North America local history
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The First Flute: Whowhoahyahzo TohkohyaNames should be respected. They should be valued. They should be honoured. When a name is given to an adult, it is often given based on the life that person has lived. The name is a statement about the person he or she has...
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Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian RelationsAn overview of settler colonialism and the pathway to decolonization and reconciliation from an indigenous perspective Written in an accessible style and ideal for classroom use, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity...
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Our Grandmothers' Lives: As Told in Their Own WordsThis collection of reminiscences and personal stories tells us about the daily lives of Cree women over the past century: household chores, snaring rabbits, and picking berries, going to school, marriage, bearing and raising children. Seven Cree women share memories about their lives and...
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AlegoAn enchanting and utterly authentic introduction to the life of an Inuit child and her world. Written and illustrated by Ningeokuluk Teevee, one of the most interesting young artists in Cape Dorset, home to the great tradition of Inuit art, this is a beautifully...
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Tuk and the WhaleTold by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers. This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s....
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Raven and the Mountaineer: Explorations of the St. Elias MountainsThe Raven and the Mountaineer is the most significant contribution toward the history of the St. Elias Mountain Range -- the Himalayas of Canada. To introduce this mountain range to the reader the author has chosen the aboriginal emblem and traditionally sacred bird the...
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The the Best of All Possible WorldsDavid Arnason has spent a lifetime along the shores of Lake Manitoba near the settlement of New Iceland, or Gimli as it is officially known. A keen observer, not much misses his notice and over his long writing career the lake and the town...
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Tecumseh & Brock: The War of 1812At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is struggling to maintain its position as a world power; and the incumbent American empire is quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle...
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Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and LegaciesCivilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures--past and present-- which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. Exploring the connections, contrasts, and continuities across...
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Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada: 1945-1989During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values. Diplomats, industrialists, politicians, professionals, workers, and students fled to...
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Defining Métis: Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898"Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries'changing interests and agendas. "Defining Métis" sheds...
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Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: 1525 to 1980Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and...
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Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian PrairiesStoried Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West. Viewed through the lens of attachment to the soil and specific place, and through the eyes of both the immigrant generation and its...
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Winnipeg 1912At the beginning of the last century, no city on the continent was growing faster or was more aggressive than Winnipeg. No year in the city's history epitomized this energy more that 1912, when Winnipeg was on the crest of a period of unprecedented...
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Mexican MosaicOur new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a colony of Spain and, after...
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Toward Magnetic North: The Oberholtzer-Magee 1912 Canoe Journey to Hudson BayA stunning collection of conservationist and explorer Oberholtzer's photographs and journal entries from his famous paddle to Hudson Bay.Author: Ernest OberholtzerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 06/01/2008Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.24h x 12.24w x 0.67dISBN: 9780873516235
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Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of Francois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin WilliamsAvailable for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of Fran ois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and...
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Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the...
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The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for...
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Biking to Blissville: A Cycling Guide to the Maritimes and the Magdalen IslandsOver highways and byways and converted railway roadbeds, Biking to Blissville gives maps and precise directions for about forty bicycle rides through the most scenic areas of Maritime Canada. Most of the trips are loops. Each leads from a country inn, motel, or campground...
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