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Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extens……続きを見る

In 1966, a project to create a national honour for Canadians was begun. The order recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievements, dedication, and service to the country. It is a product o……続きを見る

There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of ……続きを見る

Lancé à la Librairie Tranquille le 9 août 1948, Refus global suscite aussitôt une vive controverse. Avec le recul, le manifeste nous apparaît comme la prise de position lucide d'un homme qui refuse ……続きを見る

The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s. This change required more than rising incomes and greater impulses to buy; it involved the crea……続きを見る

What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering ……続きを見る

Merlyn Carter Bush Pilot is a rollicking read about an uncommon man in an uncommon place at an uncommon time. Before civilization came to Canada’s Northwest Territories, bush pilots rescued the inju……続きを見る

A Public Park Like No Other: A story of the people who lived in and around the present Burloak Waterfront Park. This park is a treasure of nature accessible now to the public along the eastern entra……続きを見る

Originally approved as a master of laws thesis by a respected Canadian university, this book tackles one of the most compelling issues of our timeーthe crime of genocideーand whether in fact it can ……続きを見る

In 1882, Robert Koch identified tuberculosis as an infectious bacterial disease. In the sixty years between this revelation and the discovery of an antibiotic treatment, streptomycin, the disease wa……続きを見る

Les Canadiens-français ont à cœur de continuer en Amérique les traditions civilisatrices du pays de leur origine, et il faut avouer qu’ils n’ont pas à rougir de leurs débuts. Ce peuple s’est tiré pr……続きを見る

Depuis son retour d'Allemagne, l'auteur a reçu de tous les coins du Canada et de plusieurs endroits des États-Unis d'innombrables invitations pour conférences, discours, etc. A peu d'exceptions près……続きを見る

A Canadian is essentially a citizen of the world and the Canadian spirit is a sense of connection that makes the world work. Beyond that, nobody can define what it means to be Canadian because it's ……続きを見る

The War of 1812 - 1814 as it happened on upper Lake Huron. The start of the war was a bloodless offence against Mackinac Island, Michigan. Then, the pressure was on the Canadians to defend this isla……続きを見る

History, as it happened, on both sides of the turbulent rapids at the Sault, dividing a settlement into two countries. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and southern Lake Superior, historical chara……続きを見る

Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Cana……続きを見る

Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery is an account by a Canadian woman in the 19th century about abuse in a nunnery. It was later proven to be false. 続きを見る

The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous per……続きを見る

M. d'Avezac, dont il faut toujours citer l'ingénieuse et profonde érudition lorsqu'il s'agit de recherches sur l'histoire de la géographie, se plaignait naguère, et non sans raison, de l'indifférenc……続きを見る

Il y a un siècle cette année, Arthur Buies faisait son entrée dans notre petit monde littéraire en publiant ses Lettres sur le Canada, mélange d’étude sociale et de pamphlet contre l’ignorance du pe……続きを見る

Réminiscences Buies, né en 1840, jette un regard nostalgique sur ses années de jeunesse, soit la période 1860-1870. Il raconte un peu sa vie personnelle, mais surtout son implication auprès de l’Ins……続きを見る

Satire politique, analyse sociale, réflexion philosophique, les Chroniques d'Arthur Buies sont à la fois d'authentiques textes littéraires et de précieux documents pour l'histoire et la sociologie. ……続きを見る

INTRODUCTION HISTORIQUE; Aucun peuple ne semble avoir tenu aussi peu de compte que les Français de la part légitime qui devait lui appartenir dans l'histoire des découvertes & de l'exploration des c……続きを見る

Received an Honourable Mention for the 2018 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC’s first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist……続きを見る

Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the……続きを見る

Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the f……続きを見る

The North Atlantic has always been a place of danger, mystery, and fear. From the era of the early explorers to modern-day seamen, the brooding ocean finds a way to collect its wages from those dari……続きを見る

Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources ……続きを見る

Al Rashid Mosque, Canada’s first and one of the earliest in North America, was erected in Edmonton in the depth of the Depression of the 1930s. Over time, the story of this first mosque, which serve……続きを見る

How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? Tim McCaskell context……続きを見る