Ros - Canada 1

The island doesn't give up its secrets; it just allows us to bury our own inside of it. Most people know Oak Island from televisionーa place of dramatic music, cliffhangers, and a revolving door of ……続きを見る

In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment. In Cha……続きを見る

Canada Unscripted: Conversations with Canadian Media Icons showcases twenty-one of the most influential voices in Canadian film and broadcasting. In these intimate and often surprising interviews, c……続きを見る

In the turbulent 1930s, Canada faced a political undercurrent few remember today ー the rise of homegrown fascist movements. While Hitler's shadow fell across Europe, small but vocal groups in Canad……続きを見る

Reds Under the Bed is a vivid and meticulously researched account of one of the most turbulent political chapters in Canadian historyーthe clashes between the Communist Party of Canada and a paranoi……続きを見る

En juin 1755, après l’assaut des Britanniques contre le fort Beauséjour, situé à la frontière de l’Acadie, Tonin Grandmont, dit le Comtois, un soldat de 26 ans d’origine comtoise, gît sur le champ d……続きを見る

In the decades following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for……続きを見る

Agricultural societies founded in the colony of Upper Canada were the institutional embodiment of the ideology of improvement, modelled on contemporary societies in Britain and the United States. In……続きを見る

I was bitten by the baseball bug at age nine while listening to Mel Allen broadcast the 1950 World Series. I had limited practical baseball experience when I attended a baseball camp in Missouri on ……続きを見る

Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came fro……続きを見る

This fast paced historical thriller takes place against the background of a rising Fenian movement in the United States and the overt hostility of Washington toward the ‘Canadas’ immediately after t……続きを見る

To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower CanadaーLoyalists, "late" Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekersーliving in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary asso……続きを見る

In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their impor……続きを見る

The events at Oka in 1990 saw the might of the Canadian Armed Forces in the service of the governments of both Quebec and Canada confront some 40 armed Mohawk “Warriors” who were defending their loc……続きを見る

The fur trade that rode the Canadian river highway from York factory to the West was dwindling, and the settlers, following the missionaries, are moving in to claim the new land.John and Adolphe, am……続きを見る

Several books on Rob Ford have already been published. Though we should not judge their authors’ intentions, even a brief look at them tells us that they have been written from the point of the medi……続きを見る

A prodigious letter writer, Hargrave saved drafts of his business and personal correspondence in letterbooks. He wrote to family and friends settled in Beauharnois County on the south shore of the S……続きを見る

This book traces the journey taken by the Canadian Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions / Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM), from its establishment in Manitoba in 1898 to ……続きを見る

A vivid historical account of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the battle for furs and empire waged in the Oregon Country. 続きを見る

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experien……続きを見る

Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations ba……続きを見る

"Populism is not a political theory, system or ideology. It is a crude appeal to a certain part of the population gaining support by reinforcing their belief that their economic and social attainmen……続きを見る

In "Chez Nous (Our Old Quebec Home)," Adjutor Rivard masterfully weaves a tapestry of memories that encapsulates life in Quebec through the lens of nostalgia and cultural identity. With lyrical pros……続きを見る

From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, developers bu……続きを見る

The battle fought on September 13, 1759, on the Plains of Abraham, at the gates of Québec, was a momentous one: only the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House in 1865 was to have such a……続きを見る

La battaglia combattuta il 13 settembre 1759, sulle alture di Abraham, alle porte di Québec, fu una battaglia epocale: solo la resa del generale Lee ad Appomattox durante la guerra civile americana ……続きを見る

Ottawa, lieu de vie français traite des transformations urbaines et des façons pour les francophones d’Ottawa de penser et de construire leur ville, à partir des années 1960, creuset d’idées et d’ac……続きを見る

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese coul……続きを見る

A prodigious letter writer, Hargrave saved drafts of his business and personal correspondence in letterbooks. He wrote to family and friends settled in Beauharnois County on the south shore of the S……続きを見る

Despite Canada’s active participation in the First World War, which many claimed made Canada a nation, the country was almost defenceless in September 1939 when war was declared again. Larry D. Rose……続きを見る