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When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will, King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly ...

Vimy 2017

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Vimy : Au-delà de la bataille
9781988282077

Explore the lasting impact of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 100 years later. This souvenir catalogue explores how perceptions of Vimy ...

Forged in Fire

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Surmonter l’épreuve : Canada et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
9781988282015

The Second World War transformed Canada and its place in the world. The outbreak of war in September ...

Imperial Plots

By (author) Sarah Carter
Categories: Social and cultural history

Sarah Carter, FRSC, is professor and Henry Marshall Tory chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Despite legal and cultural obstacles ...

Backs to the Wall

By (author) D. Peter MacLeod
Categories: History of the Americas

D. Peter MacLeod is a historian at the Canadian War Museum, and he curated the Seven Years’ War and The Battle of the Plains of Abraham exhibits. His other books include The Canadian Iroquois and the ...

Traitors of Camp 133, The

By (author) Wayne Arthurson
Categories: Second World War

Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently, by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s quite so simple. How could it be, with blackshirts, legionnaires, ...

The Frontier of Patriotism

Adriana A. Davies is a writer, editor, and poet, and is the founding executive director of the Heritage Community Foundation. Jeff Keshen is dean of arts at Mount Royal University.

Readers will come away ...

The Life and Art of Mary Filer

Christina Johnson-Dean is a teacher and writer. Her books include of The Life and Art of Ina D. D. Uhthoff, shortlisted for the Victoria Butler Book Award; The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher ...

Indigenous Writes

By (author) Chelsea Vowel
Categories: Colonialism and imperialism

In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue about concepts and the wider social beliefs associated with the relationship between Indigenous ...

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By (author) Bev Sellars
Categories: History of the Americas

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices that North America’s Indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation ...