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  • Sidney Earle Smith

    by Edward Annand Corbett ...
    Series series Heritage
    The career of Sidney Earle Smith, Dean of Law, Dalhousie University (1929-34), President of the University of Manitoba (1934-44), President of the University of Toronto (1945-59), had a variety of backgrounds which were significant in determining his impressive achievement in Canada's humanistic tradition. He was reared in the vigorous landscape and living of the Maritimes, rigorously trained in ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • The Queen at the Council Fire

    The Treaty of Niagara, Reconciliation, and the Dignified Crown in Canada

    by Nathan Tidridge ...
    Series Book 1 - Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada (ISCC) at Massey College
    In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara — an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples. This treaty, symbolized by the Covenant Chain Wampum, is seen by many Indigenous peoples as the birth of modern ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inventing Academic Freedom

    The 1968 Strax Affair at the University of New Brunswick

    by Peter C. Kent ...
    In 1968, there was political ferment everywhere. In Paris, students were in the streets. In the U.S., civil rights, the Vietnam War, and protests against the draft brought out millions. In this atmosphere, a young Jewish-American professor in the quiet town of Fredericton, New Brunswick sparked a controversy that established the principles of academic freedom on Canadian campuses.Norman Strax was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Called to Jackson, Mississippi: the Last Bastion of Segregation

    A Historical Documentary

    by James E. McLean, Brandon Sparkman ...
    Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in 1970. But an anonymous, threatening letter lured him there. In this memoir and historical documentary, Sparkman narrates what it was like to try to ensure a quality education for all students in Jackson and to save the schools from complete chaos and destruction during the height of desegregation.Called ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Parkin

    Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

    by William Christian ...
    George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maria Montessori

    A Biography

    by Rita Kramer ...
    The definitive biography of a physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of the most influential, and controversial women of the 20th century.Maria Montessori effected a worldwide revolution in the classroom. She developed a new method of educating the young and inspired a movement that carried it into every corner of the world. This is the story of the woman behind the public figure ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The University of Toronto

    A History, Second Edition

    by Martin L. Friedland ...
    The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and ideas into a remarkable synthesis. His scholarly yet highly readable account presents colourful presidents ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Halfway up Parnassus

    A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

    by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • What We Learned

    Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

    by Helen Raptis ...
    Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves.In What We ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603

    by R. Paul Evans ...
    Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.- Maps the content against the key questions in the 2016 specification, with thorough and reliable course coverage written by a team of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ontario Boys

    Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945--1960

    by Christopher J. Greig ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity, instability, and gender anxiety brought on by depression-era and wartime disruptions in marital, familial, and labour relations, as ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Race and the University

    A Memoir

    by George Henderson ...
    In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university ... Read more

    $14.39 USD