The Canada 150 Collection
In honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial, University of Toronto Press is proud to introduce the Canada 150 Collection, a special selection of outstanding books published over the years that bear witness to the depth and breadth of the nation’s history and the diversity of its peoples. These books showcase remarkable achievements as well as uncomfortable truths in Canada’s history, from pre-Confederation to the present. This carefully curated collection includes classic works of cultural, historical, legal, and literary scholarship that have informed and shaped Canada as a nation. A testament to University of Toronto Press’s longstanding commitment to authoritative and boundary-pushing scholarship, the Canada 150 Collection presents works that are essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone with an interest in Canada’s past and future.
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The Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487522421
Pub Date: May 2017
James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone.
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487516635
Pub Date: May 2017
Mainstream, or straight, pornography still flourishes, while those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. A critical analysis of pornography after the Supreme Court’s Butler (1992) decision.
Canada's Navy
The First Century, Second Edition
Price:
$51.00
ISBN: 9781487522360
Pub Date: May 2017
A wide-ranging look at the history of the Canadian Navy, from its beginnings in 18th-century exploration and trade, to its astonishing expansion during the Second World War, through to its current roles in operations with United Nations and NATO forces.
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487522315
Pub Date: May 2017
The Struggle for Canadian Sport adds to our understanding of the material and social conditions under which people created and elaborated sports and the contested ideological terrain on which sports were played and interpreted.
Canada's Founding Debates
Price:
$54.00
ISBN: 9781487516536
Pub Date: May 2017
Canada's Founding Debates offers a fresh and often surprising perspective on Canada's origins, history, and political character.Previous published by Stoddart Publishing, 1999.
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Price:
$54.00
ISBN: 9781487516611
Pub Date: May 2017
Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.
Newfoundland and Labrador
A History
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781487516604
Pub Date: May 2017
Examining the region from prehistoric times to the present, Newfoundland and Labrador is not only a comprehensive history of the province, but an illuminating portrait of the Atlantic world and European colonisation of the Americas.
Northern Voices
Inuit Writings in English
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487522377
Pub Date: May 2017
A classic anthology that combines the rich oral tradition of Northern Canadian Inuit as well as their more recent English writing. Petrone links the cultural past of arctic peoples with its present day expression.
Just Words
Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487516550
Pub Date: May 2017
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
Recovering Canada
The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487516758
Pub Date: June 2017
John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach.
Paddling Her Own Canoe
The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487516956
Pub Date: June 2017
The only major scholarly study that examines E. Pauline Johnson’s diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist.
The Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
Price:
$40.95
ISBN: 9781487522391
Pub Date: May 2017
The Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487522407
Pub Date: May 2017
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective sets the Canadian Senate into this international milieu, contextualizing the debate and arguing for a renewed investigation into its future.
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487516628
Pub Date: May 2017
In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English.
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487516642
Pub Date: May 2017
Creighton examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada’s economic and national development.
Toronto, No Mean City
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487516543
Pub Date: May 2017
This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition.

The Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487522421
Pub Date: May 2017
James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone.
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487516635
Pub Date: May 2017
Mainstream, or straight, pornography still flourishes, while those centering on gay and lesbian sex and s/m sex, are the focus of censorship. A critical analysis of pornography after the Supreme Court’s Butler (1992) decision.
Canada's Navy
The First Century, Second Edition
$51.00
ISBN: 9781487522360
Pub Date: May 2017
A wide-ranging look at the history of the Canadian Navy, from its beginnings in 18th-century exploration and trade, to its astonishing expansion during the Second World War, through to its current roles in operations with United Nations and NATO forces.
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487522315
Pub Date: May 2017
The Struggle for Canadian Sport adds to our understanding of the material and social conditions under which people created and elaborated sports and the contested ideological terrain on which sports were played and interpreted.
Canada's Founding Debates
$54.00
ISBN: 9781487516536
Pub Date: May 2017
Previous published by Stoddart Publishing, 1999.
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
$54.00
ISBN: 9781487516611
Pub Date: May 2017
Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.
Newfoundland and Labrador
A History
$45.95
ISBN: 9781487516604
Pub Date: May 2017
Examining the region from prehistoric times to the present, Newfoundland and Labrador is not only a comprehensive history of the province, but an illuminating portrait of the Atlantic world and European colonisation of the Americas.
Northern Voices
Inuit Writings in English
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487522377
Pub Date: May 2017
A classic anthology that combines the rich oral tradition of Northern Canadian Inuit as well as their more recent English writing. Petrone links the cultural past of arctic peoples with its present day expression.
Just Words
Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487516550
Pub Date: May 2017
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.
Recovering Canada
The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487516758
Pub Date: June 2017
John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach.
Paddling Her Own Canoe
The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
$43.95
ISBN: 9781487516956
Pub Date: June 2017
The only major scholarly study that examines E. Pauline Johnson’s diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist.
The Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
$40.95
ISBN: 9781487522391
Pub Date: May 2017
The Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487522407
Pub Date: May 2017
The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective sets the Canadian Senate into this international milieu, contextualizing the debate and arguing for a renewed investigation into its future.
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487516628
Pub Date: May 2017
In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English.
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487516642
Pub Date: May 2017
Creighton examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada’s economic and national development.
Toronto, No Mean City
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487516543
Pub Date: May 2017
This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition.