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A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939

By (author) Jonathan Wagner
Categories: History of the Americas

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian ...

The World is Our Witness

The Final Agreement of Canada’s Nisga’a Treaty is a major milestone in the history of aboriginal and government negotiations. This ground-breaking treaty recognizes the right of the Nisga’a people ...

Ghosts of the World

Ghosts, it seems, are everywhere, even in corners of the world where you’d least expect them. In this fascinating new collection, ghost story expert Susan Smitten leaves no stone unturned in her quest ...

Unsettling Encounters

By (author) Gerta Moray
Categories: Ethnic studies

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s work ...

Religion and Canadian Society

Religion and Canadian Society: Traditions, Transitions, and Innovations offers an outstanding selection of readings that represents an overview of the key issues in the sociology of religion from a uniquely ...

To Touch a Dream

By (author) Sunny Wright
Categories: Biography: general

This warm-hearted memoir tells the story of the dream of many North Americans: to throw up a dull job and journey into the wilderness to live off the land. Sunny Wright does exactly that when she decides ...

Sons of the Movement

Sons of the Movement documents the female-to-male (FtM) transition process from an insider’s point of view, and details the limitations of both surgical procedures and pronouns. Bobby Noble challenges ...

The Poetics of Anti-Racism

Exposing the linguistic racism that permeates vocabulary about race and equity, this book addresses the importance of unseating the sometimes unrecognized racism of everyday Language. The Contributors ...

Power and Restructuring

This is a book about power in small places, its perceptions and realities; where these conflict and where they come together. Based on research conducted on Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the ...