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From NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized Peoples First Nations and Métis in the 1930s From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2025	$1.20 Add
From Rosedale Ravine From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown explores the lost rivers and roads of Rosedale Ravine, a natural area in Toronto’s Don River watershed that encompasses the Vale of Avoca, David A. Balfour …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World War Capital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	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
From Nordheimer Ravine and Glen Edyth/Roycroft Wetlands From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Nordheimer Ravine, home to Glen Edyth & Roycroft wetlands and a thriving tradition of citizen stewardship. He uses Nordheimer to …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program.	Bryan D. Palmer	7	2025	$0.70 Add
From Cedarvale Ravine From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Cedarvale Ravine, located in Toronto’s Don River watershed. Through Cedarvale, he illustrates how urban development has threatened and transformed …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing.	Bryan D. Palmer	19	2025	$1.90 Add
From Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat, an ecologically-restored area along Lake Ontario in Toronto’s Humber River watershed. He explores how the Butterfly …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s Momentum The Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula.	Bryan D. Palmer	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From King’s Mill Park and Humber Marshes Park From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes King’s Mill and Humber Marshes Parks in Toronto’s Humber River watershed, home to the pre-settlement Carrying-Place Trail and one of the areas …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s "The Great Darkness" From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 …	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From Echo Valley Park From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown explores the unusual botanical makeup of Toronto’s Echo Valley Park, once a fruit and nut farm operated by "Canada’s nut man," George Hebden Corsan.	Jason Ramsay-Brown	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse" The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	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
From Etobicoke Valley Park From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Etobicoke Valley Park, an idyllic strip of forested parkland found in Toronto’s far west end.	Jason Ramsay-Brown	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential Schools Colonial Coercions, 1940-70 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View	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
From Chapter 3 The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement View	This chapter considers the difficulties of organizing against employer hostility, relative state indifference, economic depression in the 1930s and then the emergence of vibrant new …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	27	2020	$2.70 Add