Dominion Lands Policy

Dominion Lands Policy

Author: Chester Martin

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1973-01-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 077358319X

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First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.


Dominion Lands Policy

Dominion Lands Policy

Author: Chester Martin

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0771097697

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The administration of public lands in the three prairie provinces of the Canadian West was the most important activity of the federal government for sixty years after the acquisition of the region in 1870. Martin studies the policies devised by politicians and officials for the disposal of public lands, and the granting of concessions to individuals and business interests for exploiting the other natural resources of the area.


A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two

A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two

Author: Jim Phillips

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1487545681

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This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the establishment of colonies of agricultural settlement and resource exploitation. The book addresses the most important developments in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including legal pluralism and the co-existence of European and Indigenous law. It pays particular attention to the Métis and the Red River Resistance, the Indian Act, and the origins and expansion of residential schools in Canada. The book is divided into four parts: the law and legal institutions; Indigenous peoples and Dominion law; capital, labour, and criminal justice; and those less favoured by the law. A History of Law in Canada examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term.


A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939

A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939

Author: Jonathan Wagner

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0774812168

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Human migration figures prominently in modern world history, and has played a pivotal role in shaping the Canadian national state. Yet while much has been written about Canada's multicultural heritage, little attention has been paid to German migrants although they compose Canada's third largest European ethnic minority. A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 addresses that gap in the record. 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 government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration. This book will appeal to students of German Canadiana, as well as to those interested in Canadian ethnic history, and European and modern international migration.


The National Policy and the Wheat Economy

The National Policy and the Wheat Economy

Author: Vernon Fowke

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1957-12-15

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1487597150

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First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems. This important study in political economy is organized into four main parts. In Part One the author traces the development of the national policy and its impact on the growth of the wheat empire in the years before 1900. In Part Two, he discusses the grain marketing problems of western Canada during the 1900-1920 period. Part Three is a masterful exposé of the history of the open market system and of the history and policies of the Canadian Wheat Pools, and Part Four examines the economic philosophy behind the development of the national policy.


Theft Is Property!

Theft Is Property!

Author: Robert Nichols

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1478007508

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Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing, Nichols also brings long-standing debates in anarchist, Black radical, feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples.


Farmers "making Good"

Farmers

Author: Lyle Dick

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1552382419

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Between 1882 and 1920, settlers from Ontario established social and economic structures at Abernethy, Saskatchewan. By virtue of hard work, perseverance, and the critical advantage of having arrived first, they transformed the Pheasant Plains into a prosperous farming community. This book traces the area's political and economic development.