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Gold, Grit, Guns

Gold, Grit, Guns

Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858
by Alexander Globe
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The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand.

"An extraordinary book." - The Tyee

Only four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners' actual words providing an engaging authenticity and bringing the miners' distinc …

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The York Factory Express

The York Factory Express

by Nancy Marguerite Anderson
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Every March between 1826 and 1854, the York Factory Express began its journey from the Hudson's Bay Company's headquarters on the Pacific Ocean, where the express-men paddled their boats up the Columbia River to the base of the Rocky Mountains at Boat Encampment, a thousand miles to the east. At Jasper's House they were 3,000 feet above sea level. …

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Joseph William McKay

Joseph William McKay

A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia
by Greg N. Fraser
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Finalist, 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing

An intriguing look at the accomplishments and contradictions of Joseph William McKay, best known as the founder of Nanaimo, BC, and one of the most successful Métis men to rise through the ranks of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late nineteenth century.

When examining the history …

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Flourishing and Free

Flourishing and Free

More Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island
by Haley Healey
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An inspiring and eye-opening collection of true stories about sixteen women who blazed their own trails in life and contributed in a fundamental way to the history of Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands.

In this fascinating follow-up to On Their Own Terms, author Haley Healey chronicles the lives of a whole new crop of resilient, hard-worki …

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The Object's the Thing

The Object's the Thing

The Writings of Yorke Edwards, a Pioneer of Heritage Interpretation in Canada
by R. Yorke Edwards, edited by Richard Kool & Robert A. Cannings
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"To glimpse this diversity is to feel some of the meaning of being Canadian."?R. Yorke Edwards
R. Yorke Edwards was a pioneer in the field of heritage interpretation in Canada. First with BC Parks and then with the Canadian Wildlife Service, throughout the 1960s Edwards developed an approach to the interpretation of natural and cultural history wi …

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Uplift

Uplift

Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
by PearlAnn Reichwein & Karen Wall
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), environmental & land art, canadian, contemporary (1945-), prairie provinces (ab, mb, sk)

In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination. Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of culture and liberal democr …

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Deep and Sheltered Waters

Deep and Sheltered Waters

The History of Tod Inlet
by David R. Gray, foreword by Nancy J. Turner & Robert D. Turner
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This book brings to light the fascinating story of a community and place: Tod Inlet, near Victoria, BC. From the original inhabitants from the Tsartlip First Nation to the lost community of immigrant workers from China and India, from a company town to the development of parkland, the wealth of history in this rich area reflects much of the history …

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Railway Nation

Railway Nation

Tales of Canadian Pacific, the World's Greatest Travel System
by David Laurence Jones
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A riveting, visually engaging collection of vignettes highlighting the rich heritage of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made an indelible mark on the lives of Canadians. Most commonly associated with its iconic railway, at its height CP also ran hotels, steamships, and an airline, and had myriad involve …

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Queen of the Maple Leaf

Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
by Patrizia Gentile
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tagged : women's studies, discrimination & race relations, post-confederation (1867-), race & ethnic relations

As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, f …

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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
by Sarah Carter
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Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists – from Nellie McClung and Cora Hind to Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards – lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, the region that led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office.

 

In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, award-winning author Sarah Carter challenges the my …

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Making the Best of It

Making the Best of It

Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War
edited by Sarah Glassford & Amy J. Shaw
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tagged : world war ii, women's studies, post-confederation (1867-), atlantic provinces (nb, nl, ns, pe)

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders …

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No Place for the State

No Place for the State

The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill
edited by Christopher Dummitt & Christabelle Sethna
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), social policy, civil rights, lgbtq+

“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspect …

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The Bomb in the Wilderness

The Bomb in the Wilderness

Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
by John O'Brian
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What can photographs reveal about Canada’s nuclear footprint? The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is central to how we interpret and remember nuclear activities. The impact and global reach of Canada’s nuclear programs have been felt ever since the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. But do photographs alert viewers to nucle …

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Vancouver Exposed

Vancouver Exposed

Searching for the City's Hidden History
by Eve Lazarus
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Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)

As the author of such BC best-sellers as Cold Case Vancouver, Murder by Milkshake, and Sensational Vancouver, Eve Lazarus has become adept at combining her well-honed investigative skills with an abiding love for her adopted city. These qualities are on full display in her la …

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The Diary of Dukesang Wong

The Diary of Dukesang Wong

A Voice from Gold Mountain
edited by David McIlwraith, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe, by Dukesang Wong
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Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experienc …

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Firebird

Firebird

by Glen Huser
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Grade: 4 to 7
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Firebird explores a period in our history - one year in particular (1915-1916) - when a massive number of newcomers were deemed "enemy aliens," arrested and put into internment camps set up all across Canada. Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle's farmhouse burns down. Rescue …

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Megantic

Megantic

by Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, translated by W. Donald Wilson
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tagged : transportation, post-confederation (1867-), corruption & misconduct, disasters & disaster relief, environmental conservation & protection

Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada – July 6, 2013. On a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below and explodes, pulverizing the downtown area and killing forty-seven unsuspecting victims. The devastation, which leaves the people of Lac-Mégantic dazed and in mourning, is quickly the ob …

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Canada's Mechanized Infantry

Canada's Mechanized Infantry

The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012
by Peter Kasurak
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Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the largely ignored development of the infantry in the Canadian Army after the First World War. Although many modern studies of technology and war focus on tanks and armour, soldiers from the Second World War onward have discovered that success really depends on a combination of infantry, armour, and artiller …

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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Indigenous Education in Canada
edited by Sheila Carr-Stewart
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tagged : multicultural education, indigenous studies, philosophy & social aspects

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system s …

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Canada 1919

Canada 1919

A Nation Shaped by War
edited by Tim Cook & J.L. Granatstein
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With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the country’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Even as t …

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A Great Revolutionary Wave

A Great Revolutionary Wave

Women and the Vote in British Columbia
by Lara Campbell
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British Columbia is often overlooked in the national story of women’s struggle for political equality. This book rights that wrong. A Great Revolutionary Wave follows the propaganda campaigns undertaken by suffrage organizations and traces the role of working-class women in the fight for political equality. It demonstrates the connections between …

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Legacy of Trees

Legacy of Trees

Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver's Stanley Park
by Nina Shoroplova
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An engaging, informative, and visually stunning tour of the numerous native, introduced, and ornamental tree species found in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, combining a wealth of botanical knowledge with a fascinating social history of the city’s most celebrated landmark.

Measuring 405 hectares (1,001 acres) in the heart of downtown Vancouver, Stanle …

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Stagecoach North

Stagecoach North

A History of Barnard's Express
by Ken Mather
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An in-depth look at the origins and operations of a pioneering transportation company that moved people and goods across the province throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

At the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush, demand for an efficient transportation route to and from the goldfields was reaching a point of desperation. With a …

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Umingmak

Umingmak

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic
by Jake Ootes, foreword by James Wah-Shee
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Until 1967, the Northwest Territories was governed from Ottawa by appointees who rarely visited the land or peoples they controlled. As part of his drive to integrate and modernize the country, Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson ordered Stuart Hodgson, a feisty British Columbia labour leader and founding member of the NDP, to move a fledglin …

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On Their Own Terms

On Their Own Terms

True Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island
by Haley Healey
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"An engaging contribution to Canadian women's history." —BC Books for BC Schools

A fascinating collection of concise stories about seventeen courageous, independent, and diverse women who shaped the history of Vancouver Island.

From the lush rainforest of Clayoquot Sound to the bustling city streets of Victoria, Vancouver Island has been home to an …

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The Final Voyage of the Valencia

The Final Voyage of the Valencia

by Michael C. Neitzel
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A dynamic retelling of the deadly 1906 sinking of the SS Valencia off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, one of the worst maritime disasters in Canadian history.

There are few places on earth that have such a high record of marine casualties as the short yet treacherous stretch of coastline known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. In the late ni …

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Robert Service

Robert Service

The True Adventures of Yukon’s Favourite Bard
by Elle Andra-Warner
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"Andra-Warner has given us a great read with this slim biography. Her story-telling skills excel at distilling historical facts into compelling narrative."—Thunder Bay Chronicle-Review

A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service.

Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert William Service was rai …

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Duty to Dissent

Duty to Dissent

Henri Bourassa and the First World War
by Geoff Keelan
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During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le …

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In the Spirit of ’68

In the Spirit of ’68

Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia
by Joel Belliveau
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The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets of Moncton, demanding further concessions.

 

What provoked these students to spark a cultural revolution on par with those overtaking …

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Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Charting Colonial Trajectories
edited by Rita Dhamoon; Davina Bhandar; Renisa Mawani & Satwinder Kaur Bains
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In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voy …

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Resolve

Resolve

The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community’s Will to Heal
by Carolyn Parks Mintz, with Andy Chelsea & Phyllis Chelsea
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Andy and Phyllis Chelsea met during their years spent at the St. Joseph’s Mission School in Williams Lake, BC. Like the thousands of others forced into the church-run residential school system, Andy and Phyllis are no strangers to the ongoing difficulties experienced by most Indigenous peoples in Canada. The couple married in 1964 but brought the …

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Canada on the United Nations Security Council

Canada on the United Nations Security Council

A Small Power on a Large Stage
by Adam Chapnick
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As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa’s attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians – and international observers – shocked and disappointed. Canada on the United Nations Security Council tells the story of t …

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