An ancient Arab proverb states, "When Allah made the Sudan, he laughed." Had he known the country’s future, he would have done better to cry. To most of the world, Sudan means Darfur and the tragedy of atrocities and ethnic...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Pigott, PeterSummary: - Author:Levine, NormanSummary:
This travelogue-turned-expose of the 'polite nation' at midcentury proved so shocking it took twenty-one years - despite initial acclaim when released in 1958 - to see a Canadian edition. A record of his three-month journey across the...
- Author:Rayner, WilliamSummary:
Things were very different in 1939 — a pivotal year when Canada wavered on the doorstep of a clouded future. Some years are more spectacular than others, and 1939 was no exception. Canada was a different place: steak was twenty-nine...
- Author:Chapnick, AdamSummary:
As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa's attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians - and...
- Author:Gonick, CySummary:
When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, cultural, artistic and political issues, he had no...
- Author:Martel, MarcelSummary:
To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco...
- Author:Crump, JenniferSummary:
Canadians have been celebrated participants in numerous conflicts on foreign soil, but most Canadians aren’t aware that they’ve also had to defend themselves many times at home. From U.S. General Benedict Arnold’s covetous attempts to...
- Author:MacDonald, CherylSummary:
In the 1860s Canada came under attack by Fenians, Irish military forces based in the US. It took the combined effort of British troops and the Canadian militia to repel the invaders. This book describes the conflict and how the events...
- Author:Wojna, LisaSummary:
This book takes you deep inside the weirdest and most peculiar aspects of our country:*Yes, there is a lighthouse in Saskatchewan!! Climb 153 steps to the top.*The Diefenbunker is a relic of the Cold War that was built just outside...
- Author:Birmingham, MariaSummary:
Canada is home to over 308 endemic species of plants and animals--meaning they're found nowhere else on Earth. In Canada Wild, award-winning author Maria Birmingham introduces young readers to twelve uniquely Canadian animals--many of...
- Author:Parks, JenniferSummary:
Until now, Canada's claim to the frozen expanses of the Arctic has gone largely unchallenged. No longer. Suddenly our great white North is on everyone's radar, and five other countries are all interested in redefining our international...
- Author:Hennessy, Peter H.Summary:
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter’s Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors...
- Author:Tidridge, NathanSummary:
The Canadian Crown is a unique institution that has been integral to our ideals of democracy from its beginning in 16th-century New France. Canadians enjoy one of the most stable forms of government on the planet, but there is a crisis...
- Author:Mount, GraemeSummary:
In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards. Neither the Americans nor the Spaniards...
- Author:Cosgrove, Edmund, Billing, BrickSummary:
First published in the 1960s and long out of print, Edmund Cosgrove recounts the lives of Canada’s outstanding pilots and their exploits in the two world wars. From the brilliant individualists who flew in the First World War to the...
- Author:Creighton, DonaldSummary:
Award-winning author Donald Creighton was a Red Ensign nationalist and firm supporter of the British Empire. At the time of writing this book, in 1976, he had come to believe that Canada was a lost cause. When everyone else was...
- Author:Dickason, Olive PatriciaSummary:
The sweep of Canadian history is both broader and deeper than standard texts reveal. When Europeans first came to Canada, they did not find a wilderness; rather, they encountered a complex, rich society composed of fifty-five individual...
- Author:Holman, Andrew C.Summary:
Almost every Canadian can hum the original Hockey Night in Canada theme - even those who don't think of themselves as hockey fans. For more than a century, Canadians have seen something of themselves in the sport of hockey. Canada's...
- Author:Barnetson, BobSummary:
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to...
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Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources,...
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