Combining contemporary articles with historical documents, this engaging reader examines the rich history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples through a thematic lens.
The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.
This study focuses on one group of English immigrants sent to Upper Canada from Sussex and other southern counties with the aid of parishes and landlords.
Atlantic Canada: A History reflects on the region's diversity and provides students with a concise and up-to-date history of the east coast of Canada. This edition includes new coverage of Atlantic Canada up to 2014, allowing readers to make connections between the past and present and reflect on the region's diversity and future.
Provides an overview of the histories of the societies which made up the Atlantic Provinces.
Canada's First Nations uses an interdisciplinary approach--drawing on research in archaeology, anthropology, biology, sociology, political science, and history--to give an account of Canada's past.
A historical overview of the economic conditions and commerce of Canada.
Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present.
Helps students understand how events developed over time and includes the contribution of all who shaped Canada, including Aboriginals, immigrants, women, and minority groups.
Year-by-year chronicle of important events in Canadian history.
Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of the French Canadians involved in the fur economy, the Indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants.
This book presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern colonial and European needs; and transportation history in the case of the displacement of the canoe by the York boat.
Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife. It presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people.
Includes fourteen mini-biographies of remarkable Canadian women.
Includes mini-biographies of remarkable Canadian women.
This pre-Confederation reader encourages students to explore Canada's history through authentic primary documents and critical academic articles.
Lively, compact, and highly readable, this bestselling history offers a fascinating overview of the Canadian landscape and its people.
Informative text and photos focus on important historical events and figures from New France and the fur trade.
Morton presents the history of Canada as an absorbing narrative; he reflects on how the past informs the present by linking historical events to contemporary issues.
James Laxer brings to life two major contests that occur during this war: the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditional territories and the American campaign to settle its grievances with Britain through the conquest of Canada.
Your Country, My Country takes readers back to the seventeenth century, when a shared British colonial heritage set the two lands on paths that would remain intertwined to the present day. Tracing Canadian-American relations, shared values, and differences through the centuries, Bothwell suggests that Americans are neither unique nor exceptional, in terms of both their good characteristics and their bad ones.
