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Contesting Canadian Citizenship

Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been ...

Blood on the Hills

The Korean War represented a series of firsts for Canadian soldiers - their first military action under UN auspices, their first under U. S. corps and army command, their first in Asia as ground troops, ...

Charter Conflicts

By (author) Janet L. Hiebert
Categories: History of the Americas

Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or to what extent ...

The Sinking of The Titanic

Few human events have stirred the imagination, inspired myths and movies and had such a hold upon the weste world as the sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic. In his convincing analysis of ...

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

By (author) Graham Fraser
Categories: History of the Americas

Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec ...

Building House In New France

By (author) Peter Moogk
Categories: History of the Americas

Building House In New France is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher

From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ...

Through the Eyes of the Eagle

Translated by David Rome
Edited by Pierre Anctil
Categories: Social and cultural history

The output of the Yiddish press published in Montreal, starting in 1907, sheds a bright light on the mass migration of East European Jews to the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the ...

In Order to Live Untroubled

By (author) Renee Fossett
Categories: History of the Americas

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ...