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Nta'tugwaqanminen Notre histoire

Nta’tugwaqanminen-Notre histoire présente la vision, la relation à la terre, l’occupation historique et actuelle du territoire, de même que les noms de lieux et ce que révèlent ceux-ci sur l’occupation ...

Reconnaissance et exclusion des peuples autochtones au Québec

Au-delà des politiques de reconnaissance des peuples autochtones au Québec et au Canada se profile un système légal d’exclusion qui a permis d’organiser un génocide culturel autour de la création ...

Sculpture in Canada

By (author) Maria Tippett
Categories: Sculpture

Found in public spaces and parks, art galleries and university buildings, along riverbanks as well as in city squares, private gardens and even underwater, Canadian sculpture encompasses a range of materials ...

Travellers Through Empire

In the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people—especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree—travelled to Britain and other parts of the ...

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this ...

Big Business and Hitler

By (author) Jacques R. Pauwels
Categories: European history

Basing his work on the recent findings of scholars in many European countries and the US, Jacques Pauwels explains how Hitler gained and held the support of powerful business interests who found the well-liked ...

Montreal, City of Secrets

By (author) Barry Sheehy
By (photographer) Cindy Wallace
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: None

Montréal hosted the Confederacy’s largest foreign secret service base during the Civil War. Montréal banks and other Canadian financial institutions held a million dollars or more in hard currency ...

Jacob Isaac Segal

By (author) Pierre Anctil
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Canadian Studies

Celebrated Montréal writer Jacob Isaac Segal (1896–1954) paved the way for a major literary movement in the North American Jewish diaspora. In tracing the poet’s literary trajectory, this book reflects ...

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

By (author) Kerry Mason
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

Arthur Pitts (1889–1972) born in the UK, came to Canada in 1914. He lived in Saanichton, British Columbia, attended the Westminster School of Art in London (1920) and the Vancouver School of Decorative ...

The Hand of God

Set against a background of intense religious and cultural change and tensions over the meanings of nationalism and federalism in both Québec and Canada, Michael Gauvreau’s The Hand of God traces the ...