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Moved by the State
Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all‑too‑common lack of social services and economic opportunities. Moved...
ISBN: 9780774861014
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Nothing to Write Home About
British Family Correspondence and the Setter Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary...
ISBN: 9780774838443
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Putting Family First
Migration and Integration in Canada
When migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role. Putting Family First investigates the experience...
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Seeking the Court's Advice
The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power
Can Parliament legalize same‑sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms registry? Each of these questions is contentious and deeply political, and each was addressed by a...
ISBN: 9780774861113
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From Where I Stand
Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada
An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest levels. And she is not afraid to give Canadians what they...
ISBN: 9780774880534
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The Good Fight
Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy
The distinguished career of Marcel Cadieux makes him arguably the most important francophone diplomat and civil servant in Canadian history. Cadieux’s decision to join the Department of External Affairs in 1941 was unconventional for a...
ISBN: 9780774838979
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The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty‑first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming...
ISBN: 9780774860468
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Capturing Hill 70
Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War
In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This...
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The Empire on the Western Front
The British 62nd and Canadian 4th Divisions in Battle
When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen‑soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions....
ISBN: 9780774860154
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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future
Indigenous Education in Canada
In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in...
ISBN: 9780774880343
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Duty to Dissent
Henri Bourassa and the First World War
During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain,...
ISBN: 9780774838825
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Bootstraps Need Boots
One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada
For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self‑described Red Tory warrior who disdained “boot strap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted...
ISBN: 9780774890458
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In the Spirit of ’68
Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia
The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets,...
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Reluctant Warriors
Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors...
ISBN: 9780774835985
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Resisting Rights
Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76
From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government’s changing policy toward this endeavour from the 1940s...
ISBN: 9780774838191
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Fighting with the Empire
Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re‑examine their relationship to Britain...
ISBN: 9780774860413
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Four Unruly Women
Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada's Most Notorious Prison
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison. In this shocking and...
ISBN: 9780774838887
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Give and Take
The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden...
ISBN: 9780774836739
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Assembling Unity
Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Established narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives in the foreground, Assembling...
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For Home and Empire
Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War
For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while reinforcing...
ISBN: 9780774861205
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