HISTORY
Outrageous Seas
There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country’s social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, ...
Straight Talk
So begins this collection of Stéphane Dion’s speeches from 1996 to 1998. Organized around four central themes, Straight Talk shows the breadth and strength of Dion’s convictions. Dion believes that ...
Compass Points
Compass Points is a radical new history of the twentieth century. Each section, organized by decade, grapples with crucial developments in politics, economics, society and culture--in Canada and abroad. ...
Canada's Navy
From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO ...
Where We Buried the Sun
The memoir of a young woman who in 1951 at the age of 17 was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result spent five years in ...
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man
who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social,
and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of ...
A History of Domestic Space
This is a history of domestic space in Canada. Peter Ward looks at how
spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries,
and how family and social relationships have shaped — and ...
The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret
In The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret Katherine McCuaig takes an in-depth look at the campaign against TB, from its beginnings as part of the turn-of-the-century urban social reform movement to the ...
Families in Transition
Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social ...
Pearson
In this collection of essays marking the centenary of Pearson’s birth, eighteen leading academics, journalists, public servants, and politicians recreate and reassess Pearson’s premiership from 1963 ...