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Les premiers pas de l'Acadie, 1604-1713

Enfin un ouvrage emballant qui met de côté les malheurs de l’Acadie pour mieux démontrer à quel point les pionnières et les pionniers du 17e siècle faisaient preuve de créativité, d’industrie ...

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory uniquely retells pivotal historical events that have been conventionally unchallenged in dominant historical narratives while presenting a fascinating personal ...

Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

By (author) Jane Nicholas
Categories: Social and cultural history

 

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as “The Monkey Girl” at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as ‘freaks’ in twentieth-century ...

Metis Pioneers

By (author) Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Categories: Indigenous peoples

In Metis Pioneers, MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s ...

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this ...

Jacob Isaac Segal

By (author) Pierre Anctil
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Canadian Studies

Celebrated Montréal writer Jacob Isaac Segal (1896–1954) paved the way for a major literary movement in the North American Jewish diaspora. In tracing the poet’s literary trajectory, this book reflects ...

Imperial Plots

By (author) Sarah Carter
Categories: Social and cultural history

Sarah Carter, FRSC, is professor and Henry Marshall Tory chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Despite legal and cultural obstacles ...

Price Paid

By (author) Bev Sellars
Categories: History of the Americas

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices that North America’s Indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation ...

The Iconic North

By (author) Joan Sangster
Categories: History of the Americas

Joan Sangster is a historian who teaches gender and women’s studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal ...

From New Peoples to New Nations

“Gerhard Ens and Joe Sawchuk have produced a compelling piece of work – one that will inform and contribute to ongoing debates within Métis studies for years to come. ”Nicole St-Onge, University ...