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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 (Law and Society)
מאת Douglas C. Harris
"Landing Native Fisheries" reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island betwee...
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Alex MacLean was the inspiration for the title character, Wolf Larsen, in Jack London's bestselling novel, The Sea-Wolf. Originally from Cape Breton, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America when he was just twenty-one and worked there for thirty-five years as a sailor and sealer. His ach...
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Homes are our most personal, private places, at the heart of how we conceive of life outside the public sphere. A History of Domestic Space explores how domestic architecture has shaped and been shaped by family and social relationships over the past three centuries. The changing form, settin...
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In the 240 years from contact to the present, British Columbia's population has experienced transformations of a kind and magnitude witnessed nowhere else in North America. The introduction of exotic diseases changed the human landscape almost overnight, as did gold rushes, industrialization, two wo...
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In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds - Native and newcomer, privileged and laboring, white and non-white - negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belon...
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Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War (Studies in Canadian Military History)
מאת Amy J. Shaw
The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those ...
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Pension plan members should have a determining voice in overcoming the conflicts of interest that currently hamper pension plans' ability to improve the environmental, social, and governance performance of the corporations in which they are invested. This book demonstrates that there are no insurmou...
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Home Is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land (Nature, History, Society Series)
מאת Hans M. Carlson
The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. The ensuing years have brought immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of hydroelectrici...
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Social security programs helped to define Canada in the twentieth century and, for the generation that came of age during the Cold War, family allowances more than any other social program embodied the new national ideal. But was this program, which gave all mothers a monthly stipend to raise the na...
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Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery: Information and Resource Guide (Au Press)
מאת Virginia, Ph.D. Vandall-Walker
Now in its third revised edition, "Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery" is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada.Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners, this invaluable guide includes chapters on preparing for p...
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Drawing from an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, John Lutz traces Aboriginal people's involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s. He argues that the roo...
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From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this memoir in the 1980s.In an uncompromising, straightforward style, K...
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When the Second World War began, Canada had no foreign intelligence capacity. Its political leaders had concluded that a clandestine service was not necessary to meet the nation's intelligence requirements. Yet Kurt F. Jensen argues that the country was a more active intelligence partner in the wart...
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At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco De La Bodega Y Quadra
מאת Freeman M. Tovell
Capitan de Navio Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic resolu...
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At the height of Pacific-coast steamship travel in the late 1800s and early 1900s, passengers enjoyed a dinner served on china with silver flatware. Today, the only places you can still find this china is at flea markets and antique shops or by diving at dock sites and shipwrecks.
Pacific Coa... |
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Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66
מאת Shirley Tillotson
"Contributing Citizens" tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today's United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state. Peopled by a host of forceful...
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A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of "Indian" and "White" societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River, but also with the Nootkans of the outer ...
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During the past thirty years, international trade agreements have focused increasingly on areas of provincial jurisdiction. In The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy, Kukucha argues that Canadian provinces have maintained a level of autonomy in response to these developments, sometim...
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