History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! School From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	The chapter describes their father’s career in the northern school system, the paternalism of the school system, her fathers role in running the residential school, and the original …	Margaret Macpherson	8	2022	$0.80 Add
From School Life From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	Chapter Three details what life was like for students within the Kamloops Indian Residential School, and written records of first hand accounts are provided.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	62	2022	$6.20 Add
From NEW! Scoop From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	This chapter focuses on the families first government house in the north, their neighbours, the forced friendship with Carmel Johnson and Margie’s cruel gift of soap, the residential …	Margaret Macpherson	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From Setting the Context – Background From: Colonized Classrooms View Fernwood Publishing		Sheila Cote-Meek	9	2014	$1.35 Add
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
From NEW! Shingwaukonse From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Koabel examines the 1849 struggle of Ojibwe leader Shingwaukonse to secure mining royalties for his people on the shores of Lake Superior.	Greg Koabel	18	2025	$1.80 Add
From Smallpox From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	66	2022	$6.60 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 Tidewater Press	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 Syphilis From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	56	2022	$5.60 Add