to save Margie’s soul, his death and funeral, his sister Carmel’s regret, and …	Margaret Macpherson	20	2022	$2.00 Add
From Speculators and Boodlers From: Cheated View ECW Press	Chapter Four details an immigration scam pulled off by deputy minister James Smart and other Liberal government officials.	Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen	31	2023	$3.10 Add
From NEW! Sticks and Stones From: On Account of Darkness View twp	The author tells the story of the Kicknosways, who faced anti-Indigenous racism as they navigated life and the world of sports in Canada. Other stories are also told and racial tensions and …	Ian Kennedy	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Sun Peaks to Geneva Playgrounds and Fortresses From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	Sun Peaks in Geneva follows Manuel’s time fighting against the Nippon Cable’s Sun Peaks development. The chapter explores the disregard for sustainability and respect to Indigenous …	Arthur Manuel	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Sun Spot From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	The chapter explores Margie’s memories of new mukluks, the 1956 Meteor station wagon, and a child’s fear of the unknown.	Margaret Macpherson	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Taking It to the Bank Accounting for Unpaid Debt From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	Taking it to the Bank focuses on the Indigenous right to self-determination and to economic control over their own territories.	Arthur Manuel	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The Battle in the Forest The Trade in Indian Trees From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	The Battle in the Forest discusses Manuel’s experiences working with and against B.C. forestry. The chapter explores how Indigenous people and lands bear the brunt of the logging’s …	Arthur Manuel	12	2021	$1.20 Add
The Beothuk Breakwater Books	A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title …	Ingeborg Marshall	88	2009	View
From The Black Robes Return From: Songs Upon the Rivers View Baraka Books	This chapter looks at the Black Robes and Catholic church’s role in some of the history of French-descended and French-speaking populations in North America.	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	43	2016	$4.30 Add
From NEW! The Colonized Strike Back: Red Power, 1965–75 From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Palmer examines grassroots Indigenous organizations that used land occupations and protests to challenge colonial assimilation policies across Canada. He details how these …	Bryan D. Palmer	23	2026	$2.30 Add
From The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited View University of Ottawa Press	In his final report, issued in 2002, Romanow, among other things, addressed the health status of Aboriginal people in Canada (First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples). His recommendations, and …	Falko Brede	22	2008	$2.20 Add
From NEW! The Constitution Express A Grassroots Movement From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	The Constitution Express follows the creation of the Constitution Express movement founded by Manuel between 1980-1981. The movement was a reaction to protest the lack of Indigenous rights in the …	Arthur Manuel	11	2021	$1.10 Add