Product Description: In 2004, Tommy Douglas easily topped a CBC television poll as "The Greatest Canadian" because of his preeminent role in the introduction of medicare in the 1960s. But Tommy Douglas did not accomplish all that he did on his own. Regrettably, the people who helped make his accomplishments possible have been largely overlooked, forgotten, or simply ignored...read more

Product Description: An astounding collection of aerial photographs of farms, villages, and communities large and small from Ontario to British Columbia-Thunder Bay to Victoria-in the 1950s and 1960s. This book is perfect for the nostalgia and gift market, history and aviation buffs, and those interested in photography...read more

Product Description: University of Saskatchewan historian Bill Waiser has selected and compiled Everett Baker's photographs into the first-ever book-form showcase of this exceptional photographer's work. "Everett Baker's photographic documentation of the province in the mid-twentieth century is a national treasure," Bill Waiser declares in the Introduction to this book...read more

Product Description: Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist - Children's Book, 2007Named CBC's Greatest Canadian of all!Tommy recalled in the 1950s, "I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price-tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay...read more

Product Description: In Saskatchewan: A New History, award-winning author and historian Bill Waiser presents a fresh, entertaining account and interpretation of Saskatchewan's unique and captivating history. Writing with clarity, candor, and compassion, Waiser describes in detail his province and its people through the stimulating, often tumultuous years since joining Confederation in 1905...read more

Product Description:      Scorn to take the crumbs they drop us;     All is ours by right!      Onward, men, all hell can't stop us;      Crush the parasites!     — Trekker's protest song The Great Depression of the 1930s brought drought, unemployment, and poverty to the West, and the token wages from the government's "make work" projects only fanned the flames of unrest...read more

Product Description: Historians, like reporters, are detectives - hunting down new stories that provide different perspectives on historical events. Looking Back is based on the popular weekly five-minute history series of the same name created by Paul Dederick, an award-winning CBC TV current affairs producer and Bill Waiser a University of Saskatchewan history professor...read more

Product Description: Between 1915 and 1946, the Canadian government put some ten thousand unskilled foreigners, jobless and homeless people, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and prisoners of war to work in westernCanada's national parks...read more

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Product Description: Documenting Canada had its beginnings in the summer of 1990 when the country faced a seemingly endless string of problems and controversies. It was readily apparent from the level of public discussion during our long summer of discontent that the historical background to many contemporary issues was little understood...read more