HISTORY
The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors
In The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors, David E. Smith presents an accessible analysis of the interconnectedness of Canada’s parliamentary institutions. Smith argues that Parliament is a unity comprised ...
Catharine Parr Traill's The Female Emigrant's Guide
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice ...
150 Years of Canada
On Canada’s 150th birthday, we remember some of the most fascinating and important events and people in Canada’s history year by year:
• On July 1, 1867, the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia ...
How Canada came to be
This book celebrates Canada’s 150th birthday. Its origins lie in a cross-Canada solo train trip the author made, from Pacific to Atlantic coasts, to celebrate Canada’s 100th birthday. A rich history ...
Tax, Order, and Good Government
Was Canada’s Dominion of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s ...
Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 3
Canada’s Department of External Affairs offers readers an unparalleled look at the evolving structures underpinning Canadian foreign policy from 1968 to 1984. Using untapped archival sources and extensive ...
The Blue Shirts
Hugues Théorêt describes a dark period in Québec’s ideological history using an objective approach and careful, rigorous research in this book, which won the 2015 Canada Prize. While Adolf Hitler ...
Seven Grains of Paradise
Joan Baxter’s personal quest to learn about the fascinating and much neglected story about many kinds of food in Africa, a continent with a rich farming tradition, intricate cuisines, and a multitude ...
Unbuttoned
When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will, King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly ...
Washington's Long War on Syria
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United ...