History
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Masters of Their Own Bodies
The Great Canadian Birth Control Trial by Peter Giuliani
Sex and the long arm of the Catholic Church. Eccentric millionaires and Canada's Eugenics Society. Poverty and intolerance trapping the working class. It’s 1936 during the Great Depression and the nation watches as a spectacular court case...
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Ruta's Closet
by Keith Morgan and Ruth Kron Sigal
Ruta’s Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery...
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Culture of Control
Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board by Ken Motiuk
In 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB’s increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West were prohibited from responding to free market...
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Letters from Spirit River
Memoirs of a Land Grant Bride by Isobelle Ross Caswell
From the late eighteen hundred to the early nineteen hundreds the government of Canada granted plots of land to entice individuals to help settle remote areas of -—especially north western Canada. That was how born and bred city dweller Isobelle...
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The Travels of John Cook Sr. United Empire Loyalist
by Lori Cook
The Travels of John Cook Sr. – United Empire Loyalist is a journey travelled by John Cook Sr. U.E.L. as interpreted by Lori Cook. During the 1750 to 1800 period, sweeping changes transformed both the public social lives and private family lives....
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My Mennonite Oma's People
A Story of Love and Loss by Ernie G Dyck
If we had the ability to speak with our ancestors, what kinds of stories would they share? Would we get a glimpse into the lives and people the history books miss? A better understanding of the events that shaped our families and, ultimately, our...
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Musical Colours
Marches of the UK and Canadian Forces by Ian Pearson and Jack Kopstein
On the cover of the 1970 record THE VANISHING REGIMENTS, Colonel CH Jaeger OBE made an interesting observation: ‘Be it true or not that old soldiers never die but only fade away, it is absolutely certain that the music connected with soldiering...
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The Canal At Sault Ste Marie
The South Shore Quarry's Contribution to Canadian History by Shirley Hoskins and Jan Joyce
This is the story of how a long abandoned limestone quarry on the south shore of Manitoulin Island played a small, but significant role in Canadian history. For over one hundred and twenty years the story of the quarry has lived on in the...
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From Ancient Gaul to Canada
A Trip Through the Enchanting History of French Canadians by Dennis Kish
From the Celtic peoples of ancient Gaul to the French settlers of Québec, this is the epic tale of how we became Canadians. In 390 BC, the ancient ancestors of the French-speaking peoples lived in a huge region of western Europe known as Gaul....
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Positively Canadian
A Fun Guide to Canadian Language, Culture and History by Heather Ann Pattullo
To know more interesting things about this great country of Canada… Come take an informal walk with the author across each territory and province. The conversational writing style makes it totally readable and delightfully entertaining. Enjoy...
