History of the Americas

Showing 21-30 of 253 title(s)
Sort by:

Know It All

By (author) James H. Marsh
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Reflections

In Know It All: Finding the Impossible Country James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in Canadian publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia ...

The Racial Mosaic

Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the ...

Kepmite'taqney Ktapekiaqn - Le chant d'honneur - The honour song

By (author) George Paul
Illustrated by Loretta Gould
Translated by Hélène de Varennes & Barbara Sillyboy
Categories: History of the Americas

Lors de nombreux évènements officiels ou cérémonies spirituelles chez les Premières Nations du pays,

un chant est entonné par les participants. Ce chant a vu le jour dans le coeur et la tête de ...

Les Plaines d’Abraham

Le 13 septembre 1759, l’armée britannique, commandée par le major général James Wolfe, et l’armée française, que dirige le marquis de Montcalm, s’affrontent sur les plaines d’Abraham. Au ...

Le féodalisme dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent

By (author) Matteo Sanfilippo
Edited by Arnaud Montreuil
Translated by Olivier Guimond
Series edited by Michel Bock
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: Amérique française

L’histoire de la seigneurie laurentienne est-elle la fille du conflit politique?? C’est, entre autres, à cette question que répond Le féodalisme dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent : un problème ...

Okanagan Women’s Voices

An anthology of literary non-fiction featuring women’s historical narratives from the early settlement period of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. The writing and relations between Syilx women ...

Undressed Toronto

By (author) Dale Barbour
Categories: History of the Americas

While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing ...

From Sojourners to Citizens

From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the present. It places them in the narrative of province building ...

Bushman’s Lair, The

By (author) Paul McKendrick
Categories: Biography: general

Evocative of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, this fascinating portrait of John Bjornstrom—a far-from-ordinary fugitive—makes for a page-turning read. | The ...

Authorized Heritage

By (author) Robert Coutts
Categories: History of the Americas

Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are ...