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From  NEW! Chapter 1Deep Roots From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness |
In this chapter, Katlin Schwan asks us to consider how financialization, specifically the financialization of housing is contributing to the homelessness epidemic. Increasing rental prices, the … | Kaitlin Schwan | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Altona Forest |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Altona Forest, an ecologically-rich natural area in the Petticoat Creek watershed on the border of Pickering and Toronto. He uses Altona to reflect upon … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada "Regulates” Its Broadcasting SystemFrom: Canada Vs California |
In this Chapter author Howard Law provides a primer on how Canada has regulated its broadcasting system for the last several decades as well as the three amendments to this act over this period … | Howard Law | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 |
This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Tools of Canadian foreign policyFrom: Canada In Afghanistan |
In this chapter Schalk summarizes key moments in Canada’s political history that influenced Canada’s foreign policy leading up to, and including the years during Canada’s … | Owen Schalk | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From Terraview Park and Willowfield Gardens Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Terraview and Willowfield Gardens Parks, located near the artificial headwaters of Taylor-Massey Creek, and focal point for Toronto’s fledgling … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 10: Telling Canadian StoriesFrom: Canada Vs California |
Chapter 10 discusses the need for Canadian Stories. Howard Law speaks to the core goals of the national media strategy as the means to build a collective identity and foster a nationhood in the … | Howard Law | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s |
This chapter looks at how Inuit life was transformed by the fur trade, the church, state policing, and resource exploitation. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve and Milne Hollow, located in Toronto’s Don River watershed. He celebrates the historic contributions made by … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 11: Canadian Capital and the Global South, 1900-30 |
This chapter recounts how from the 1890s–1920s, Canadian capital went abroad and sugar, banking, and railway ventures across Cuba and the West Indies connected Canadian business internationally. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From Brookbanks Park and Deerlick Creek |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Brookbanks Park, located along Deerlick Creek in Toronto’s Don River watershed. He uses the park to illustrate how the ecological and historic … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930 |
This chapter shows how in the early decades of the twentieth century Indigenous Peoples, with diminished roles in traditional work, endured economic hardship and were excluded from steady wage jobs. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Leslie Street Spit and Tommy Thompson Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the novel ecosystem of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park), a five-hundred-hectare constructed peninsula built from decommissioned … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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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 The Forks of the Don |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Forks of the Don, a natural, cultural, and historical nexus where the waters of Taylor-Massey Creek merge with the East & West Don … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
