States of Nature
Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
This multi-award-winning book is one of the first to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots.
Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec
A comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites, both English and French, during the Second World War.
With Good Intentions
Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
Examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940
Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples.
Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46
Detailing the day-to-day affairs of Germans civilians and POWs in Canadian internment camps camps during the Second World War, this book fills an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front.
Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal
In this illuminating history of Montreal, readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers.
Our Box Was Full
An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs
Daly explores the central meaning of the notion of land in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997.
Hometown Horizons
Local Responses to Canada's Great War
Alive with personal stories, this book considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War.
First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts
This book demonstrates how and why courts have failed to fairly treat First Nations sacred sites, which are under increasing threat worldwide due to state appropriation and insatiable demands on natural resources.
The Heiress vs the Establishment
Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice
A rare first-person account of Canada’s early twentieth century legal system, this books retells the Mrs. Campbell fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment to claim her mother’s estate.
Imagining Difference
Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town
An ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC, a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort.
From UI to EI
Waging War on the Welfare State
From UI to EI examines the history of Canada’s unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed.
CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan
Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, and Fur Sharks
An elegantly written history that documents the colonial relationship between the CCF and the Saskatchewan north.
Selling British Columbia
Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
An entertaining and illustrated account of the development of BC's tourist industry between 1890 and 1970, examining how BC’s history of colonialism was deftly marketed to potential tourists.
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Illustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
Negotiated Memory
Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.
When Coal Was King
Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island
The first scholarly history of the Ladysmith miners, the Great Strike of 1912-1914, and the coalmining industry on Vancouver Island.
The Oriental Question
Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.
Parties Long Estranged
Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century
A comparative collection of essays that examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations throughout the twentieth century.
Game in the Garden
A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
Women and the White Man's God
Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women’s roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. Few women’s diaries have survived from that time, and Barrett Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white settlement.
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80
The Pursuit of Identity and Power
Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.
Telling Tales
Essays in Western Women's History
Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.
The Canadian Department of Justice and the Completion of Confederation 1867-78
Drawing on legal records and other archival documents, Jonathan Swainger considers the growth and development of the ostensibly apolitical Department of Justice in the eleven years after the union of 1867.
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
This book is a reevaluation of the Canadian Corps and poison gas in WWI. It examines how the Canadian Corps organized and protected its soldiers from poison gas.
Once Upon an Oldman
Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.