Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
- Copyright year: 2008
Contributing Citizens
Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66
A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.
- Copyright year: 2008
Contradictory Impulses
Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century
Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.
- Copyright year: 2008
Cautious Beginnings
Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51
A convincing portrait of Canada's active role in Second World War intelligence gathering.
- Copyright year: 2008
Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.
- Copyright year: 2008
Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War
The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Grand Experiment
Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
- Copyright year: 2008
The (Un)Making of the Modern Family
- Copyright year: 2008
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
- Copyright year: 2008
For Future Generations
Reconciling Gitxsan and Canadian Law
Dawn Mills passionately shows how reconciliation can be achieved between Canada’s First Nations and the various levels of government.
- Copyright year: 2008
Quebec
A Historical Geography
- Copyright year: 2008
Canada’s Rights Revolution
Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82
In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Reluctant Land
Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
- Copyright year: 2008
Captain Alex MacLean
Jack London's Sea Wolf
Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
- Copyright year: 2008
At the Far Reaches of Empire
The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
The most complete study of Bodega and his epoch yet written, At the Far Reaches of Empire is an absorbing narrative of eighteenth-century empire building.
- Copyright year: 2008
Voices Raised in Protest
Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
- Copyright year: 2008
Uprooted
The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada in the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about?
- Copyright year: 2008
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
- Copyright year: 2008
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
- Copyright year: 2007
Domestic Reforms
Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940
- Copyright year: 2007
Creating a Modern Countryside
Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
- Copyright year: 2007
Working Girls in the West
Representations of Wage-Earning Women
Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.
- Copyright year: 2008
An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies.”
- Copyright year: 2007
New Histories for Old
Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts
The collection combines essays by prominent senior historians, geographers, and anthropologists with contributions by new voices in these fields, to shed new light on the history of scholarship on Canada’s Aboriginal past.
- Copyright year: 2007
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
- Copyright year: 2007
Creating Postwar Canada
Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75
- Copyright year: 2007
First Nations of British Columbia, Second Edition, The
An Anthropological Survey
A concise and accessible overview of First Nations cultures and issues in the province, this book familiarizes readers with the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations to provide a context for contemporary concerns and initiatives.
- Copyright year: 2006
Hunting for Empire
Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert’s Land.
- Copyright year: 2007
Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
This collection of correspondence – letters sent to Hudson's Bay Company men by their families and loved ones but never delivered – offers a rare and human history of ordinary people, many of whom were the early settlers of the Pacific Northwest.
- Copyright year: 2002
Tammarniit (Mistakes)
Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
- Copyright year: 1994
Strangers in Blood
Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country
The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.
- Copyright year: 1980
Gunboat Frontier
British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890
Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority.
- Copyright year: 1984
From Maps to Metaphors
The Pacific World of George Vancouver
Now available in paperback for the first time, From Maps to Metaphors, the classic on Vancouver's voyage, illuminates the European and Native experience of the “discovery” of the Pacific coast.
- Copyright year: 1993
Beyond the City Limits
Rural History in British Columbia
This wide-ranging collection draws together a distinguished group of contributors to discuss Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists.
- Copyright year: 1998
Kiumajut (Talking Back)
Game Management and Inuit Rights, 1900-70
Examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on regulating Inuit based on government animal counting methods, and the emerging regime of government intervention.
- Copyright year: 2007
Cree Narrative Memory
From Treaties to Contemporary Times
Drawing upon the narrative memory of his family from the James Smith and Sandy Lake reserves in Saskatchewan, Neal McLeod gives a narrative history of the determination and adaptability of Plains Cree.
- Copyright year: 2007