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Earl of Selkirk's Settlement: Upon the Red River in North AmericaIn 1811, on land he received as a grant from the Hudson Bay Company in what is now Manitoba, the Earl of Selkirk established the Red River Colony. The colony met with conflict from the very beginning and was dispersed in 1815. The following...
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Go Home BayIn 1914, Tom Thomson spent the summer at a family cottage on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, where he taught the ten-year-old daughter, Helen, how to paint. Author Susan Vande Griek and illustrator Pascal Milelli have imagined this time through Helen's eyes, providing an intriguing...
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TecumsehLonglisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of North America's First Peoples. This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable...
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The Wexford: Elusive Shipwreck of the Great Storm, 1913The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly...
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I Am Heartily Ashamed, Volume II: The Revolutionary War's Final Campaign as Waged from Canada in 1782The second installment in Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary War series, I am heartily ashamed picks up where A dirty, trifling piece of business leaves off. It's a new year with new challenges. An incredibly fierce Canadian winter was endured before raiding was resumed against...
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What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in KandaharBy every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through...
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Soldiers of Song: The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World WarThe seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells--concert parties made up of fighting soldiers--were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their...
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Lines Drawn Upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and BorderlandsThe First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian--American border on communities, with reference to...
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Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial GothicUnsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian...
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Naomi's TreeA young couple leaves Japan for the coast of Canada, bringing a cherry seed to plant in their new garden. During the years that follow, the little cherry tree watches over the family as the couple have children, and then grandchildren. Young Naomi makes...
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W.A.C. BennettAuthor: David J. MitchellPublisher: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Published: 01/01/1995Pages: 498Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11dISBN: 9781553657736This title is not returnable
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The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier's StoryAuthor: James R. DavisPublisher: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Published: 01/01/1997Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9781553657538This title is not returnable
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First Peoples in CanadaFirst Peoples in Canada provides an overview of all the Aboriginal groups in Canada. Incorporating the latest research in anthropology, archaeology, ethnography and history, this new edition describes traditional ways of life, traces cultural changes that resulted from contacts with the Europeans, and examines...
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Canadian Girls Who Rocked the WorldTake an adventure with some of Canada's most interesting and accomplished young women. An inspiring book, Canadian Girls Who Rocked the World tells the stories of Canadian girls who won Olympic medals, discovered dinosaurs, explored their country or shaped its history -- all while...
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Trans Canada Trail: British ColumbiaA spectacular journey through the heart of British Columbia. The Trans Canada Trail in southern British Columbia runs from Vancouver Island to the Rockies, weaving more than 1,000 miles through seven mountain ranges. In northern British Columbia, the trail follows the Alaska Highway for...
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Any Other Way: How Toronto Got QueerToronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches...
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Always an Adventure: An AutobiographyHugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been "in on the ground floor" of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta,...
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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates...
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National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian HistoryAs Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and...
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Halifax and TitanicThe story of Titanic's tragic sinking on April 15, 1912, has been told countless times in films and books, inscribing it into popular culture as perhaps the best-known disaster of all-time. When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax,...
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