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  • The People and the Bay

    A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

    by Nancy B. Bouchier, Ken Cruikshank ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    This masterful social and environmental history raises questions about how decisions being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow.In 1865, John Smoke braved the ice on Burlington Bay to go spearfishing. Soon after, he was arrested by a fishery inspector and then convicted by a magistrate who chastised him for thinking that he was at liberty to do as he pleased “with ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Cold Fire

    Kennedy's Northern Front

    by John Boyko ...
    Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and everyone feared a nuclear holocaust.At the centre of this story are three leaders. President John F. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    by Katrina Srigley ...
    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Read more

    $29.69 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

  • Colossal Canadian Failures

    A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

    by Randy Richmond, Tom Villemaire ...
    Did you hear the one about the canal builder who forgot canals need water? The battle where everyone ran away? Or the boat made of ice, and the town that mixed up time? How about the shovel invented for soldiers with a hole in it? Colossal Canadian Failures is a lighthearted look at Canada's unsung heroes the eccentrics, the failures, the misguided, and the just plain overoptimistic who never met ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Entrepreneurs

    From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

    by Andrew Ross, Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Dictionary of Canadian Biography
    Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it.This captivating ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

    A Very Trippy Miscellany

    by Adriano Sack, Ingo Niermann ...
    Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Everyday Law on the Street

    City Governance in an Age of Diversity

    by Mariana Valverde ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the political culture itself. In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana Valverde brings to light the often unexpected ways ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • How Different It Was

    Canadians at the Time of Confederation

    by Michael J. Goodspeed ...
    An enthralling exploration of the lifestyles, ideas, habits, organizations, customs, fears, and aspirations of Canadians in the age of Confederation.Too often we think of Victorian Canada as dull. We imagine our ancestors as sepia-tinged, dour, excruciatingly respectable figures sitting stiffly in over-decorated parlours. In How Different It Was, Michael J. Goodspeed changes all that, bringing to ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island

    by Julie V. Watson ...
    In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea and to ships. From the first explorers through immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone -- many lost to the relentless sea. Julie Watson has dug through the archives and unearthed harrowing accounts, from the expulsion of the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edge of the World (storey 23 of 40)

    Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series Book 23 - The White Girl
    April in the Arctic means there are still three months left until spring arrives. Spring, springs into action overnight and the next day it is summer. And then, just before you realize that it is summer, snow flies and you skip over the season of fall and fast-forward back into winter once again. But in April you get to squint into the sun. It blinds you with its prisms of brilliance. Snow banks ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • The Great Neighborhood Book

    A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking

    by Jay Walljasper, Project for Public Spaces (PPS) ...
    Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood?Neighborhoods decline when the people who live there lose their connection and no longer feel ... Read more

    $15.89 USD