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The Girl and the Game

The Girl and the Game traces the history of women’s organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to ...

Judge's Wife, The

By (author) Eunice M.L. Harrison
Foreword by Jean Barman
Categories: Biography: general

These memoirs offer a compelling account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province’s foremost lawyers ...

Blood on the Hills

The Korean War represented a series of firsts for Canadian soldiers - their first military action under UN auspices, their first under U. S. corps and army command, their first in Asia as ground troops, ...

Charter Conflicts

By (author) Janet L. Hiebert
Categories: History of the Americas

Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or to what extent ...

The Sinking of The Titanic

Few human events have stirred the imagination, inspired myths and movies and had such a hold upon the weste world as the sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic. In his convincing analysis of ...

Canada and the Idea of North

By (author) Sherrill E. Grace
Categories: Popular culture

Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. ...

Finding a Way

Ken Dryden moves from the personal to the global in setting forth a resolution oriented vision of Canada’s role in the 21st century. By drawing upon his own diverse experience, Ken Dryden addresses ...

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

By (author) Graham Fraser
Categories: History of the Americas

Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec ...

Building House In New France

By (author) Peter Moogk
Categories: History of the Americas

Building House In New France is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.