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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War
Hardcover
Pamela Hickman
9781552778531
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Feb 21, 2012
This book is an illustrated history of the wartime internment of Japanese Canadian residents of British Columbia. At the time when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese Canadians numbered well over 20,000. From the first arrivals in the late nineteenth century, they had taken up work in many parts of BC, established communities, and become part of the Canadian society even though theyfaced racism and prejudice in many forms. With war came wartime hysteria. Japanese Canadian residents of BC were rounded up, their homes and property seized, and f...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville
An African Nova Scotian Community Is Demolished — and Fights Back
Hardcover
Gloria Ann Wesley
9781459413580
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Apr 30, 2019
The community of Africville was founded in the late 1800s when African Nova Scotians built homes on the Bedford Basin on the northern edge of Halifax. Africville grew to include a church, a school, and small businesses. At its peak, about 400 people lived there. The community was lively and vibrant, with a strong sense of culture and tradition. But the community had its problems. Racist attitudes prevented people from getting well-paying jobs in the city and the City of Halifax refused residents basic services such as running water, sewage disp...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis
Canada's Anti-Semitic Policies in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
Rona Arato
9781459415669
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Jan 19, 2021
Prior to the Second World War, Canada's Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler's Nazis were spreading hatred and violence towards Jews across Germany. At first, Jews were allowed to leave Germany and thousands escaped to save themselves and their families. Then countries around the world closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and childr...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War
Hardcover
Pamela Hickman
9781459400955
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Oct 10, 2012
Italians came to Canada to seek a better life. From the 1870s to the 1920s they arrived in large numbers and found work mainly in mining, railway building, forestry, construction and farming. As time passed, many used their skills to set up successful small businesses, often in Little Italy districts in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Winnipeg. Many struggled with the language and culture in Canada, but their children became part of the Canadian mix. But when Canada declared war on Italy on June 10, 1940, the government used t...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action
Hardcover
Melanie Florence
9781459408661
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Dec 21, 2015
Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada with the aim of assimilating First Nations people. In 1879, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald commissioned the "Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and ...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
Arlene Chan
9781459404434
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Oct 20, 2014
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada in the mid-1800s searching for gold and a better life. They found jobs in forestry, mining, and other resource industries. But life in Canada was difficult and the immigrants had to face racism and cultural barriers. Thousands were recruited to work building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Once the railway was finished, Canadian governments and many Canadians wanted the Chinese to go away. The government took measures to stop immigration from China to Canada. Starting in 1885, the government imposed...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Komagata Maru and Canada's Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
Pamela Hickman
9781459404373
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
May 09, 2014
In 1914, Canada was a very British society with anti-Asian attitudes. Although Great Britain had declared that all people from India were officially British citizens and could live anywhere in the British Commonwealth, Canada refused to accept them. This racist policy was challenged by Gurdit Singh, a Sikh businessman, who chartered a ship, the Komagata Maru, and sailed to Vancouver with over 300 fellow Indians wishing to immigrate to Canada. They were turned back, tragically. Over the years, the Canadian government gradually changed its immig...
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