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A must for students and chief executives alike." -Canadian Business Review"A major achievement of scholarship, the first study to describe Canadian business over five centuries." -Winnipeg Free Press"This book contains moments of priceless insight into the Canadian identity. It is the most surprising and possibly the most important book on Canadian history published this year." -Kingston Whig-Standard MagazineFirst published three decades ago,...

Political borders and personal boundaries, and therefore control over territory and one's very self, are not fixed.Territorial borders and personal boundaries are always contested and thus, to varying degrees, fluid."So writes Robert Brym in his introduction to this third volume of proceedings of the annual S.D. Clark Symposium. Contributors John Hannigan, Ronald J. Deibert and Louis W. Pauly, Klaus Dodds, Emily Gilbert, and Heather N. Nicol c...

Six Million Trees is an extraordinary memoir of what it's like to work as a tree planter, replanting the clear-cut forests of northern Ontario, Manitoba and the Maritimes. In equal parts bleak yet funny, and always brutally realistic, Six Million Trees follows the author and her companions as they battle blackflies, blizzards, and broken bones, through isolation, desperation, solidarity and healing. Derkowski first became a tree planter becaus...

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Emily Brontë: More Myself Than IEvery evening, flanked by her two creative sisters, Charlotte and Anne, Emily Brontë sits down at the dining-room table in the Haworth parsonage and writes. As she does so, her imagination compresses and transforms the information of the life-experience that surrounds her-in the parsonage and out on the moors-into the diamond-hard imagery of her novel-in-progress, Wuthering Heights. The Making of Emily Brontë: M...

A novel of the COVID-19 pandemic ...The onslaught of the coronavirus leads to the cancellation of a renowned quartet's planned performance of Schubert's Quintet in C. But the group continues to practice, in hopes of at least an eventual private performance, and in an effort to draw the musicians closer together and improve their music-making, Boris -- the group's founder and cellist -- asks each of them to keep and share diary entries, from wh...

Growing up in British Guiana in the 1930s and '40s ...In Demerara Sugar, author Pam Walters provides a child's-eye view of British Guiana -- the British Empire's only foothold on the South American continent -- that is by turns poignant, humorous and insightful. The sugar plantations of the Guianese region of Demerara were integral to the economy of the Empire. Expatriate English, Scots and Irish managed a plantation economy only possible with...

Is there a purpose for the extra "p" in "shopped"? Does the letter "e" in "prince" have a function? Is there a reason for spelling "muscle" with a silent letter "c"? Why are the letters "cc" in "accident" and "account" pronounced differently? Why does the letter "e" in "bake" disappear from "baking"?These are just a few of the mysteries of English spelling that Trevor Schindeler, a lifelong student of the English language, explores in this uni...

This compelling work of historical fiction focuses on two generations of a "railway family." The experiences of the Baldwin and Smith clans tie in with the early rivalry between the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways, and also with technological and operational changes in the whole railroad industry during and immediately after World War I.Railway Ties conveys a clear sense of a future-defining period in Canada. The years that saw the g...

Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets." -Oscar WildeImprobable Journeys is the remarkable story of a life lived in keeping with Wilde's precept-the life of physician and teacher Bernard Binns. As Binns' friend Tony Brown said after reading this memoir: "You have led a fantastically interesting life, with a geographical journey like no other-from the Falklands and Kerala, to Srinagar and Kashgar, Suez and Gibraltar, Worksop, London an...

Available together in a single volume for the first time are Canadian anthropologist Diamond Jenness' pioneering studies of three Athapaskan nations: the prairie-dwelling Tsuu T'ina of Alberta, and the Sekani and Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia's mountainous northern interior. Based on his wide-ranging interviews with elders in the 1920s, these richly detailed and sympathetic ethnographies comprise a valuable record of the histories and cultu...

Join author Mark Hunter Lavigne as he backpacks solo through Ontario's Algonquin Park in search of a campsite safely situated on high ground, drinking water that won't give him beaver fever, and-maybe, just maybe-the meaning of life!Along the way, Mark shares some hard-won advice grounded in his own experiences, including: Always try to build two benches with the same wood. Celebrate life's little moments so you're ready for the big ones. Avoi...

In Upper Canada it was the Anglican Tories alone who articulated a national vision for the province and who struggled to defend a traditional Church-State 'nation' in North America independent of the new United States. Had the Tories not acted on their beliefs, Upper Canada might well have succumbed to either conquest or absorption by the American republic, or have become thoroughly Americanized.In disparaging and denigrating the principles, b...

Good Enough from Here is a compelling work of creative nonfiction, an artifact of Canadiana, set in the real-life geographical and historical context of Canadian Forces Station (CFS) ALERT on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the late 1970s. Considered at the time Canada's most northerly permanently inhabited location, the small, orange civilization within the base perimeter serves as a stage for the interplay of relationships among comp...

Walter's day was off to a bad start ...Walter Stillwell, superintendent of the Port Talbot Water Resource Recovery Facility, was a methodical man. Each weekday he got up at 6:30 a.m., recorded his blood pressure and heart rate, and prepared his breakfast, carefully measuring out 15 millilitres of homemade dressing for his modest salad of leaf lettuce and baking a serving of protein-usually a pork chop or chicken breast-in the toaster oven. The...

An intriguing look at the causes and consequences of income equality ... S.D. Clark, the ­first chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, was one of Canada's leading sociologists in the middle years of the twentieth century. During the ­ first three decades of his career he analyzed the transformation of successive Canadian frontiers from socially disorganized settlements into organized societies. He then conducted re...

Robert Loraine (1876-1935) was a decorated war hero, an actor, and a surrogate son to Bernard Shaw. After triumphantly launching Shaw's masterpiece Man and Superman in America in the lead role of John Tanner, and creating roles in other plays by Shaw, Loraine suspended his acting career to serve as a pilot in World War I. After twice being seriously wounded, Loraine returned to acting in London and New York, achieving memorable successes punct...

What is the myth of the Wright brothers? Is it the fairy tale of 1903, when two human beings ignored their differences and created an invention that split human history into two eras: before and after the possibility of flight? Or is it the grim post-1903 reality, when each brother struggled alone, an ocean between them, to promote their new invention in the face of hostility, indifference, ridicule and disbelief? Or - are both harmony and dis...

In June 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, two part-time railway workers, 23-year-old Cyril Passfield and his friend, Charlie Thompson, decide to leave their hometown of St. Thomas, Ontario. They go "on the hobo, " joining the great army of the unemployed who are riding the trains back and forth across Canada. As they travel west, they hope to get work in the harvest or hop a freighter in Vancouver and see the world. This novel is ba...

Written over a period of half a century, these poems by Alan Bishop, professor emeritus in the English Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, explore a variety of themes, mainly inspired by experiences in three of the countries in which the poet has lived, studied and worked -- South Africa, England and Canada.