Daily modernism

In contrast to autobiographies, which are intended for a public audience and can be read as a novel, diaries have traditionally been thought of as the private record of a person's life. In Daily Modernism Elizabeth Podnieks shows that the diary can and should be read as both autobiography and fic...

Canada before confederation

This classic study in modern historical geography reflects the changing regional character of that part of North America that was to become Canada. "A pioneering bench-mark for future researchers, recognized for its scholarly as well as its literary qualities." Journal of Historical Geography.

Franklin's passage

And harmony abound

Morley Calvert’s Suite from the Monteregian Hills is cherished by brass players globally and performed hundreds of times annually, making Calvert perhaps the most performed Canadian composer outside the country. And Harmony Abound is a fascinating picture of Calvert’s contribution to musical comp...

W. stanford reid

W. Stanford Reid's career affected both university and religious life in Canada during the post-war period. Donald MacLeod traces Reid's career in the university, first at McGill, where Reid was a history professor for twenty-four years as well as dean of residences, and then at the University of...

Inauspicious beginnings

Inauspicious Beginnings shows that at the end of the cold war many experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending con...

The history of emily montague

Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the relationships between the Québecois and their British con

The shapes of silence

The Shapes of Silence examines fiction, memoir, and autobiographical writing by marginalized women whose stories give voice to the gendered dimensions of colonial violence.

Process cinema

Exploring new and experimental practices with celluloid film in the digital age.

Ireland and the federal solution

The "Irish question" was so central to the discussion of the United Kingdom constitution that many of the federal schemes which were developed from 1870 to 1922 focused on resolving the problem of home rule for Ireland. John Kendle examines this key issue in depth and gives full attention to the ...

Is jesus your personal saviour?

To George Rawlyk Canadian evangelicalism has always been, and still is, more accommodating that its American counterpart. In Is Jesus Your Personal Saviour? he sets out to define the quintessential nature of evangelicalism in Canada in the 1990s and to distinguish it from the more extreme evangel...

The laughing people

The Laughing People recounts Serge Bouchard’s anthropological research in the 1970s in Ekuanitshit, documenting the Indigenous Innu people and illuminating how wide-scale injustice and cultural meaning manifest in individual terms. The book invites readers to take part in preserving Innu history,...

Ripping down half the trees

One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students are often afflicted by severe racism, poverty, addictions, and violence. Ripping down half the trees engages with these struggles, offering a catalogue...

The general

A retrospective that offers an inside look at two centuries of an important North American hospital.

An echo in the mountains

A candid new look at the career and legacy of one of Canada's most beloved poets.

Dismantling canada

A Liberal insider analyzes Stephen Harper’s drive to create a new Conservative Canada.

Mercenaries for the crimea

The rebellion of 1837 in upper canada

This volume presents a broad documentary coverage of the rebellions and material on areas of Upper Canada not directly threatened by them. A judicious reading should provide a sound knowledge of the uprisings.

The equal parent presumption

A child-focused approach to the "best interests of the child."

Arthur lismer, visionary art educator

An intellectual and professional biography of one of Canada's most prominent artists.

An accidental history of canada

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents have significant social, cultural and policy meaning, and reveal aspects of preca...

Market rules

Federalism is about dividing and sharing government, often in complex ways that involve some tasks being done jointly. Are federal systems capable of effective joint policy-making? Is this possible in the fast-moving context of globalization? In Market Rules Douglas Brown examines these questions...

Flax americana

How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America.

Liberal education, civic education, and the canadian regime

Reflections on the education some early Canadians thought necessary for citizenship, and contemporary threats to that education.

Beyond the border

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.

Minding the public purse

Janice MacKinnon became minister of Finance for the province of Saskatchewan in 1993, under NDP Premier Roy Romanow, just as the province became the first casualty of the debt and deficit crises that dominated both provincial and federal politics throughout the decade. Minding the Public Purse is...

The jewish oil magnates of galicia

The critical role of the Jews in the ninety-five-year boom and bust cycle of one of the earliest oil industries.

The church of notre dame in montreal

In the extensive new preface, Toker examines the approach he took in writing The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal and reflects on the implications of what has been discovered since the book was first published in 1970.

The development of postwar canadian trade policy

B.W. Muirhead traces the development of Canadian trade policy and trade patterns from the Second World War to the election of the Diefenbaker government in 1957. Scholars have emphasized the importance of this period in determining Canadian trade patterns, but have disagreed about the options Can...

A fur trader's photographs

A Fur Trader's Photographs presents the most significant images from a previously unresearched collection of early twentieth-century photographs. The photographer, A.A. Chesterfield, spent most of his working life in Montreal as a professional photographer, a field in which he achieved a national...

Robert edwards holloway

At the young age of twenty-four Robert Edwards Holloway, a British schoolmaster, became principal of the Wesleyan Academy in St John's. During his thirty-year tenure he dramatically changed the direction of the school that later became the Methodist College. Ruby Gough's biography of Holloway and...

Economic background of dominion-provincial relations

Nights in fairyland

Drawing on a singular complete collection of Broadway Brevities issues discovered over decades of research, Nights in Fairyland is a rich account of a virtually unknown form of periodical publishing, urban nightlife, queer sociability, and the commodification of gossip in the 1920s and 1930s.

Kiviuq

How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source? Why are long multi-layered stories ess...

Direct intervention

Direct Intervention recounts the political and diplomatic relationship between Canada and France at a critical juncture in Canada's history. As a Minister in the Canadian Embassy in Paris, Eldon Black witnessed a range of fateful events - from visits (successful and unsuccessful) of ministers and...

Dmitri shostakovich, pianist

Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed exami...

A rabbi talks with jesus, revised edition

Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. After hearing it, would you abandon your religious beliefs and ideology to follow him, or would you hold on to your own beliefs and walk away? In A Rabbi Talks with Jesus Jacob Neu...

Into the house of old

Spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s "Into the House of Old" details the lives and survival strategies of elderly people as they struggle to remain independent. Megan Davies opens the door to the institutional world of the old age home, demonstrating how the legacy of the poor law and ...

A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder

With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.

To give one’s life for the work of another

This volume presents spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of Father Luigi Giussani’s addresses. To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the ...

Sacred as secular

Debates about Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and 9/11. At the heart of these assumptions is Muslim exceptionalism: the idea that Muslims think and behave differently from other faith communities. This book debunks this ...

U-boats against canada

The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range s...

Third solitudes

Caught in a solitude that is neither English nor French, Jewish-Canadian writers wrestle with marginality and exile as they search for status and recognition in Canadian society. Using the strategies for understanding marginality developed by such post-structuralist writers as Harold Bloom and Ja...

Québec

Une collection d'écrits concernant un tableau qui représente plus de quatre siècles d'histoire du Québec