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Author: G.P. de T. Glazebrook
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1964-01-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0773591346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1938, Volume two deals with Canadian transportation from 1867 to the late 1930s, and includes what is regarded as one of the best short discussions of the Canadian "railway problem."
Author: Conrad Black
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 1146
ISBN-13: 0771013558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMasterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation. Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, this masterful history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world. From Champlain to Carleton, Baldwin and Lafontaine, to MacDonald, Laurier, and King, Canada's role in peace and war, to Quebec's quest for autonomy, Black takes on sweeping themes and vividly recounts the story of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. Black persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Brilliantly conceived, this major new reexamination of our country's history is a riveting tour de force by one of the best writers writing today.
Author: G.P. de T. Glazebrook
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1964-01-15
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0773591095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1938, A History of Transportation in Canada is regarded as the standard work on the subject. Its great merit lies in the way in which it skillfully links advances in transportation with the course of Canadian political and economic history. Volume 1 covers the history of transportation from the French regime to the first railway era and the time of Confederation.
Author: Alan Bowker
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2014-08-19
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1459722825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOttawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.
Author: Jim Phillips
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1487545681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: H. Macquarrie
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1969-01-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0773583157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edited by Butler Marian
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Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 1632
ISBN-13: 9780802049742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 48000 titles, of which approximately 4000 have a 2001 imprint, the author and title index is extensively cross-referenced. It offers a complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing the names and ISBN prefixes, as well as the street, e-mail and web addresses.
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Published: 1992-10
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J.M.S. Careless
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780888626646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.
Author: James Pritchard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2011-05-20
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0773585613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells the story of the rapidly changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion of the shipyards and the role of ship repairing, as well as recruitment and training of the labour force. He also tells the story of the struggle for steel and the expansion of ancillary industries. Pritchard provides a definitive picture of Canada's wartime ship production, assesses the cost (more than $1.2 billion), and explains why such an enormous effort left such a short-lived legacy. The story of Canada's shipbuilding industry is as astonishing as that of the nation's wartime navy. The personnel of both expanded more than fifty times, yet the history of wartime shipbuilding remains virtually unknown. With the disappearance of the Canadian shipbuilding industry from both the land and memory, it is time to recall and assess its contribution to Allied victory.
