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  1. Aboriginal Ontario
    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
  2. The Acadians of Nova Scotia Past and Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities.
  3. Activist archiving in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  4. Agnes Macphail
    Champion of the Underdog

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  5. Agrarian Socialism
    The Cooperative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1968
    A study of the social background of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, which in 1944 became to first government with avowed socialist goals to be elected to office in Canada. The updated 1968 edition contains a new introduction and additional essays by five other scholars.
  6. The Anatomy of a Party
    The National CCF 1932-1961

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
    A history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation focusing on the relationship between the CCF as a movement and as a political party.
  7. Angels of the Workplace
    Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Detailing the disparities between men and women in terms of wages and representation, this book is the definitive history of discrimination against women in Canada's clothing industry.
  8. At Twilight in the Country
    Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  9. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
  10. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  11. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  12. Brother Max
    Labour Organizer and Educator

    Resource Type: Book
    Max Swerdlow outlines his work beginning in Depression-era Winnipeg, leading to his involvement with the International Labour Organization.
  13. Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  14. Canada for the People!: A Study of the Social Gospel in Canadian History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    United Church of Canada's relation with the social gospel and the criticisms of the Social Gospel movement
  15. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
  16. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
  17. Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Trudel discusses slavery as a part of colonial Canada since 1629, its continuation under the British regime and its official abolition.
  18. Canada's Rights Movement: A History
    Resource Type: Website
    A site dedicated to the history of the human rights movement in Canada. Although the site has sections on various aspects of the "rights revolution", it is primarily designed to highlight the activities of social movement organizations (non-governmental organizations).
  19. Canadian Activism Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Site which is attempting to build a historical archives of, and useful guides for, social justice and environmental activism in Canada.
  20. Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive list of links to Canadian archives and associated resources on the Internet.
  21. The Canadian Jewish Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  22. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  23. Canadian Labour History Bibliography, 1976-2009
    Resource Type: Database
    First Published: 2010
    Recognizing the limitations that must be set on a project that relies primarily on a single individual, the bibliography has been limited to English-language monographs, pamphlets, journal articles, articles from edited collections (each item in an edited collection is entered separately) and graduate theses. Items are included if they were published between 1976 and 2009.
  24. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  25. The Canadian Left 
    A Critical Analysis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
  26. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
  27. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  28. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Gillespie records the men and women who struggled within an economic system they did not control to improve the lives of their families and their class.
  29. Coalitions for Justice
    The Story of Canada's Interchurch Coalitions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  30. The Communist Party in Canada
    A History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A history of the Communist Party in Canada from its beginnings to the 1970s.
  31. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  32. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  33. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  34. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  35. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  36. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  37. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  38. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  39. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  40. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  41. The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
  42. Democracy in Alberta
    Social Credit and the Party System

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953
    An examination of the development of the party system in Alberta.
  43. Double Standard
    The Secret History of Canadian Immigration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
  44. The East York Workers' Association
    A Response to the Great Depression

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
  45. 1837: Revolution in the Canadas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    A selection of the writings of William Lyon Mackenzie and the Patriots of the 1837 Rebellion.
  46. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  47. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  48. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
  49. Farmers Confront Industrialism
    Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
  50. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
  51. Firing The Heather
    The Life and Times of Nellie McClung

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
  52. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  53. Forum: Canadian Life and Letters - 1920-1970
    Selections from the Canadian Forum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of articles from fifty years of the Canadian Forum magazine.
  54. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
  55. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
  56. The German Canadians 1750-1937:
    Immigration, Settlement, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  57. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  58. Halfbreed; A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy
    A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  59. Hanging in Canada
    A Concise History of a Controversial Topic

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1982
  60. Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume I: From the Beginning to 1800
    Resource Type: Book
  61. Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume II: The Land Transformed 1800-1891
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  62. Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume III: Addressing the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
  63. The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914
    Volume I - The Banks and Finance Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A comprehensive history of Canadian business and a detailed account of the development of commerce and industry in the formative period from Confederation to the first World War. In Volume 1 on the banks and finance capital, the story of the growth of the Canadian chartered banking system is told in detail. Included is an analysis of the many bank failures, and an explanation of the techniques used successfully by the largest chartered banks to dominate banking and finance in the new confederation. Several chapters deal with hitherto unrecorded facets of the development of the financial system of Canada, the major financial institutions and the types of operations they financed.
  64. The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914
    Volume II - Industrial Development

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    This comprehensive two-volume history of Canadian business is a detailed account of the development of commerce and industry in the formative period from Confederation to the first World War. Volume II deals mainly with the develpment of manufacturing and industry. The rapid growth of foreign branch plants which followed the National Policy is examined in detail, as are business assistance measures like patent laws, tariffs, government subsidies and municipal 'bonusing'. Naylor offers detailed accountes of the rise of big businesses through the formation of cartels and mergers assembled out of smaller independent operations.
  65. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1914   Published: 1972
    Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
  66. History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
  67. A history of the peace movement in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1982
  68. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  69. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began 
    An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
  70. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  71. The Immigrant Years
    From Europe to Canada 1945-1967

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  72. The Inconvenient Indian 
    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
  73. Indian Giver
    A Legacy of North American Native Peoples

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Traces some of the significant contributions made by Native people to the modern world.
  74. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
  75. Jewish Labour Committee
    Connexipedia: Article on HistoryofRights.com

    Resource Type: Article
    Formed in 1936, the JLC was a front runner in the push for anti-discrimination legislation in Ontario.
  76. Justice Behind the Walls
    Human Rights in Canadian Prisons

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An account of the state of justice in Canadian prisons, weaving together the threads of correctional history, penal philosophy, landmark court decisions, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and legislative changes.
  77. Kill The Messengers
    Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
  78. The Labour Companion
    A bibliography of Canadian labour history. Second edition.

    Resource Type: Database
    First Published: 1980   Published: 2015
    he Canadian Labour Bibliography was an initiative of the Committee on Canadian Labour History in the 1970s. The initial efforts to create an annual reading list of publications dealing with Canadian labour topics led to the creation of The Labour Companion: a bibliography of Canadian labour history based on materials printed from 1950 to 1975. Beginning in 1985, references for the second edition were gathered from libraries and archives, from bibliographies and footnotes, and through a systematic indexing of major Canadian periodicals. The Labour Companion (1980) contained 92 pages of citations; the current manuscript has grown since that time to approximately 760 pages.
  79. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  80. The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
  81. Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    This volume presents lectures in 1983 and 1984 on the history of the Canadian working class.
  82. Life Before Medicare
    Canadian Experiences

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  83. The Little Band
    The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  84. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  85. The Mackenzie - Papineau Battalion
    Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    The story of over twelve hundred Canadians who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
  86. Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1910
    Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
  87. Masterless Men of Newfoundland
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
  88. Memories of the Depression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
  89. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  90. The Movement and the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
  91. My Past is Now
    Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer

    Resource Type: Book
    This account begins with Stanton's childhood, leading to cases such as his defence of Fergus McKean, and a Cold War libel suit in BC.
  92. New Hogtown Press
    After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
  93. New Hogtown Press
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
  94. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish

    Resource Type: Article
  95. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
  96. No Bankers in Heaven
    Remembering the CCF

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An oral history of men and women who devoted themselves to building the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
  97. North-West Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people.
  98. Of dust and time and dreams and agonies
    A short history of Canadian people

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  99. On to Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
  100. On-to-Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
  101. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
    Labour Day issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
  102. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
    We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
    This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
    Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
    Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
    Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
  103. Papineau, Louis-Joseph
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
  104. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  105. People of Terra Nullius
    Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  106. Pictures Bring Us Messages
    Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
  107. Plunderbund and Proletariat
    A History of the IWW in B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
  108. A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
    with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  109. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  110. The Praxis Affair
    There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
  111. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
  112. A Prophet in Politics
    A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959
    A biography of the Canadian socialist who became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
  113. Radicals and Revolutionaries
    The History of Canadian Communism from the Robert S. Kenny Collection

    Resource Type: Article
    Radicals and Revolutionaries explores a significant yet neglected area in Canadian history-the experiences of the radical workers' movement and the Communist Party of Canada. Although a minority current on the Canadian political scene, at key points the radical movement posed a pointed challenge to the established order. Within that section of the socialist movement which openly identified itself as revolutionary, the CPC clearly predominated. It was instrumental in building the industrial union movement and played a key role in many of the major strikes of this century. In the social upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s, its influence extended far beyond its numbers.
  114. Raising the Workers' Flag
    The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
  115. Reasoning Otherwise
    Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
  116. The Rebel in the House
    Resource Type: Book
  117. Rebellions of 1837
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In lower Canada the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent French Canadian nationalism. By comparison the Upper Canada rebellion was a more limited affair. There was growing discontent with the network of officials, erroneously described as the family compact, who dominated the administration of the government and controlled the distribution of patronage throughout the province.
  118. Rebellions of 1837
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
  119. Rebels, Reds, Radicals 
    Rethinking Canada's Left History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
  120. Red River Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Name given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.
  121. Red River Rebellion
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Red River Rebellion (also known as Red River Resistance), a movement of national self-determination by the metis of the red river colony in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70. The inhabitants were continually in conflict with the HBC, particularly over trading privileges.
  122. Reflections of a Siamese Twin
    Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
  123. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
  124. Reservations Are For Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1991
    Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
  125. Riel, Louis
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
  126. Salt of the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
  127. Sea of Slaughter 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1984
    Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the virtual destruction of the salmon fishery on the east coast.
  128. Seeds of Fire 
    A People's Chronology

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012   Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  129. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
  130. She Named It Canada
    Because that's what it was called

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    An illustrated history of Canada.
  131. She never was afraid
    The biography of Annie Buller

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The story of Annie Buller, a Canadian trade union activist and Communist.
  132. Six Weeks of Solidarity
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1995
    A look at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, 75 years later.
  133. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
  134. Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
    The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
  135. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
  136. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
  137. The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
  138. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  139. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  140. Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939
    Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An oral history of the Great Depression in Canada.
  141. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  142. They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
  143. This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
    Spring 1971 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
  144. Toronto Public Library Online
    Resource Type: Website
    An on-line catalogue of more than one million books, serials, government documents, maps, scores, sound recordings and other materials. Extensive Canadiana and Toronto and Ontario local history sections. The library's Answerline provides responses to E-mail enquiries on basic factual questions which don't require in-depth research.
  145. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1968
    An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
  146. Un Canadien errant
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    First Published: 1842
    A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians who had been deported from Acadia in 1755-62, changed to 'Un Acadien errant.'
  147. An Unauthorized Biography of the World 
    Oral History on the Front Lines

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
  148. An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A critical history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  149. The Un-Canadians
    True Stores of the blacklist Era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
  150. Underdevelopment in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A collection of articles analyzing underdevelopment in Canada in historical and economic terms.
  151. Unequal Union 
    Confederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815 - 1873

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Ryerson examines the connection between the social and the national in Canadian history.
  152. The Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
  153. The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Looking back on the development of Black radical organizations in Canada.
  154. Whatever Happened to High School History?
    Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A look at how high school history was taught between the 1940's and 1990's, and subsequent decline iof the discipline that used to be a core subject in Canadian secondary education.
  155. When Freedom Was Lost
    The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
  156. Winnipeg 1919
    The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1975
    The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
  157. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
  158. Workers' Control on the Railroad
    A Practical Example 'Right Under Your Nose'

    Resource Type: Book
    Morgan outlines his philosophy of workers' control. Anthropologists Gail Pool and Donna Young locate Lefty's work in current debates.
  159. Working Class Experience 
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
  160. Working Class History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  161. Working-Class History
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people.
  162. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  163. Working in Steel
    The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Emphasizes the importance of changes in the work world for the larger patterns of working-class life.
  164. Yours in the Struggle
    Reminiscences of Tim Buck

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.

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