2025
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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 4: The Actual Cost of Doing Nothing |
This chapter introduces the concept of the “cost of doing nothing” and its implications for Indigenous economic development and social inclusion. | Carol Anne Hilton | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: The Steel Industry, Hydroelectric Power, and Wartime Profits, 1890-1929 |
This chapter chronicles the rise of Ontario’s steel and hydroelectric industries and the role the state assumed in development, such as in the case of Ontario Hydro and wartime … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 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 Indigenous Economic Media Narrative |
This chapter exposes the false narratives used throughout Canadian history resulting from Indian Act policies that perpetuate harm and injustice to Indigenous communities. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 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: An Indigenous Perspective-Shaping Meaning |
This chapter, through behavioral analysis and anthropomorphizing of the Act, explores how Indian Act economics has impacted Indigenous social and economic development. | Carol Anne Hilton | 28 | 2025 | $2.80 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 |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Urbanization and Immigration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter looks at urban growth between 1901 and 1931, during which immigrant workers experienced widening wage gaps, slum conditions, and extreme inequality in access to public-health. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: On Love and Being LovedFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter explores what life, love and relationships might have looked like throughout Serafim’s life at a time in history where, much like today, racialized communities were forced to … | Ruby Smith Diaz | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: Stoking the Fire – Designing for Radical Inclusion |
This chapter explores the Indigenous economic and governance structures that, by centering Indigenous self-determination, dismantle Indian Act economics. | Carol Anne Hilton | 42 | 2025 | $4.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: "White Canada Forever"Racism and Building the Nation State, 1896-1929 |
This chapter examines how racism seen in the 1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riot was both exploited to divide workers and a matter of public policy, evident in the Chinese head tax (1885–1903), … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s |
This chapter traces the rise and fall of foreign-controlled companies such as British Empire Steel Corporation in Nova Scotia headed by Roy Wolvin. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: LegacyFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the final years of Serafim’s life, sharing Serafim’s final reflections on the life he lived and how he was chosen to be remembered by those in Vancouver. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
