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René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

By (author) Graham Fraser
Categories: History of the Americas

Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec ...

Building House In New France

By (author) Peter Moogk
Categories: History of the Americas

Building House In New France is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher

From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ...

Through the Eyes of the Eagle

Translated by David Rome
Edited by Pierre Anctil
Categories: Social and cultural history

The output of the Yiddish press published in Montreal, starting in 1907, sheds a bright light on the mass migration of East European Jews to the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the ...

In Order to Live Untroubled

By (author) Renee Fossett
Categories: History of the Americas

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ...

Steveston

By (author) Daphne Marlatt
Illustrated by Robert Minden
Categories: History of the Americas

Ronsdale Press offers a new edition of Steveston, this much loved work by two of Canada’s finest poets and photographers. For this edition, Daphne Marlatt has written a new poem, never before published, ...

Benedict Arnold

By (author) Barry Wilson
Categories: History of the Americas

While most biographies of Arnold concentrate on his revolutionary exploits and subsequent treason, Wilson explores his role in Canadian history and the routes that brought him to Canada. He takes the ...

Northern Visions

Outstanding Academic Title, 2002 - Choice

Canadian nationalists in the 19th century argued that the North, with its extremes of winter, distance and isolation defined the country’s essential character ...

The Education of a Canadian

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the ...