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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 |
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From NEW! Chapter 14: Class Conflict and SocialistsThe Era of World War and Revolution |
The chapter discusses how early-twentieth-century labour militancy —from the rise of the AFL to the Winnipeg General Strike — took place alongside Indigenous resistance but ultimately … | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From E.T. Seton Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes E. T. Seton Park, one of the most vibrant recreational areas in Toronto’s Don River watershed. Here, nature provides a scenic backdrop to biking, … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From Edwards Gardens and Wilket Creek Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown explores the relationship between the Toronto Botanical Garden, Edwards Gardens and Wilket Creek Park, a crossroads of native, exotic, and invasive plant life in … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 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 Lower Don Recreational Trail |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the Lower Don Recreational Trail, a commuting and recreational corridor that cuts through Toronto nature and history. He explores how ongoing cultural and … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 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 |
