A meech lake post-mortem

The contrasting results of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission and the Citizens' Forum on National Unity, headed by Keith Spicer, will reveal much about the fundamental incompatibilities and conflicts between Quebec's and English-Canada's perspectives on the future of the country. But the debates wil...

Maritime capital

In Maritime Capital, the long-awaited final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Eric Sager and Gerald Panting argue that the decline of the shipping industry was not, as has commonly been assumed, the inevitable result of the conversion from wood and sail to iron and steam.

Architecture in the family way

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health...

Beyond the divide

Beyond the Divide explores the mosques of Canada in their diversity, beauty, practicality, and versatility. Visiting ninety mosques across Canada to document the external and internal characteristics of each one, Gaber provides the first study to analyze these gendered spaces with architectural d...

How ottawa spends, 2009-2010

Early Harper budgets and the promises not kept in a beleaguered economy spiraling towards recession.

The canadian municipal system

Art, education, and cultural renewal

A call for solidarity and renewal in the arts and the academy.

Police officer

This insightful study provides a look at policing in Canada from the viewpoint of rank and file members of the police community. This revised edition of the landmark Policeman (1979) examines police officers as an occupational culture and the way they become socialized into this stressful and oft...

Social and environmental impacts of the james bay hydroelectric project

Planning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on bo...

The frog lake "massacre"

The congrégation de notre-dame, superiors, and the paradox of power, 1693-1796

Nuns have often been portrayed as nascent feminists wielding an exceptional amount of power. In this formative study of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame - a religious community of uncloistered women established in Montreal in 1657 - Colleen Gray presents a more nuanced view of the foundations and e...

Bilingual today, united tomorrow

Forty years after the creation of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow examines the responses of Canada's federal and provincial governments to the Commission's recommendations on education. In contrast to the many critics of official bilinguali...

John strachan

Expect miracles

David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...

Beyond tragedy and eternal peace

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. This book provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaph...

Tamarack & clearcut

Tamarack & Clearcut is the result of a collaboration between two artists of rare gifts. In it, a series of photographs of huge and original impact moves in tandem with a powerful sequence of imagist poems. As you savour these images, visual and poetic, you become increasingly sensitized to th...

Idea of the victorian church: a study of the church of england, 1833-1887

Not needing all the words

Reading selected texts by Michael Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how his writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets Ondaatje's work wi...

Limiting rights

Limiting Rights is an in-depth exploration of who is, and who should be, responsible for determining whether legislation that conflicts with the entrenched rights of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms should nevertheless be upheld as a reasonable limit on protected rights. Janet Hiebert addresses...

Sir francis bond head

The splendid vision

This history traces the ncwc's development and assesses the effectiveness of its many interventions in the political process over the past 100 years. The author shows that through the Council, women have dealt with virtually all the major social and political issues that have faced Canada.

Mcmaster university, volume 3: 1957-1987

A lively history of Canada's "Little Big U."

From peacekeeping to peacemaking

From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking provides the first extensive examination of Canada's response to the recent disintegration of the Federal State of Yugoslavia. Nicholas Gammer reflects on how Canadian foreign policy was made and on the role of the prime minister in this decisionmaking, showing th...

Innovation, science, environment 08/09

The third edition of an annual volume of commentary on Canadian innovation, science, and environment (ISE) policies and institutions.

Autonomy and schooling

Autonomy and Schooling provides a philosophically rigorous defence of a moderate version of child-centred education. Since Rousseau, child-centred education has been advocated on the grounds that the ideals of freedom and individual autonomy require it, though the relation between educational pol...

Eighteenth century newfoundland

Essays on the reconstruction of medieval history

Inside the historical film

An exploration of the power of cinema to enrich our understanding of the past.

Mourning nature

A pioneering work exploring the implications for politics, ethics, and praxis.

In good hands

In 1905 two Montreal women, Alice Peck and May Phillips, founded the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Inspired by British and American women in the arts and crafts movement, and spurred by their thirty-year rivalry with Mary Dignam of the Toronto-based Women's Art Association of Canada, these two crea...

Language in the mind

The work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics. But his theory of psychomechanics, which views language as systematic and semiotic, is not well known in the English-speaking world. Language in the Mind is the first detailed study of Guillaumian ling...

The cultivated landscape

By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to ...

E.j. pratt

Seafaring labour

Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor bec...

Charlie's first war

The personal appeal and price of late nineteenth-century warfare.

Daughters of aataentsic

Breaking new ground in both historical narratives and community-guided research in North America, Daughters of Aataentsic offers an alternative narrative by considering the ways in which individual Weⁿdat/Waⁿdat women resisted colonialism, preserved their culture, and acted as matriarchs.

Canada and the ukrainian question, 1939-1945

Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British, American, and Soviet archival material, he hig...

Eskimo of the canadian arctic

These essays, which extend in subject from Shamanism to Eskimo language, from the Eskimo economy to Eskimo art, continue to appeal to a wide range of readers.

Thinking about faith, volume 1: love

Why did the early Christians follow Jesus Christ? Why did they write books, have councils, celebrate the eucharist and other sacramental rites? Tibor Horvath proposes that love for Jesus Christ is at the origin of the Christian faith. In the first volume of a trilogy on Thinking about Faith, love...

The law and the press in canada

The adventures and sufferings of john r. jewitt, captive among the nootka, 1803-1805

Canadian public-sector financial management

A primer on managing public funds and a sophisticated presentation of how governments actually work.

Canada’s residential schools: the métis experience

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

Conflicted commitments

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.