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The Frontier of Patriotism

Adriana A. Davies is a writer, editor, and poet, and is the founding executive director of the Heritage Community Foundation. Jeff Keshen is dean of arts at Mount Royal University.

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Human Rights in Canada

Is there such a thing as a Canadian rights culture? There are virtually no limits to how people employ rights-talk today, from the most profound violations of individual freedom to the mundane realities ...

Canadian Countercultures and the Environment

Those who moved “back-to-the-land” following the turbulent 1960s engaged with environmental issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society. This collection contributes a sustained ...

Visibly Canadian

Spectacular, scientific, and educational cultural practices were used to establish and define public identities in the British colonies of nineteenth-century Canada. In Visibly Canadian, Karen Stanworth ...

History and Renewal of Labrador's Inuit-Métis

History and Renewal of Labrador’s Inuit-Métis is a collection of twelve essays presenting new research on the archaeology, history, and contemporary challenges and perspectives of Inuit-Métis of central ...

Canada the Good

By (author) Marcel Martel
Categories: History of the Americas

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take ...

Motherlode

“The voices emerging from the pages are haunting: replete with powerful emotions and modernity. " –Isabelle Laflèche

Motherlode is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s Orphic journey to reclaim the past of ...

Reel Time

In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argue that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century ...

Baba's Kitchen Medicines

By (author) Michael Mucz
Categories: Social and cultural history

Michael Mucz’s prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba’s Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada’s ...

Making the Scene

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni ...