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Projecting Canada

By (author) Zoë Druick
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Arts Insights Series

Zoë Druick teaches media and cultural studies, communications, Simon Fraser University.

Alberta's Oil Patch

By (author) Tim le Riche
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: 20th Century Series

From the pioneering days of the province’s oil industry at Turner Valley to the evolution of the massive oilsands extraction system at the Athabasca tarsands, business reporter Tim LeRiche writes an ...

Rwanda

By (author) Robin Philpot
Categories: History

Quebec Central Railway:

By (author) Derek Booth
Categories: History

Derek Boothís story of the Quebec Central Railway, serving the upper St. Francis and ChaudiËre River valley regions of southern Quebec for over 130 years. The Quebec Central included links with Quebec ...

Canada in Space

By (author) Chris Gainor
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Legends

Canadians have always had a pioneering spirit. We’ve explored our country and our planet, and now we’re exploring space. Read more about Canada’s amazing contributions to space research and discovery: ...

St. John's College

By (author) J. M. Bumsted
Categories: History of the Americas

With roots going back to the Red River Settlement in the 1850s, Winnipeg’s St. John’s College is the oldest Anglophone educational institution in Western Canada. First founded as a school for the ...

Thompson's Highway

For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed ...

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 ...

An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate

By (author) Rudolf Kurz & Elizabeth Kurz
Categories: History of art

‘Sin creates [ an inclination ] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgement of good and ...