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  • Early Life in Upper Canada

    by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally published in 1933, is by far the finest history yet compiled, and it is now being reprinted in order ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Select Documents in Canadian Economic History 1783-1885

    Edited by Arthur Lower, Harold A. Innis ...
    Series series Heritage
    This second volume of economic documents resumes the story of the development of Canada as told by contemporary sources. Newspaper accounts of economic forces and factors, contemporary writings by statesmen and business men, poems depicting current situations, official documents—all have been included. The volume divides the period into two eras, 1783-1850 and 1850-85. The basis of classification ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Canadian Agricultural Policy

    The Historical Pattern

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always been secondary in shaping agricultural policy. Government attitudes have been influenced less by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • History of Agriculture in Ontario 1613-1880

    by Robert Jones ...
    Series series Heritage
    This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Monopolies and Patents

    A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly

    by Harold G. Fox ...
    Series series Heritage
    Harold G. Fox is a native of Toronto and a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Law School of Osgoode Hall. For some years he practised patent and trade mark law as a member of the firm of Fetherstonhaugh & Fox. In the nineteen-twenties he was invited to take over the management of the Canadian zipper industry and, since that time, has devoted his main energies to the development of that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Church and Sect in Canada

    Third Edition

    by S.D. Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society. It is one of three studies by Professor Clark; the other two, The Social Development of Canada and Movements of Political Protest in Canada show how the opening up of new areas of development in Canadian society led to ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Constitutional Amendment in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    On one of the most important and controversial matters in Canada—the drafting of an amending clause to the British North America Act. A forceful, lucid discussion of past amendments, conflicting views, and a possible solution. This book won the Grand Prize of the Province of Quebec for Moral and Political Science in 1950. Canadian Government Series. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada

    Second Edition

    Series series Heritage
    The history of woman suffrage in Canada has been largely ignored in the standard accounts of our past and has attracted little attention–at least until recently–from research students. The major exception is Catherine Cleverdon's study. Written nearly a quarter of a century ago, it remains the authoritative, indeed the only complete account of the suffragist struggle which took place here.Women ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Next-Year Country

    A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta

    by Jean Burnet ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how farming practices, ways of living, and modes of tenure brought into the area from more humid regions proved ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • University College

    A Portrait, 1853-1953

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    For a century University College has had a profound and continuous influence on the cultural development of Canada. The authors of this volume show us University College as a political and educational institution; as a physical structure that has aroused admiration and scholarly curiosity; as the home of a long line of great teachers and scholars, and of a student body diverse in its origins and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sir Edmund Head

    A Scholarly Governor

    by Donald Kerr ...
    Series series Heritage
    A century ago, in 1854, Sir Edmund Head became governor general of Canada. His earlier career as Oxford don, chief Poor Law commissioner during the "hungry forties," and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, had prepared him to succeed Lord Elgin in this senior post in the British colonial service. Combining the outlook and training of a scholar with a long administrative experience in difficult ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Colonial Office and Canada 1867-1887

    by David Farr ...
    Series series Heritage
    The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Life and Labour in Newfoundland

    Based on Lectures delivered at the Memorial University of Newfoundland

    by Charles Fay ...
    Series series Heritage
    This study of Newfoundland is a brilliant combination of first-hand observation, and of research into fascinating source materials. Professor Fay made tours of Newfoundland and of Labrador and examined documentary material in London and the West Country. Both his observations and his source-material are fresh and stimulating, and he writes in his usual lively provocative style.Professor Fay ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Pioneer Public Service

    An Administrative History of the United Canadas, 1841-1867

    by John Hodgetts ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book makes a new approach to Canadian politics, from the administrative side. It provides, first, a description of the evolution and structure of the administrative machine which, with few fundamental changes, still serves the Canadian nation, and in the process it attempts to acknowledge and appraise the hitherto unsung contributions of the public servant to the welfare of a pioneer ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Baptists in Upper and Lower Canada before 1820

    Series series Heritage
    To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower Canada—Loyalists, "late" Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekers—living in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary associations in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York State sent missionary preachers in the decade after 1800. Numerous small churches were established, but the War of 1812 disturbed these efforts, and much ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Land of Choice

    The Hungarians in Canada

    by John Kosa ...
    Series series Heritage
    Written by a Hungarian scholar who himself passed through the vicissitudes of migration and assimilation, this timely study of the movement of Hungarians into Canada has a special value. The author, a graduate of the University of Budapest, taught social history and sociology at the universities of Budapest and Szeged, and had already written considerably on the specific sociological problems he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Our Living Tradition

    First Series

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs. Frank H. Underhill, historian, describes the tragic career of Edward Blake, one of the ablest men who ever entered Canadian politics. D.G. Creighton, author of the definitive biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, writes of this politician whose solid ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The National Policy and the Wheat Economy

    by Vernon Fowke ...
    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems. This important study in political economy is organized into four ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Indians of Quetico

    Series series Heritage
    A fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants for their food, their clothing, and their dwellings, and they realized that it was in their best interest to protect these things, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Valley of the Trent

    Edited by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Trent system of lakes, rivers, and canals occupies a considerable part of the counties of Hastings, Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, Haliburton, and Victoria, in the province of Ontario. This volume of documents, records, and early writings covers the discovery and settlement of the valley, development and decline of the lumber trade, the Trent Canal and community life, and is abundantly ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Customs Administration in Canada

    by Gordon Blake ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly. This study is an attempt to improve the view. It traces the administration of the tariff through Canadian history, and provides the first complete treatment of the subject and its significance for the country's commerce.Dr. Blake's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Government of Nova Scotia

    Series series Heritage
    Here is a well-documented study of the structure, historical development, and present condition of the government of Nova Scotia. It deals with one of the oldest constitutions in Canada, one which was not created by statute but by the prerogative of the Crown.Nova Scotia has two major claims to priority in the history of Canadian politics: she was the first province to be granted representative ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Edward Blake, Irish Nationalist

    A Canadian Statesman in Irish Politics 1892-1907

    Series series Heritage
    In 1892, Edward Blake, ex-Premier of Ontario and former leader of the Liberal party in the Canadian House of Common, was invited by the Irish parliamentary party to stand for election in the British Parliament. This surprising invitation grew out of the conflicts of the Irish “Home Rule” controversy, then a critical issue in British politics. When Blake abandoned the Canadian political scene he ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Harold Adams Innis

    Portrait of a Scholar

    Series series Heritage
    Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some ... Read more

    $22.99 USD