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  • The Regenerators

    Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

    by Ramsay Cook ...
    Series series Heritage
    A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. Their religious beliefs were challenged by the new biological sciences and by historical criticism of the Bible. Personal salvation, for centuries the central concern of Christianity, no longer seemed an adequate focus in an age that gave rise to industrial cities and grave social problems.No single word, Cook ... Read more

    S$ 43.26 SGD

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  • A Short History of Canada

    Sixth Edition

    by Desmond Morton ...
    Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history.Morton ... Read more

    S$ 24.84 SGD

  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    by Candace Savage ...
    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

    S$ 18.85 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark

    The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation

    by Mary Janigan ...
    The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate ... Read more

    S$ 23.86 SGD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear

    by Rudy Wiebe ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused ... Read more

    S$ 16.99 SGD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Emily Carr

    by Lewis Desoto ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside the remote Native villages of the West Coast forests. It is a lifetime journey of almost mythic ... Read more

    S$ 14.38 SGD

  • Strange Days

    Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade

    by Ted Ferguson ...
    The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada’s history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the ’20s — tales of serial killers, athletes, con men, crackpots, prime ministers, ... Read more

    S$ 13.61 SGD

  • Ignored but Not Forgotten

    Canada's English Immigrants

    by Lucille H. Campey ...
    Series Book 3 - The English In Canada
    The story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail.Ignored but Not Forgotten is a compelling and moving account of one of Canada’s foremost immigrant groups: the story of the great migration of English people to Canada that peaked during the early twentieth century. Based on wide-ranging documentary and statistical sources from both countries, it sets out the ... Read more

    S$ 12.09 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Canadian Battles

    Heroism and Courage Through the Years

    by Edward Humphreys ...
    Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day. Beginning with the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1609 and ending with the second Battle of Panjwaye in 2006 (part of the war in Afghanistan), Great Canadian Battles features conflicts in Canada and abroad.Author Edward Humphreys analyses the ... Read more

    S$ 2.75 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Yukon

    Life Between the Gold Rush and the Alaska Highway

    by Joanne Robertson ...
    Joann Robertson's grandfather moved to the Yukon in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with the North. Leaving their eldest two children in London, his wife joined him in 1899. They had six more children born in various settlements. The life the family lived and the work they did-telegraphy, dog-team mail delivery, teaching and working in the gold-mining ... Read more

    S$ 13.34 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    by Sarah Carter ...
    Series series The West Unbound
    Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that ... Read more

    S$ 34.87 SGD

  • Brown of the Globe

    Volume Two: Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at its most critical stage. This second volume traces the sectional conflict that brought political deadlock by 1864 and makes clear Brown’s vital ... Read more

    S$ 9.69 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus