North America local history

I'll Go the Length of Meself: The Story of Newfoundland's Daring Rascal, Captain Guy Earle, North America's Youngest Master Mariner

"Guy's life was a living adventure: he was a mariner and navigator of the first order, a character with the bravery of a Viking and the kindness of Robin Hood....

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Sex and the Married Girl: Heterosexual Marriage and the Body in Postwar Canada

Sex - who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't - was a major concern to social authorities in the...

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The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province's population and...

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Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia: Or, How I Went to the Bottom of the Ocean, and a Giant Fish Accidentally Got Me Drunk

Pat Spain is used to doing things that he acknowledges are not normal -- such as lying in a pit of 200,000 snakes or having a pygmy village take excessive...

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Residential Schools and Reconcilliation: Canada Confronts Its History

Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal...

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Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada's Second Wave

An analysis of how emotions shape and nourish feminist activism. From the anger behind beauty pageant protests to the fury that galvanizes the fire bombings of pornographic video stores, emotions...

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The Eye of the Beholder

Coracarries secrets her daughter can't know. Freyais frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angelwill only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. Angel is...

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Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia

A clear-eyed study that dissects the unstable ideologies of settler-Indigenous land and title arrangements in British Columbia. The question of land dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties upends...

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Junior Field Guide: Birds of Nunavut: English Edition

There are a lot of different types of birds living in Nunavut. From snowy owls to rock ptarmigans, learn all about what each bird looks like, how they live, what...

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A Postcard from Canada

Twins Camila and Carlos find a postcard in their mailbox from a boy in Canada, and they set off on a magical adventure to see his country.Author: Laurie FriedmanPublisher: Crabtree...

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Dominion Over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean

From the expansionist fervour of the late nineteenth century through both world wars and the Cold War, a varied and ever-changing group of dreamers campaigned for Canada's union with the...

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The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island

Tourism has been a central part of Prince Edward Island's identity for more than a century. What began as a seasonal sideline in the nineteenth century evolved into an economic...

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Disciples of Antigonish: Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1880-1960

For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the...

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Search for the Unknown: Canada's UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory

Beginning in the 1950s, alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Canadian skies bred tension between the state and its citizens. While the public demanded to know more about the...

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Protestant Liberty: Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828-1878

Tensions between Protestantism and Catholicism dominated politics in nineteenth-century Canada, occasionally erupting into violence. While some liberal politicians and community leaders believed that equal treatment of Protestants and Catholics would...

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Journey From Fort Prince Wales, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean [microform]: for the Discovery of Copper Mines and a North West Passage, Perfor

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain...

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Smelter Wars: A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur Slim Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia to establish Local 480 of the International...

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Talavera Designs Adult Coloring Book: Mexican Festive Color Your Best Talavera Pottery Meditation And Stress Relief

Enjoy and relieve stress with this beautifully decorated Talavera pottery and be creative and full of inspiration to color in your note this traditional Mexican art.Features: - 35+ coloring pages.-...

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Saguenay, Sâginawa, the River of Deep Waters

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain...

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Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican...

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Women in the Peninsular War

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented--both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality....

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From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico

In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from...

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Historia De Nuevo León Con Noticias Sobre Coahuila, Tejas, Nuevo México

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain...

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