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What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment?Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870- Offers a broad empirical analysis of how the work of children was integrated with the major economic and occupational changes of eighteenth- and ni...

Kahnawake on the shore of the St Laurence across from Montreal. The North Shore of Vancouver. The Bow River shoreline in downtown Calgary. Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. These are a few of the vantages from which Norman Ravvin looks beyond contemporary urban and rural landscapes to uncover past and once-possible Canadas, lost voices and vanished ways of living that are made recognizable once again. Through interviews, careful research and a good m...

News of a gold strike on the Klondike River in the Yukon sparked thousands of people from all over the world to head north. People quit their jobs. Men left their wives. Women ran away from their husbands. All set off on the great stampede.Writers, too, joined the rush for gold. Writers like Tappan Adney, Jack London, Rex Beach, Joaquin Miller and scores of others.From realism to romance, from true-life adventure to droll reminiscence, this cl...

Alberta Trade Book of the Year" Set in Little Cypress, a small prairie town in the 1950s, "A Fine Daughter" is the story of Fran and her illegitimate daughter, Cora. Together, on a journey toward love and acceptance, they learn to confront the strict morality that's made them outsiders.

Louie and Susan are excited about spending their first Passover in their mountain home. But without the right foods, they need to cook up a little Seder magic.

A chronicle of the province's geological history and the role scientists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum have played in telling the story.