Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
This book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec’s National Assembly and in Canada’s House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present.
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
A revealing history of human impact in the Canadian North, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the industries that replaced the fur trade.
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Scott explores the history of Nightwood Theatre, the longest-running and most influential women's theatre company in Canada, a provider of opportunities for women theatre artists.
Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
This third edition of a classic brings readers up to date on treaty negotiations in British Columbia and is a valuable resource for those interested in the treaty process both in BC and Canada.
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.
Thinking Planning and Urbanism
By exposing the details of the Dundas Square area in Toronto, this book shows how city planners can be overwhelmed by the machinations of money and power, and why the planning field is ill-equipped to find creative solutions for post-industrial problems.
Home Is the Hunter
The James Bay Cree and Their Land
The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows.
Finding Dahshaa
Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada
Based on case studies of three self-government negotiations in the Northwest Territories, Finding Dahshaa is the first ethnographic study of the negotiation of self-government in Canada.
Becoming British Columbia
A Population History
Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way.