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Company Towns: Corporate Order and Community by Neil White Publisher Comments Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover 
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Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru: An Illustrated History by Ali Kazimi Synopsis In May 1914, the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 immigrants from British India, was turned away when it tried to land in Vancouver harbour. Many of the men on board, veterans of the British Indian Army, believed it was their right to settle anywhere... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Mrs. Mike by Nancy Freedman Publisher Comments A classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide, Mrs. Mike brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and masterfully evokes the tender, touching moments that bring a man and a woman together forever. Recently... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Brunswick Military Heritage #19: A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812 by Robert L. Dallison Publisher Comments When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Peggy Brock Publisher Comments First-hand accounts of indigenous peoples encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years and two thousand pages is unparalleled. Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Arthur Wellington Clahs diaries, Peggy Brock... (read more) Your price: $34.25 New - Trade Paper
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Best Tales of the Yukon: Including the Classic "Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W Service Synopsis "In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the f"... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge by Eric Jamieson Publisher Comments Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Great & Noble Scheme the Tragic Story by John Mack Faragher Publisher Comments ON AUGUST 25, 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been our secret Enemies. ...If we Effect... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Short History of Quebec (4TH 08 Edition) by John A. Dickinson Synopsis John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Norad and the Soviet Nuclear Threat: Canada's Secret Electronic Air War by Gordon A. A. Wilson Publisher Comments NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the Canadian air defence of North America during the Cold War. Author Gordon Wilson takes readers inside the top-secret world of the Air Weapons Controllers Underground Complex and the fighter... (read more) Your price: $28.99 New - Trade Paper
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Unbuilt Victoria by Dorothy Mindenhall Publisher Comments For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. For its first 50 years the settlement flourished as the capital of the province. A smallpox epidemic in the 1890s closed... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $25.73 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Raincoast Chronicles 21: West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales by Rick James Publisher Comments In this special edition of Raincoast Chronicles, maritime historian Rick James takes the reader on an authoritative and well-illustrated tour of the most fascinating of BC's shipwrecks. As well as reliving high-seas adventures, we learn the stories... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Nature of Gold by Kathryn Taylor Morse Publisher Comments In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and... (read more) Your price: $45.50 New - Hardcover
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Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent by Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. Publisher Comments Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted montain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy by Richmond P Hobson Publisher Comments A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hpws #4: Business and Industry: History of the Prairie West #4 by Gregory P. (edt) Marchildon Publisher Comments The fourth book in the series contains a broad range of scholarly articles regarding the history of business on the Canadian Plains.... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover
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Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers by Mark Cronlund Anderson Publisher Comments Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English- language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert's Land, the signing of... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Unbuilt Victoria by Dorothy Mindenhall Publisher Comments For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. For its first 50 years the settlement flourished as the capital of the province. A smallpox epidemic in the 1890s closed... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $13.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Equal Rights: The Jesuits' Estates Act Controversy by J. R. Miller Publisher Comments In the long history of conflict between French and English Canadians, one incident-the controversy over the Jesuits' Estates Act of 1888-has largely been ignored. Yet the agitation occasioned by the Quebec statute compensating the Society of Jesus for... (read more) Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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National Identity and the Conflict at Oka by Amelia Kalant Publisher Comments Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the... (read more) List Price $143.00 Your price: $137.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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