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From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic Transformation
By Dale Eisler. 2021
An in-depth look at the political landscape of Saskatchewan from its leftist roots to its shift in recent years to…
the right of centre.One of the most underreported stories in Canadian politics has been the political and economic transformation of Saskatchewan. The province that was the birthplace of the CCF-NDP and democratic socialism in North America has, over the last fifty years, undergone fundamental change that has altered its identity. It is now seen as the bastion of the centre-right Saskatchewan Party, which has become one of the most dominant provincial political parties in Canada.The story of that transformation, in which the once powerful NDP has been relegated to the political margins, reaches far beyond the province itself and reflects national and global events that have shaped the province over the course of the last half century. Modern Saskatchewan politics have been less about ideology and more about the influence of issues and events since the late 1960s and the lure of populist leaders who speak to an identity rooted in the province’s history.Consistent with Saskatchewan’s history, From Left to Right presents a blend of populism, a deeply embedded spirit of independence and personal initiative, coupled with communitarian values and the constant search for a better future.Big Men Fear Me
By Mark Bourrie. 2022
The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls. When George…
McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullagh’s biography "one of the great unwritten books in Canadian history"—until now. In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullagh’s inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
By Charlie Angus. 2022
The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain
By Dukesang Wong, Wanda Joy Hoe, David McIlwraith. 2020
Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that…
spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong’s written account of life working on the Canadian Pacific Railway, a Gold Mountain life, tells of the punishing work, the comradery, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and the dark and shameful history of racism and exploitation that prevailed up and down the North American continent. The Diary of Dukesang Wong includes all the selected entries translated in the mid-1960s by his granddaughter, Wanda Joy Hoe, for an undergraduate sociology paper. Background history and explanations for the diary’s unexplained references are provided by David McIlwraith, the book’s editor, who also considers why the diarist’s voice and other Chinese voices have been silenced for so long.25 mythes à déboulonner en politique québécoise
By Michel Auger. 2018
" Si les États-Unis ont leur fake news , signe dun pays divisé où on a du mal à trouver…
le sens du compromis et le centre politique, au Québec, ce sont plutôt nos mythes dans les domaines identitaire, politique, social et économique qui tiennent lieu de fake news . Il s'agit d'idées reçues et d'exagérations de la vérité ayant pu être fondées dans un passé lointain, mais qui prennent encore de nos jours une place démesurée dans le discours public. Le but de ce livre est d'amener les lecteurs à déboulonner ces idées reçues en les soumettant à l'épreuve des faits. "Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
By Sandra B. Tooze. 2020
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm––the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. He sang the anthems of…
a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story––told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians––is the rollicking story of American popular music itself. In the Arkansas Delta, a young Levon witnessed "blues, country, and gospel hit in a head-on collision," as he put it. The result was rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, he joined the raucous Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, then helped merge a hard-driving electric sound with Bob Dylan's folk roots, and revolutionized American rock with the Band. Helm not only provided perfect "in the pocket" rhythm and unforgettable vocals, he was the Band's soul. Levon traces a rebellious life on the road, from being booed with Bob Dylan to the creative cauldron of Big Pink, the Woodstock Festival, world tours, The Last Waltz, and beyond with the man Dylan called "one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation." Author Sandra B. Tooze digs deep into what Helm saw as a devastating betrayal by his closest friend, Band guitarist Robbie Robertson––and Levon's career collapse, his near bankruptcy, and the loss of his voice due to throat cancer in 1997. Yet Helm found success in an acting career that included roles in Coal Miner's Daughter and The Right Stuff. Regaining his singing voice, he made his last decade a triumph, opening his barn to the Midnight Rambles and earning three Grammys. Cancer finally claimed his life in 2012. Levon is a penetrating, skillfully told tale of a music legend from Southern cotton fields to global limelight.In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and…
a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. They pulled off a national campaign in an era when there was no social media, and with a budget that didn't stretch to long-distance phone calls. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country.The wake: the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami /
By Linden MacIntyre. 2019
On November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit the coast…
at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive earthquake-related event in Newfoundland's history, the disaster killed twenty-eight people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the outside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami, which forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula. Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, one of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his birth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a mining town. MacIntyre's father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a steady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later found to be radioactive. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would struggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging from silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. As MacIntyre says, though the tsunami killed twenty-eight people in 1929, it would claim hundreds if not thousands more lives in the decades to follow. Bestseller. 2019.René Lévesque: 4. L'homme brisé, 1980-1987
By Pierre Godin. 2005
Ce quatrième et dernier volet de la grande biographie de René Lévesque s'ouvre le surlendemain du référendum perdu de mai…
1980. Cet échec, René Lévesque allait le payer très cher. Après leur face-à-face de novembre 1981, Pierre Trudeau lui impose une constitution si inacceptable qu'il refuse de la parapher. René Lévesque affronte ensuite un parti déboussolé qui enterre référendum et association avec le Canada. En 1984, il saisit la main tendue par le nouveau premier ministre canadien, Brian Mulroney. Il est prêt à donner une dernière chance au fédéralisme. C'est l'épisode du " beau risque " qui cristallise la scission à l'intérieur du parti. En janvier 1985, c'est le burnout et la détresse psychologique. À soixante ans, il paraît fini. Dans une ambiance de conspiration et de révolution de palais, il s'accroche jusqu'au jour où il jette l'éponge avant que le parti qu'il a mis au monde ne lui indique plus brutalement encore la sortie. 2005.Histoire populaire du Québec, Tome 4: 1896-1960 [Éd. rév. et mise à jour]
By Jacques Lacoursière. 1997
Histoire populaire du Québec: 5, 1960 à 1970
By Jacques Lacoursière. 2008
A historical work of non-fiction that chronicles the little-known stories of black railway porters--the so-called "Pullmen" of the Canadian rail…
lines. The actions and spirit of these men helped define Canada as a nation in surprising ways, effecting race relations, human rights, North American multiculturalism, community building, the shape and structure of unions, and the nature of travel and business across the US and Canada. Drawing on the stories and legends of several of these influential early black Canadians, this book narrates the history of a very visible, but rarely considered, aspect of black life in railway-age Canada. These porters, who fought against the idea of Canada as White Man's Country, open only to immigrants from Europe, fought for and won a Canada that would provide opportunities for all its citizens. Bestseller. 2019.Le cœur des Laurentides
By Michel Allard, Mimi Painchaud-Francœur. 2017
Dans la région dite le coeur des Laurentides, située dans l'une des plus vieilles chaînes de montagnes du monde, s'est…
implantée au fil des siècles une collectivité qui, depuis l'arrivée des premiers Amérindiens, s'est adaptée et a su tirer profit d'un climat hostile, d'une terre peu propice à l'agriculture et d'un territoire d'accès difficile. Claude-Henri Grignon a popularisé cette région avec ses Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut. Si l'industrie du bois participe au développement des Laurentides, ce sont les touristes qui prendront le relais, troquant haches, scies et charrues pour des cannes à pêche, des fusils de chasse et des paires de ski. Les activités sportives ou de plein air, les manifestations culturelles ou tout simplement la quiétude de la nature attirent des milliers de visiteurs, dont plusieurs finiront par y établir leur résidence permanente. C'est au fascinant récit de l'histoire de cette société que Michel Allard convie les touristes, les villégiateurs, les étudiants et les résidents, bref, toutes celles et tous ceux qui désirent mieux comprendre et mieux apprécier la destinée de ce coin de pays. 2017.Viola Desmond's Canada: a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land
By Graham Reynolds, Wanda Robson. 2016
In 1946, a Black Halifax businesswoman, Viola Desmond, was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a white's-only section of a movie…
theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, sixty-four years later, the Nova Scotia government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon. Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks, the American civil rights icon who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond's similar act of courage in resisting the practice of racial segregation occurred nine years before this historic event. However, today, even after the Nova Scotia Government's unprecedented pardon of Desmond, many Canadians are still unaware of her story or that racial segregation existed throughout many parts of Canada during most of the twentieth century. 2016.Nouvelle-France: ce qu'on aurait dû vous enseigner
By Gilles Proulx. 2015
" Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de…
leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui. C'est pour corriger ces tristes lacunes qu'au-delà des faits de guerre et autres dates marquantes, l'auteur de Nouvelle-France raconte avec verve les actes de bravoure de Madeleine de Verchères, qui sauva les habitants de son fort d'une attaque iroquoise, les découvertes de Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, explorateur de la Louisiane et fondateur de La Nouvelle-Orléans, ou la ténacité extraordinaire dont ont fait preuve Louis Hébert et sa famille, premiers colons de Nouvelle-France. Avec l'irrévérence et la passion qu'on lui connaît, Proulx se fait fort de redonner à ses lecteurs, jeunes et moins jeunes, la soif d'apprendre leur histoire. Cet ouvrage est une édition entièrement revue du livre à succès paru en 1992 sous le titre Ma petite histoire de la Nouvelle-France. " -- 4e de couv.Le Québec dans la Grande Guerre: engagements, refus, héritages
By Charles-Philippe Courtois, Laurent Veyssière. 2015
" Lorsque le 4 août 1914, la Grande-Bretagne déclare la guerre à l'Allemagne, le Canada se trouve également de facto…
en état de guerre. Contrairement au reste de l'Europe, l'Empire britannique ne peut compter sur une mobilisation générale lui permettant d'engager au front une armée nombreuse, et s'en remet au volontariat, d'abord en Grande-Bretagne, puis rapidement dans ses dominions. Le 20 octobre, un regroupement d'hommes politiques, de religieux et d'hommes d'affaires canadiens français obtient du gouvernement la création d'un bataillon canadien français. Dès 1916, le recrutement volontaire s'essouffle alors que les pertes au front exigent des enrôlements toujours plus importants. En août 1917, une loi sur le service militaire obligatoire est adoptée, avivant un peu plus les tensions entre les différentes communautés dans le pays. Sous la forte influence d'un pacifisme chrétien, l'élite canadienne française affirme son opposition à la conscription, rapidement rejointe par l'ensemble de la population... " -- 4e de couv.Original highways: travelling the great rivers of Canada
By Roy MacGregor. 2017
No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. MacGregor, has paddled, sailed and traversed Canada's rivers, learned their…
stories and secrets, and the tales of centuries lived on their rapids and riverbanks. He raises lost tales, like that of the Great Tax Revolt of the Gatineau River, and reconsiders histories like that of the Irish would-be settlers who died on Grosse Ile and the incredible resilience of settlers in the Red River Valley. Along the Grand, the Ottawa and others, he meets the successful conservationists behind the resuscitation of polluted wetlands, including even Toronto's Don, the most abused river in Canada (where he witnesses families of mink, returned to play on its banks). Long before our national railroad was built, our rivers held Canada together; in these sixteen portraits, filled with yesterday's adventures and tomorrow's promise, MacGregor weaves together a story of Canada and its ongoing relationship with its most precious resource. 2017.Les raisons de la colère
By Yves Michaud. 2005
Les raisons de la colère propose un Michaud par les textes. Figure tantôt auréolée de courage lorsqu'il se porte à…
la défense des petits épargnants (ce qui lui a valu le surnom de Robin des banques), tantôt controversée lorsqu'il doit se défendre d'une accusation de délit d'opinion par l'Assemblée nationale: chaque fois le nom d'Yves Michaud occupe le haut du pavé de l'actualité. Pour autant, a-t-on lu Yves Michaud? Sait-on assez ce que le grand reporter, l'homme politique, le diplomate, le nationaliste [...] a écrit au cours des cinquante dernières années?Le référendum volé
By Robin Philpot. 2005
"Le dicton populaire veut que la vérité choque et on n'aura jamais si bien dit à propos de ce livre.…
Canadien anglais d'origine, Robin Philpot a adopté le Québec il y a plus d'un quart de siècle. Quand il a demandé à des acteurs importants de la victoire du NON de lui parler de leur rôle lors du référendum de 1995, ceux-ci ne se sont pas doutés de ses convictions souverainistes. Tel un Michael Moore, il a obtenu les confidences étonnantes de Brian Tobin, concepteur et organisateur du mal nommé love-in du 27 octobre 1995, de l'ineffable Sheila Copps, qui souhaitait "écraser" les souverainistes, de John Rae, responsable des affaires politiques de Power Corporation et homme à tout faire de Jean Chrétien, de James Blanchard, ancien ambassadeur américain au Canada et de plusieurs autres. De leurs témoignages ressort un mot d'ordre : la fin justifie les moyens. [...]" -- 4e de couvLes violents, les forts, les hasardeux (Le fabuleux roman d'un pays. #1.)
By Roch Carrier. 2013
" Dans cet ouvrage, Roch Carrier entreprend de retracer le projet français de la conquête de l'Amérique. Il parcourt les…
siècles comme on traverse des pays contemporains, à la manière d'un touriste curieux qui n'aura pas la prétention d'avoir tout découvert ni tout compris. Dans un contexte extrêmement mouvementé explorations, développement de la technique navale, missions, conquête des territoires, expansion de l'influence des pays, guerres , l'auteur suit le fil, souvent ténu, de la volonté politique exprimée par la France d'installer des colonies en Amérique, de les occuper et de les soutenir. L'idée de la conquête du territoire américain et de sa défense sera portée et défendue par des violents, des forts et des hasardeux, motivés aussi par des intérêts personnels. Ce sont eux que nous suivons, eux qui se sont lancés à la conquête de l'Amérique malgré les incertitudes, les hésitations, les contradictions, le faible soutien et souvent le peu d'intérêt qu'avaient les autorités françaises pour leur entreprise. " -- 4e de couv.