From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO ...

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man
who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social,
and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of ...

In this collection of essays marking the centenary of Pearson’s birth, eighteen leading academics, journalists, public servants, and politicians recreate and reassess Pearson’s premiership from 1963 ...

Kinnear details how ordinary women – including early pioneers, East European immigrants, Native women, and professional women – lived and what they thought of the world of work, often telling their ...

Although currently under attack from several directions, academic freedom is as important as it has ever been in enabling academics to teach, to carry out research, and to offer disinterested criticism ...

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...

Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett’s childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the ...

All peoples living in Canada deserve to have a voice in its history. How and why did each people come to Canada? Where did the immigrants and their descendants settle? What kind of lives did they build ...

In The Struggle for Quebec Young updates this work, treating new developments and making his analysis accessible to a wider Audience. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign, as well ...

The book provides an excellent description of the birth and development of remote sensing, especially valuable in Canada because of its many areas of difficult access, and of geographical information ...