Colonialism
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From  NEW! Chapter 13: Residential Schooling and the Suppression of "the Indian," 1890-1930 |
This chapter explains how Residential schools assimilated Indigenous children by separating them from their families, subjecting them to coercion and abuse and erasing their culture. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 |
This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 17: On the Eve of the Great DepressionWarning Signs in the 1920s |
This chapter details how the speculation and expansion of the 1920s gave way to overproduction, and reliance on exports, as increasing debt made the economy acutely vulnerable to the 1929 crash … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 18: Economic CollapseThe Great Depression of the 1930s |
This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 2: He Always Followed the SeaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter further discusses Serafim’s early life, him leaving his home in Kairi, his travels and treatment while sailing on the Robert Kerr. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 21: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesQuebec in the 1930s |
This chapter relates the double colonization of Québec in the 1930s, as francophone workers were subjected to the repressive policies of the Anglo economic and political order while First … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse"The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 |
This chapter details how at the end of WWII, Canada celebrated Indigenous war heroes like Tommy Prince and passed limited reforms through the 1951 Indian Act, yet at the same time denied the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential SchoolsColonial Coercions, 1940-70 |
This chapter recounts how in the postwar years, particularly after 1960, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment climbed rapidly as policing, courts and prisons replaced schools and reserves as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: All Crab Find Dey HoleFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter details how the crew aboard the Robert Kerr, including Serafim, came to land in Vancouver and the communities settling on the land at this time. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 30: Arctic AlterationsInuit Relocation in the 1950s |
This chapter discusses Cold War needs in the Arctic such as the DEW line and capitalist exploits that destroyed Inuit economies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 31: ConclusionCanada at Mid-Century |
This chapter outlines how at mid-century the state had achieved labour calm and a certain amount of economic and political stability while it had removed thousands of First Nations and Inuit from … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: Reading Between the Lines of White SupremacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter discusses the impact racism and white supremacy had on the preservation of Black history in Vancouver and why it made difficult for Díaz to locate true details of … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: Quantifying MelaninFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter uses archival materials to showcase the ways Serafim’s Blackness was quantified, classified and written about by white residents in Vancouver, a practice that has throughout … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929 |
This chapter examines development across Canada including the vast amounts of immigration that fuelled the resource-based economy in British Columbia and the wheat economy of the Prairies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Joe Fortes, Model Negro CitizenFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter, using historical excerpts and images, highlights the racism experienced by non-white communities and by Serafim in the early 1900s. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
