Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Peter van Wyck
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
A subarctic mine on the far eastern shores of Great Bear Lake provided Canadian uranium for the bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945. However, a complete history of Canada’s involvement in the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb has been thwarted by restrictions on classified documents.
Principles and Gerrymanders
Parliamentary Redistribution of Ridings in Ontario, 1840-1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Redistributing electoral ridings alters their number, revises their boundaries, or does both at the same time. Ostensibly, the purpose of redistribution is to adjust parliamentary representation for population changes - the growth or decline of population, or shifts in its territorial distribution and...
On to Civvy Street
Canada's Rehabilitation Program for Veterans of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing...
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
Constitution Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land in 1869-70. He describes how some investors lobbied the British government for the policies that...
No Free Man
Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Approximately 8,000 Canadian civilians were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic ties to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other enemy nations. Although not as well-known as the later internments of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, these incarcerations played a crucial...
Wish I Were Here
Boredom and the Interface
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you...
Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island
Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who wanted land redistributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individual management strategies were determined in part by class standing and marital status, as well as individual eccentricities and prejudices....
Unpacking the Kists
The Scots in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth...
by Steven King
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and...
Wash, Wear, and Care
Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount,...
Mordecai Richler
Leaving St Urbain
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his...
Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy
The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their...
Tax, Order, and Good Government
A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point...
Abenaki Daring
The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792–1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted...