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A Female Economy

By (author) Mary Kinnear
Categories: History

Kinnear details how ordinary women – including early pioneers, East European immigrants, Native women, and professional women – lived and what they thought of the world of work, often telling their ...

Huron-Wendat

By (author) Georges E. Sioui
Translated by Jane Brierley
Categories: Archaeology

In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the
original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by
describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both ...

Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism

Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism is an examination of the origins of Walter Gordon’s nationalist ideology and its impact on Canada. It traces his ideas from his family influences and ...

Academic Freedom in Canada

By (author) Michiel Horn
Categories: General and world history

Although currently under attack from several directions, academic freedom is as important as it has ever been in enabling academics to teach, to carry out research, and to offer disinterested criticism ...

The Burden of History

By (author) Elizabeth Furniss
Categories: Anthropology

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...

Painting the Maple

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Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race
and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health
care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,
and ...

Pauline Jewett

By (author) Judith McKenzie
Categories: History of the Americas

Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett’s childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the ...

Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples

All peoples living in Canada deserve to have a voice in its history. How and why did each people come to Canada? Where did the immigrants and their descendants settle? What kind of lives did they build ...

The Labradorians

By (author) Lynne Fitzhugh
Categories: History

Explorer Jacques Cartier dismissed it as the land God gave to Cain, but generations of people from widely differing cultures living in dense wilde ess conditions have forged the people of Labrador into ...

The Struggle for Quebec

By (author) Robert A. Young
Categories: History of the Americas

In The Struggle for Quebec Young updates this work, treating new developments and making his analysis accessible to a wider Audience. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign, as well ...