Il y a des siecles que les soldats canadiens servent honorablement leur pays. Il est toutefois arrive que leur conduite ait ete tout sauf honorable! Que ce soit en desobeissant aux ordres, en terrorisant la population locale ou en commettant divers crimes, certains soldats se sont comportes aux antipodes de ce qu'est une conduite appropriee pour un militaire. De la guerre de 1812 jusqu'aux sombres lendemains de la Premiere Guerre mondiale, Les Apathiques et les rebelles illustre avec eloquence q...
Protest and Politics
The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, popular social movements are challenging the status quo. Yet most democracies are seeing a decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this shift in political participation, as well as the blurring of social movements and mainstream politics, through the lens of the social movement society thesis. Analyzing historical and contemporary social movements in Canada in comparison to those in the US and in the transnationa...
An insightful analysis of the cultural transformation of French-Canadian immigrants to the United States into Franco-Americans
Short-listed for the 2011 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing Josephine Mildred Curl Penny grew up in Labrador during the 1940s and 1950s. Like many Metis, she and her family lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving inside to the primitive settlement of Roaches Brook each fall to hunt and trap, and outside to Spotted Islands in the spring to harvest the rich fishing grounds. Sent away to hospital at age four, to boarding school when she was seven, and forced out to work at a...
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada Volume 16
by Francis Parkman
Considered North America's most "European" city, Montr al is known for its culture, sophisticated population, and its amazing architectural history. This addition to the hugely popular Then and Now series takes readers to Qu bec's charming capital city, Montr al, for an amazing past and present tour. A rich historical overview written by Alan Hustak (a journalist for the Montr al Gazette), it describes Montr al's development from a fur trading outpost on the banks of the St. Lawrence River to it...
Our Chiefs and Elders (School of American Research Advanced)
by David Neel
This series of portraits of British Columbia Native chiefs and elders counters earlier depictions of "noble savages" or representatives of a "vanishing race". David Neel's photographs and conversations with his own people introduce us to a group of individuals who know who they are and whose comments on the present, coupled with their perspectives from the past, reveal a people who have a rich and unique heritage while fully realizing that they are living in the latter part of the 20th century....
History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley (Heritage Classic)
by U J Jones
George Stephen Jones's diary chronicles his romance with Honorine Tanswell. The two youths fell in love in the fall of 1845 and the diary traces in touching detail the course of George's love for Honorine, her answering love, her parents' opposition to the match, and Honorine's accesptance of their dictates. Peter Ward, who has been researching the history of courtship and marriage in Canada for many years, sets this tender love story in context in his introduction. As he details, the diary incl...
Lambert's Travels Through Canada Vol. 2 (Travel in America)
by John Lambert
The Commercial Agency System of the United States and Canada Exposed
by Thomas Francis Meagher
Pioneer Priests of North America, 1642-1710, Volume 1
by Thomas Joseph Campbell
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume completes his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world. The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity, begins at home. To this end Professor Stacey emphasizes how changing social, economic, and political conditions within Canada have dictated her reactions to external problems. Volume II begins with the...