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Robert Craig Brown Fonds
Personal records of Robert Craig Brown, professor emeritus of History, consisting of professional correspondence; teaching files; files on professional activities, especially with the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Royal Society of Canada/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Canadian democracy project; research files and manuscripts for his biography of Robert Laird Borden and the history of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, along with manuscripts for other books, essays, articles, and other writings; and addresses. Includes photographs, audiocassette tapes of interviews, and a video.
Canada and the First World War
Canada and the First World War is a tribute to esteemed University of Toronto historian Robert Craig Brown, one of Canada's greatest authorities on World War One, and the contributors include a cross-section of his friends, colleagues, contemporaries, and former students.
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada's experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada's leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
The Last Plague
The 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died. In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged t...
Canada and the First World War
"The First World War is often credited with being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian society. The fifteen essays contained in Canada and the First World War examine how Canadians experienced the war and how their experiences were shaped by region, politics, gender, race class, and nationalism."--Jacket.
Ethnicity and Citizenship
Examining past and present policies on immigration, current arguments regarding the evolution of the Canadian constitutional system and the continuing search for new definitions of citizenship; this book looks at the components of citizenship in Canada and the diversity of attitudes.
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
As much upheaval as WWI caused in Canada, its aftermath was even more transformative for the country. With victory and the return the troops, Canadian society was now faced with the question of how to return to normalcy — and what "normal" would mean, as Canada emerged from its colonial status and found its independent national identity.
Alan Bowker's Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle
In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock profiled with keen wit and observational skill. With Bowker as your guide, explore what it was really like to live through the great upheaval that pushed Canada to come into its own on the world stage. A Time Such as There Never Was Before Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” T...
