In business for ourselves

In Business for Ourselves is the first book of case studies to focus exclusively on small businesses in the Canadian north. Drawing from her research on a broad range of eco-nomic activities, Wanda Wuttunee profiles fifteen businesses operating successfully in northern Alberta, the Yukon, and the...

Boys and girls apart

This original book contributes significantly to an understanding of sexism by revealing a major arena for its formation - the play practices of children. This is the first sociological work to use children's drawings to make inferences about structured gender inequality. The author examines the s...

Money and banking in canada

This collection of original documents, contemporary commentaries and articles outlines the major developments in the history of money and banking in Canada.

Chief justice w.r. jackett

Wilbur Roy Jackett, born in a small town in Saskatchewan in 1914, is inextricably connected to some of the most important developments in Canadian legal history. As a scholar, public servant, and jurist, he was a leading figure in Canadian law, serving during the governments of Mackenzie King, St...

Victor and evie

The experiences of a governor general and his family in the early twentieth century, revealed through recently released letters and diaries.

On the job

Every day millions of Canadians go out to work. They labour in factories, offices, restaurants, and retail stores, on ships, and deep in mines. And every day millions of other Canadians, mostly women, begin work in their homes, performing the many tasks that ensure the well-being of their familie...

Marguerite bourgeoys et la congrégation de notre dame, 1665-1670

This sequel to the early biography charts the establishment of a radically innovative religious community of uncloistered women - the first in the New World.

Language, schooling, and cultural conflict

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF Bilingualism was at the heart of controversy in Ontario politics one hundred years ago when Anglophones burned effigies of Louis Riel and Francophones hanged flaming images of John A. Macdonald. Strong public reaction to Bill 8 made bilingualism one of the most pressing iss...

The anatomy of the brain and nerves

Is it possible to live this way? volume 2: hope

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.

Staging strangers

How theatre can help create ethical relationships among strangers in a divisive age.

Canadian foreign policy, 1955-1965

This volume documents the decade in which Canada's influence on world affairs was at its apex, and contains speeches and writings of Lester B. Pearson, Sydney Smith, Howard C. Green and Paul Martin.

Becoming holy in early canada

Uncovering the history of sanctity in everyday colonial life.

The uncomfortable pew

In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada’s largest Christian denominations, and the role that C...

Distributed algorithms on graphs

This volume contains papers presented at the First International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms. The papers present solutions to a wide spectrum of problems (leader election, resource allocation, routing, etc.) and focus on a variety of issues that influence communications complexity.

God’s province

A groundbreaking exploration of the religious roots of Alberta conservatism.

Statistical account of upper canada

This account was compiled originally in 1822 to promote an immigration scheme for Upper Canada, but its disclosures of backward development and governmental mismanagement made it the focal point of a violent controversy.

Embattled shadows

Embattled Shadows is the first and only history of Canadian film making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an entertaining account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, an...

What's the import?

Two conspicuous features of the radical transformation of literary studies over the past three decades have been the dominance of theory-based interpretative discourse and cultural studies contextualizations. Both have greatly energized literary studies - but they have done so at a cost.

Spaces and places for art

A pioneering study of art museums in western Canada and their relationship to federal cultural institutions.

The philosophy of nature

In this general summation of the theory Brian Ellis, at the forefront of developing the new essentialism, introduces students and generalists to an emerging metaphysical perspective that provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature.

These mysterious people, second edition

The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.

Applied research and evaluation in community mental health services

Groundbreaking essays on improving community mental health care.

Anxious allegiances

The early Canadian long poem has often been faulted for its lack of aesthetic integrity. Often described as little more than poorly "versified rhetoric," these works have never been submitted to rigorous rhetorical analysis. In Anxious Allegiances C.D. Mazoff investigates the rhetorical devices u...

Freedom and order

John clare and the bounds of circumstance

As a working-class poet, born in 1793 to an impovisherished family in rural England, John Clare has often been considered of interest for the unusual nature of his life and career rather than for his poetry. In this book, Johanne Clare argues that he should be taken seriously both as a poet and a...

Planets, potions, and parchments

Planets, Potions, and Parchments is a heavily illustrated and informative catalogue published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the same name. The exhibition, presented by the Jewish Public Library, runs from May to September at the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. Both catalogue and ...

Bullets on the water

Civil wars in Africa, the collapse of the central regime in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf war in the Middle East, the collapse of the military regimes in Central America, new ethnic clashes in the former USSR - all these events have resulted in an increased number of displaced peo...

All shook up

The first full-length study of natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union.

André malraux

More attention has been paid up to now to Malraux's life and thought than to his creativity. To respond to this neglect, David Bevan explores facets as diffuse as Tibetan symbolism, free indirect style, humour, film, death, and oratory in a series of interconnecting essays which, offering a certa...

The republic of games

An exploration of the consequences of introducing game mechanics to digital platforms for the production and circulation of texts.

Contemporary majority nationalism

For many years nationalism has been associated with political demands by minority nations that challenge the rights of the central state. However, over the last two decades many works have challenged this perspective, arguing that nationalism - as a political phenomenon - is likely to emerge amon...

Boys in the pits

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's indus...

The crisis of quebec, 1914-1918

The Crisis of Quebec was first published in 1937 and remains the most vivid and comprehensive study of the conscription crisis of 1917.

All the difference

All the Difference is the story of one man's work in the vast international effort since World War II to raise standards of living in less developed countries; an effort in which all member countries of the United Nations have to some extent been involved. In the opening chapter Benjamin Higgins ...

A singular case

A study of a time when Europeans sought to learn from China’s successful model of political economy.

Psyche

A child who is the centre of her parents' life, is torn away in the darkness from her comfortable urban home and left to grow up in the barren hills of northern mining country. Over time, recognizing that she has outgrown the kindly but uneducated couple who raise her, she begins a relationship w...

Our ice is vanishing / sikuvut nunguliqtuq

A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.

Field guide to the lost flower of crete

A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances between European musical encounters and a northern working-clas...

Canadian idealism and the philosophy of freedom

An intriguing work that considers the shared tradition of Canadian political philosophy.

William lyon mackenzie

This edition marks the first appearance of this controversial biography in its original form, seventy years after its completion.

Continental community?

Excessive expectations

In the first full-length economic history of pre-Confederation Nova Scotia, Julian Gwyn challenges the popular myth that the British colony prospered before it became a province of Canada. Through his discussion of three periods in Nova Scotia's development (1740-1815,1815-53, and 1853-70) and fo...

The bank of upper canada

The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a ...