A Folding Pocket Guide to All Known Native and Introduced Species
Alberta Fishes highlights 70 native and introduced species. This beautifully illustrated guide provides descriptions on fish anatomy, a key to field marks, a watershed map and conservation status. Printed on waterproof paper for durability, this pocket guide is an excellent source of information, ideal for use by novices and experts.
Explores the major health issues of Indigenous populations and how to improve their overall health. This second edition addresses a key development since the first edition was published: an increasing consensus among Indigenous peoples that their health is tied to environmental determinants, both physical and philosophical.
Canadian teens fell in love with The Beatles months before teens in the U.S. did. Here are the events, people and stories that led to Beatlemania in Canada during 1963 and 1964.
In 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of 1867, colonial Canadians tried to imagine the future of their communities in North America. The choice between monarchy and republicanism shaped both colonial self-images and images of the United States; it also drove the ......
Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States
The virtual inability to open new hazardous waste management facilities in Canada and the United States stems directly from a form of community opposition so common and vehement that it is commonly identified as a syndrome: Not In My Back Yard (or NIMBY). Beyond NIMBY examines positive alternatives to prevailing approaches to siting and the ......
The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II
This classic of small-unit warfare focuses on the young Canadian soldiers who helped liberate Northwest Europe in World War II. The 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade landed in Normandy a month after D-Day in 1944 and quickly found itself in hellish fighting near Caen and in the costly and controversial battle for Verrieres Ridge.
British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) is in Alberta, on the dry Canadian prairie, where the Indian tribes once hunted buffalo. It is slightly larger than Luxembourg. Its purpose is to provide all-arms, battle group training with live firing; involving infantry, armour, artillery, aviation and support arms. The AAC has served there since ......
A Folding Pocket Guide to All Known Native and Introduced Freshwater Spe
British Columbia Fishes highlights 90 native and introduced species. This beautifully illustrated 12-panel laminated, folding guide provides descriptions on fish anatomy, a key to field marks, a watershed map and conservation status.