Set ISBN 13: 978-894915-23-6
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The CANADIAN HERITAGE COLLECTION is a series of 12 books that explore 20th Century Canada through primary source documents. Each book focuses on a central theme and is organized by decade to show the unique flavor of the period — its appearance and mood, the defining issues and events, and the prominent people who shaped it.
Primary source documents are the original writings and images of any given time period. They are witnesses to our past. Through these documents we are able to listen to the voices of historical figures and examine their feelings as they describe or depict the events of the day. History comes alive for us because we experience it through the people who lived it.
Primary source documents are an engaging path into history. Thoughtfully examined, they provide essential insights into the past and serve as a framework in understanding the present.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-88-8
Popular culture is an ever-changing reflection of how people see themselves and how others represent them.
Our entertainment, popular trends, fads, fashions, and the "arts of the moment" allow us to observe how Canadians have lived and enjoyed themselves. Popular culture identifies our heroes and often reflects mainstream values and beliefs. It defines, and is defined by, what is important here and now. The images and other primary documents in this book capture exciting moments and trends in Canadian popular culture from 1900 to the beginning of the new millennium.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-87-1
It is hard to imagine a world without art. Traditionally historians have studied the art of nations to learn about the values and beliefs of their people.
Twentieth-century Canadian art tells the story of a nation coming of age. This book offers an exciting visual record of that story through a wide range of primary source documents.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-73-4
In the 21st century, it is difficult to imagine a world without advertising. Both in the home and out, we are bombarded with literally thousands of images selling products and concepts. Therefore, advertisements have become important primary documents for historians. This book offers a panoramic view of 20th Century Canada through a wide variety of advertisements.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-76-5
This book explores 20th century Canada through the words and actions of the Canadian men and women who have made
their mark on the nations. The primary source documents offer insights into how these personalities helped shape Canadian history, from immigration to conservation, from finance to medical research.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-74-1
Since September 11, 2001 our world has changed. Now, more than ever, we feel the need to protect and be protected. For the last one hundred years Canadian men and
women in the military and on the home front have made tremendous sacrifices to secure peace in our country and all over the globe. This book explores Canada's participation in war and peacekeeping missions throughout the 20th century.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-81-9
It is difficult to imagine a Canada without Quebec or a Quebec without Canada. Yet on 30 October 1995, Canadians from coast to
coast were watching national television coverage of "Separation Night in Canada." Canadians/Canadiens anxiously viewed the referendum tallies as they came in from across the province of Quebec. By evening's end, Canada was held together by the slimmest of margins. What had brought Canada to the precipice? What does the future hold for this country? With these questions in mind, this resource offers primary documents that will help the reader to gain a better understanding of the long and storied relationship between Canada's two founding cultures.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-80-2
Canadians often use the term "mosaic" to describe their country: a nation of immigrants with the capacity to preserve ethnic and cultural uniqueness within a
country whose broader focus is civic nationalism. Debates over immigration policies, as well as acceptable intake numbers, however, continue into the 21st century. The primary documents in this book offer a survey of Canadian immigrants and the impact they have made on the cultural, economic, and social values of our Canadian society.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-83-8
"We have within fifty years not only one, but several technological revolutions which have changed our way of life even more drastically
than do changes in government." — Arthur Lower, Canadian Historian, 1955. It has been over 100 years since Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier predicted that the 20th century would belong to Canada. The primary source documents in this book demonstrate how the Canadian economy was influenced by the dramatic changes brought about by periodic clusters of innovations, and has evolved from an agriculture-based society to a knowledge-based, hi-tech economy.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-77-2
A nation that began as a constitutional compromise, Canada has often been described as "ungovernable." Yet it is one
of the most stable political systems in the world today. A diverse, multicultural population thrives within an officially bilingual framework that recognizes the original deal struck between the English and French founders. The primary documents in this book trace the stirring events leading to nationhood and beyond, and reveal the passions and insights of Canadian citizens from the late 19th century into the new millennium.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-75-8
"In 1904, Sir Wilfrid Laurier boldly predicted that "the 20th century shall be filled by Canada." In the course of the past hundred
years, Canada has evolved from colony to Dominion to fully independent state. This volume traces the dramatic process through an examination of primary sources and focuses on Canada's changing social, political, and economic relationship with Great Britain, the United States of America, and the wider world. What emerges is a powerful portrait of Canada's determined but occasionally agonizing and faltering quest both for recognition on the international stage and for a distinct role in an increasingly interconnected global village.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-86-4
Canada is better today for the efforts of its labour and social reformers — for the labour it has taken to build the country and for the activism taken to improve it.
This book presents a unique overview of Canadian reform history from its roots in the nineteenth century through each decade of the twentieth century. These stories are told through a wide variety of images and perspective in the primary documents included in this book.
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ISBN 13: 978-0-921156-79-6
"The histories of Canada and the United States are inextricably woven. From the moment that the rebellious Thirteen Colonies removed themselves from the British Empire,
both countries have developed in an interdependent way. This resource offers primary documents that will help the reader gain a deeper understanding of the long and storied relationship between these two proud, sovereign nations.