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Survival

By (author) Margaret Atwood
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: A List

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way ...

The Illustrated History of Canada

By (author) Craig Brown
Categories: History
Series: Carleton Library Series

First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and ...

Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century

Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, ...

Warrior Nation

By (author) Ian McKay & Jamie Swift
Categories: Military history

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles, the New Warriors, are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central ...

In Search of R.B. Bennett

By (author) P.B. Waite
Categories: History of the Americas

Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet, as P. B. Waite shows, Bennett's lasting contributions to Canada are ...

Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit

On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the ...

Canada

In this breathtaking coast-to-coast photographic panorama of Canada, Mike Grandmaison presents a portrait of a country whose seasons reflect the many moods of nature in all its glory. Whether it is the ...

Search for a Nation

By (author) Janet Morchain, Mason Wade & John Trent
Categories: Nationalism

Search For A Nation is an unique resource which explores 10 major crises in French- English Relations from 1759 to 1995. The third edition adds the constitutional crisis from 1982 to 1992, culminating ...

They Called Me Number One

By (author) Bev Sellars
Categories: Memoirs

Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended St. Joseph’s Mission in Williams Lake, BC, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tells of hunger, ...

Finding a Way to the Heart

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of ...