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  • J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography

    Mackenzie King's frugal finance minister who found the money for Canada's war 1939–1945

    by Barry Cahill ...
    A farmer’s son from rural Nova Scotia, J. L. Ilsley (1894–1967) is an almost forgotten figure who played a key role in government during the Second World War, even though he was despised by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Ilsley was spectacularly successful in cajoling and compelling Canadians to pay for the war. He became a highly regarded national figure. He gradually established his ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Rebuilding Halifax

    A history of the Halifax Relief Commission

    by Barry Cahill ...
    Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the place of municipal, provincial and federal governments in addressing the needs of the citizens and the city after the Explosion. He provides new insight into the pioneering town planning and construction of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Professional Autonomy and the Public Interest

    The Barristers' Society and Nova Scotia's Lawyers, 1825–2005

    by Barry Cahill ...
    Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario. Yet despite its founders' ambitions, it did not become the regulator of the legal profession in Nova Scotia for nearly seventy-five years.In this institutional history of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society from its inception to the Legal Profession Act of ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The Thousandth Man

    A Biography of James McGregor Stewart

    by Barry Cahill ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Professional Autonomy and the Public Interest

    The Barristers' Society and Nova Scotia's Lawyers, 1825–2005

    by Barry Cahill ...
    Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario. Yet despite its founders' ambitions, it did not become the regulator of the legal profession in Nova Scotia for nearly seventy-five years.In this institutional history of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society from its inception to the Legal Profession Act of ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Blue Banner

    The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and Presbyterian Witness in Halifax

    by Barry Cahill, Laurence DeWolfe, Murray Alary ...
    The Blue Banner is a case study of the survival of historic denominationalism grounded in resistance to church union. It traces the origins and near demise of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia and the development of Saint David's from its beginnings as a new congregation and the only site of Presbyterian witness in metropolitan Halifax. The authors look at various aspects of congregational life - ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Blue Banner

    The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and Presbyterian Witness in Halifax

    by Barry Cahill, Laurence DeWolfe, Murray Alary ...
    The Blue Banner is a case study of the survival of historic denominationalism grounded in resistance to church union. It traces the origins and near demise of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia and the development of Saint David's from its beginnings as a new congregation and the only site of Presbyterian witness in metropolitan Halifax. The authors look at various aspects of congregational life - ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004

    From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle

    Edited by Barry Cahill, Philip Girard, Jim Phillips ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term, surveys of jurisprudence (the court's early federalism cases; its use of American law ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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  • The Case of Valentine Shortis

    A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada

    by Martin Friedland ...
    Series series Heritage
    Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in Canada, was played out against one of the most dramatic periods in Canadian political history. Before ... Read more

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  • Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders

    The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada

    by Greg Malone ...
    The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949.A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic island. The twists and turns are as dramatic as ... Read more

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  • Memoirs and Reflections

    by Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Read more

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  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

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