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  • Spying on Canadians

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War

    by Gregory S. Kealey ...
    Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Secret Service

    Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America

    by Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, Andrew Parnaby ...
    Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations.Drawing on previously classified government records, the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Debating Dissent

    Canada and the 1960s

    by Lara A. Campbell, Dominique Clement, Gregory S. Kealey ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era’s transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians – and not only protestors, youth, or the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • A Communist for the RCMP

    The Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant

    by Dennis Gruending ...
    In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon hundreds of other people who held progressive views. Hadesbeck’s “Watch Out” lists on behalf of the Security Service included labour activists, medical doctors, lawyers, university professors and students, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Canada Investigates Industrialism

    The Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital, 1889 (Abridged)

    Edited by Gregory S. Kealey ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the 1880s Canadians began to cope with the meaning of their emerging industrial society. During that decade the federal government first investigated industrial conditions and provincial governments passed Canada's first factory legislation. The same period saw the resurgence of an articulate and angry labor movement protesting against the excesses of modern industry.Through the Royal ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

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  • Dragonfly in Amber

    A Novel

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series Book 2 - Outlander
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The second book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.“A triumph! A powerful tale layered in history and myth. I loved every page.”—Nora Roberts**With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters—Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Worth Fighting For

    Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror

    Edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney ...
    Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important historical tradition of resistance to both war and militarization. This collection brings together the work of sixteen scholars on the history of war resistance. Together they explore resistance to specific ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    by Conrad Black ...
    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Just Watch Me

    The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

    by John English ...
    This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Great Depression

    1929-1939

    by Pierre Berton ...
    Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Duel

    Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada

    by John Ibbitson ...
    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada.**John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major ... Read more

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  • Memoirs

    by Brian Mulroney ...
    Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next year, he ran the most successful election campaign ... Read more

    $18.99 USD