Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But...
HISTORY / Canada / General
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Auteur:Heaman, E.A., Tough, DavidSommaire: - Auteur:Souchen, AlexSommaire:
During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles, and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. However, the end...
- Auteur:Foster, CecilSommaire:
A historical work of non-fiction that chronicles the little-known stories of black railway porters-the so-called "Pullmen" of the Canadian rail lines. The actions and spirit of these men helped define Canada as a nation in surprising...
- Auteur:MacEachern, AlanSommaire:
On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the...
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Auteur:Bacon, John U.Sommaire:In 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster took place: the largest...
- Auteur:Bown, Stephen R.Sommaire:
The story of the Hudson's Bay Company is the story of modern Canada's creation. And it has never before been told in such depth and detail as in this new book by Stephen R. Bown.
- Auteur:Horner, DanSommaire:
The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and...
- Auteur:Buday, GrantSommaire:
"Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, Orphans of Empirebrings to life the half-forgotten world of early British Columbia. This is an immersive, shimmering novel." —Steven Price, author of #1 nationally bestselling By...
- Auteur:Greene, Melissa FaySommaire:
One evening in late October 1958, the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped"-its rock floors heaved up and smashed into rock ceilings. Most of the men on the shift perished. But nineteen men were trapped alive a mile below the...
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Auteur:Cheoreos, David, Simonson, Karen, Marshall, DebbieSommaire:An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Century takes us from an English doctor plunked into the middle of Alberta's unsettled...
- Auteur:Macfarlane, DanielSommaire:
Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Fallsreveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that...
- Auteur:Doolittle, RobynSommaire:
Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video of Mayor Rob Ford apparently smoking crack cocaine and report on it in May 2013. Doolittle presents a portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family, and a city...
- Auteur:Gettler, BrianSommaire:
Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money -...
- Auteur:Webster, DavidSommaire:
In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Windrecounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor...
- Auteur:Currie, Philip J.Sommaire:
Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s to the present day. Yet scholars have largely neglected Canadian–Irish relations since the consolidation of the Irish...
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Auteur:Mofford, Glen A.Sommaire:A rowdy, rollicking popular history that celebrates the tales of Victoria’s drinking establishments in their heyday. From the raunchy saloons that lined Victoria’s notorious Johnson street to the lavish high-class hotel-bars like the...
- Auteur:Wilkinson, Michael, Ambrose, Linda M.Sommaire:
Early Pentecostal revivals swept through Canadian communities, big and small, in the early 1900s. Reports abounded of worshippers falling down at the altar, speaking in tongues, having dreams and visions, and experiencing divine healing...
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Auteur:Wong, May Q.Sommaire:A Cowherd in Paradise chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew Thloo (1911–2002). Ah Dang was born into an impoverished family and sold as a child. In 1921, his adoptive father paid a five-hundred-...
