Trail of Story, Travellers’ Path
Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
A sensitive examination of meanings of landscape, this book draws on the author’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples in western Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
A Woman of Valour
The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
The biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle tells of a young Canadian woman of humble background who, at the turn of the 20th century, discovers love with the priest of her village.
- Copyright year: 2010
Veterans with a Vision
Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War
Illuminates the challenges faced by Canada’s war-blinded veterans and outlines the history of the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded, an advocacy group for all Canadian veterans and blind citizens.
- Copyright year: 2010
The British Columbia Court of Appeal
The First Hundred Years
An authoritative history of British Columbia’s highest court.
- Copyright year: 2010
One of the Family
Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan
Employs a sophisticated theoretical framework and diverse sources to trace the birth and growth of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Hero and the Historians
Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier
This unique exploration of commemoration and memory traces Jacque Cartier’s evolving image over five centuries to show how changing notions of the past have shaped identity formation and nationalism in English- and French-speaking Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
Urbanizing Frontiers
Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
This book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities – Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.
- Copyright year: 2009
Pearson's Peacekeepers
Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67
Pearson’s Peacekeepers describes Canada’s role in the first peacekeeping effort mounted by the UN and uncovers realities, and challenges, that lie beneath the myth of Canada’s peacekeeping mission.
- Copyright year: 2009
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Scott explores the history of Nightwood Theatre, the longest-running and most influential women's theatre company in Canada, a provider of opportunities for women theatre artists.
- Copyright year: 2009
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 reveals the complex web of influences that shaped Canada’s relationship with Africa and its involvement in UN peacekeeping.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Politics of Procurement
Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter
A history of failed attempts to replace the Sea King maritime helicopter reveals the political nature and shortcomings of the Canadian defence procurement process.
- Copyright year: 2009
Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change.
- Copyright year: 2010
A Very Capable Life
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
- Copyright year: 2009
The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
The Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.
- Copyright year: 2009
Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.
- Copyright year: 2009
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
- Copyright year: 2009
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal
This feminist analysis of union renewal strategies suggests that equity is the way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers’ lives.
- Copyright year: 2009
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
This third edition of a classic brings readers up to date on treaty negotiations in British Columbia and is a valuable resource for those interested in the treaty process both in BC and Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Fire and the Full Moon
Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World
Fire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada’s postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada’s response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.
- Copyright year: 2009