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Dès qu’on a quitté le littoral du Saint-Laurent et qu’on a pénétré quelque peu dans l’intérieur, ce qui frappe avant tout le regard, ce sont les manifestations géologiques du sol. On se trouve en pr……続きを見る

La conquête du Canada par l’Angleterre fut le signal, non seulement d’un changement radical de régime, d’institutions et de politique, mais encore de la cessation complète de toute relation commerci……続きを見る

Je vous arrive comme un revenant. Oui, je viens d’une plage inconnue, déserte, absolument inhabitable, si ce n’est par des castors, sur laquelle j’ai été jeté, il y a quinze ans, en pleines ténèbres……続きを見る

LE pays qui porte le nom modeste de « Province de Québec » comprend une superficie de 347,000 milles, environ 560,000 kilomètres carrés : c’est l’étendue de la France et de la Prusse réunies. La pro……続きを見る

Les deux bassins du Saguenay et du lac Saint-Jean semblent n’avoir qu’une histoire récente, puisque les premières tentatives de colonisation ne remontent guère à plus de cinquante ans. Mais nos père……続きを見る

IL Y A CINQUANTE ANS Vers la fin de 1844, un écrivain, qui porte un nom estimé dans la littérature française, grand chasseur devant Dieu et assez véridique devant les hommes… pour un chasseur, venai……続きを見る

J’ai guère plus d’une heure à vous parler, et j’ai à faire dérouler devant vous, au pas de course, l’histoire de plus de deux siècles et demi. Les faits passeront devant vous, rapides, sans répit, s……続きを見る

Take a journey across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks. With Canada's World Wonders, you'll visit Banff National Park, the first link in a vast network of natural pa……続きを見る

The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements. Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life ……続きを見る

More than 100,000 children were sent to Canada from heavily industrialized areas in Britain between 1869 and 1948 in the belief that they would have a better future. For many, their lives were bleak……続きを見る

“We operated perfectly legally. We considered ourselves philanthropists! We supplied good liquor to poor thirsty Americans ... and brought prosperity back to the Harbour of Vancouver ...”ーCaptain C……続きを見る

"What is Canadian cuisine? Lenore Newman distils much of the current thinking into the erudite and elegantly readable Speaking in Cod Tongues. Her odyssey across the country provides a wealth of cul……続きを見る

One woman's personal journey of moving deeper into Indigenous knowledge and working to resist the racist and sexist legacy of the Indian Act. Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fightin……続きを見る

In this first-hand account of the earliest days of settlement in the Canadian West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strang……続きを見る

The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the heartland of French……続きを見る

The biography of a British girl, split from her family by the British child migration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada. Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry ー Book #1 In 1937, 10-ye……続きを見る

Ce qu’il faut, ce qui est un besoin essentiel, une condition absolue d’existence pour les peuples modernes, ce sont les grands travaux industriels, l’application vaste et répétée de la science, et d……続きを見る

CONFÉRENCES - Messieurs, Il y a quelques semaines à peine, le 1er août dernier, se tenait à Paris une réunion mémorable de délégués spéciaux venus de toutes les parties du monde, et qui prenait le ……続きを見る

Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental co……続きを見る

Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North A……続きを見る

This section features chapters on humans and the seven principle domestic mammal species in Canada, such as the domestic dog, cow, and goat. The Natural History of Canadian Mammals is a beautifully ……続きを見る

La Constitution canadienne est un livre introductif sur la loi suprême du pays. La Constitution canadienne rend la loi suprême du pays plus facilement accessible aux lecteurs. Le livre comprend des ……続きを見る

In August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, ……続きを見る

Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the “second wave” women’s health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-center……続きを見る

While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusses the history of obesity and fatness f……続きを見る

The world has undergone a revolution in assisted reproduction, as processes such as in vitro fertilization, embryonic screening, and surrogacy have become commonplace. Yet when governments attempt t……続きを見る

En présentant ce livre au public, l’auteur remplit un devoir. Pendant quatre longs mois tout un peuple a eu les yeux fixés sur les vastes territoires du Nord-Ouest, pendant quatre longs mois des cen……続きを見る

Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s five books on strange supernatural happenings. Macabre Montreal Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, an……続きを見る

After fighting Napoleon, O'Hara moved his family to Upper Canada, bought land in what became Roncesvalles and Parkdale villages, helped suppress the 1837 rebellion, and lived a pioneer life. 続きを見る

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It w……続きを見る