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Cracked
How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
Paperback
Joan M. Roberts
9781459731721
$26.99
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dec 19, 2015
2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights. In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s largest corporation. It employed thousands of people, including a large number of women who worked as operators and endured very poor pay and working conditions. Joan Roberts, a former operator, tells the story of how she and a group of dedicated labour organizers helped t...
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Great Western Railway of Canada
Southern Ontario’s Pioneer Railway
Paperback
David R.P. Guay
9781459732827
$22.99
TRANSPORTATION
Dec 05, 2015
A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway. This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada’s greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853–1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system. Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway aficionados. But it was truly a railway ahead of its time. It was a pioneer in combining land- and water-based transportation, including the intro...
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Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
Hardcover
David F. Pelly
9781459729896
$35.00
HISTORY
Jan 23, 2016
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. Since the 1980s, Arctic writer and researcher David F. Pelly has been exploring this region on foot and by sea-kayak, and with Inuit friends, while...
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Series: Battle Story
Isandlwana 1879
Paperback
Edmund Yorke
9781459734142
$14.99
HISTORY
Jan 23, 2016
The first major encounter between the British Army and Zulu Kingdom, and one of Britain’s greatest military disasters. On January 22, 1879, a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces. The engagement saw primitive weapons of spears and shields clashing with the latest military technology. However, despite being poorly equipped, the numerically superior Zulu force crushed the British troops, killing 1,300 men, while only losing 1,000 of their own warriors. It was a humiliating defeat for the British Army, which had been...
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Series: Battle Story
Iwo Jima 1945
Paperback
Andrew Rawson
9781459734050
$14.99
HISTORY
Jan 23, 2016
One of the bloodiest battles of the war in the Pacific. Operation Detachment, the invasion of Iwo Jima, on February 19, 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil, and it resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign. United States Marines supported by the U.S. Navy and Air Force fought the Japanese both over and underground on the island of volcanic ash, in a battle which was immortalized by the raising of the Stars and Stripes above Mount Suribachi. It was a battle that the Japanese could not win, but they were determi...
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A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War
The SOE and the Canadian Connection
Paperback
Colonel Bernd Horn
9781459732797
$19.99
HISTORY
Jan 30, 2016
An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization. During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and raise secret armies of partisans in German-occupied Europe. With the directive to “set Europe ablaze,” the SOE undertook a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Nazi Gestapo. An agent’s failure could result in indescribable torture, dispatch to a concentration camp, and, often, a dea...
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Dream Factories
Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis
Paperback
Ken S. Coates
9781459733770
$21.99
EDUCATION
May 14, 2016
Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.” For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing governments huge amounts of money. As the young flock to universities in ever-increasing numbers, fewer of them than ever find the elusive “good jo...
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Written in the Ruins
Cape Breton Island’s Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement
Paperback
Paul Chiasson
9781459733121
$23.99
HISTORY
Jan 23, 2016
2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award — Shortlisted Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans. From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century before any attempt at European settlement in the region, the explorer John Cabot had referred to Cape Breton as the “Island of Seven Cities.” The...
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