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Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush
by Melanie Mayer
Publisher Comments
"Traces the lives of some two dozen women who participated in the gold rush as wives, single women, or even as children .... What emerges is no common portrait... ( read more)
List Price $18.95
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Studies in Gender and History #19: Giving Birth in Canada1900-1950
by Wendy Mitchinson
Book News Annotation
Following her book about women and their doctors in Victorian Canada,
Mitchinson (history, U. of Waterloo) examines the history of the
childbirth process during a half century when the medicalization of
childbirth, begun in the late 19th century... ( read more)
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Louisbourg 1758: Wolfe's First Siege (Praeger Illustrated Military History Series,)
by Rene Chartrand
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Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. As by-passing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication, Louisbourg had to be taken. The siege itself was a tremendous... ( read more)
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Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of "A Few Bad Apples"
by Carol Tator
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In October 2002, the Toronto Star ran a series of feature articles on racial profiling in which it was indicated that Toronto police routinely target young Black men when making traffic stops. The articles drew strong reactions from the community, and... ( read more)
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Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun
by Norah L Lewis
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An entertaining view of the toys, games and activities in Canada and pre-confederate Newfoundland from approximately 1900 through 1955. In both rural and urban settings, children were generally free to explore their environment. They were sent outdoors... ( read more)
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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
by Will Ferguson
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Canada's number one humorist delivers a funny, idiosyncratic, and warmly humane book full of sly observations and witty stories culled from his travels among the people and places of his homeland.... ( read more)
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Mirror with a Memory: A Nation's Story in Photographs
by Janice Weaver
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Canada and the art of photography came into existence together in the middle of the nineteenth century. Both had shaky beginnings — one was an upstart country struggling to emerge from the shadow of its great neighbor, the other a rough art form... ( read more)
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Sing a New Song: Portraits of Canada's Crusading Bishops
by Julie H Ferguson
About the Author
For the first time, Sing a New Song tells the stories of four Canadian bishops who pushed the envelope and changed the world. All have faced severe opposition; one was involved in the only Anglican schism in Canadian history; two jeopardized their... ( read more)
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Forging the Prairie West
by John Herd Thompson
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This second volume in the Illustrated History of Canada series relates the eventful, occasionally violent history of the three "prairie" provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). Covering exploration as well as economic, political, and social... ( read more)
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Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975
by Marcel Martel
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Marijuana had been illegal in Canada since 1927, explains Martel, but
in 1961 it was classified under the Narcotics Control Act and
abruptly became a topic of social debate. He examines that debate
from such perspectives as reporting and measuring use,... ( read more)
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Municipal Reform in Canada: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Determinants
by Joseph Garcea
Publisher Comments
This book presents an analysis of the purposes, processes, politics, and outcomes of reform for each of the provinces and the northern territories. These analyses reveal that reforms during this turn-of-the-millennium period have reconfigured and in some... ( read more)
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Farewell to the Twentieth Century
by Pierre Berton
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In this "compendium of the absurd," Pierre Berton looks back on some of the fads, follies, and fancies of his century--a period his grandchildren are already calling the Olden Days. In close to fifty essays, fables, and pseudo-documents, Berton covers a... ( read more)
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Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
by Wayne Johnston
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The acclaimed author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams introduces us to the Johnstons of Newfoundland in an intimate, captivating memoir of three generations of fathers and sons. The New York Times called Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams... ( read more)
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Gold Rush Women (Images of America)
by Claire Rudol Murphy
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This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women -- miners, madams, merchants, and mothers -- who went North during the gold rush era.... ( read more)
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Women of the Klondike
by Frances Backhouse
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Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women--entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists--who played a critical role in the Klondike Gold Rush.... ( read more)
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Reading the Entrails an Alberta Ecohisto
by Norman Conrad
Book News Annotation
Early in the 20th century, the Russian Vladimir Vernadsky used the
term "biosphere" to indicate nature and "noosphere" to indicate human
culture. Conrad's history of Alberta spans the period from the end of
the ice age to the most recent convulsion... ( read more)
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Great & Noble Scheme the Tragic Story
by John Mack Faragher
Publisher Comments
ON AUGUST 25, 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been our secret Enemies. ...If we Effect... ( read more)
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Lord Black
by George Tombs
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In this remarkable book, journalist and author George Tombs tracks the rise and fall of one of the world's most colorful figures. Lord Black paints a portrait of a brilliant, complex and driven man. Here is Black as the angry and rebellious student who... ( read more)
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Grizzlies & White Guys: The Stories of Clayton Mack
by Harvey Thommasen
Publisher Comments
The extraordinary life story of Clayton Mack (1910-1993), a legendary hunting guide from the Nuxalk Nation (Bella Coola), is told in his own words. To Clayton Mack, who loved the wilderness and whose most precious memories were of the days when people... ( read more)
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Republican Option in Canada
by David E Smith
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Canada Is One Of A Declining Number Of Monarchies In The World, Yet Canadians have never seriously considered a republican alternative. The nature of Canada's monarchy and the question of whether a republican form of government might prove superior are... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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