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Bullets, Bombs, and BayonetsBullets, Bombs, and Bayonets draws attention to a significant part of Canadian military history, a period in which almost an entire generation of young men never returned from the battlefields of Europe. In 2017 Canada commemorates the 100th year of the Battle of Vimy...
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Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial...
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La Petite Voyageuse: Une Petite Fille Découvre l'Histoire des MétisUne jeune fille curieuse demande à sa grand-mère de lui raconter une histoire sur ses ancêtres Métis avant d'aller au lit. À travers cette histoire, elle vivra une grande aventure et voyagera dans le temps. Dans son rêve, elle découvre les traditions métisses et...
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Diamond Gods Of the Morning Sun: The Vancouver Asahi Baseball StoryThis is the story of the Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball team that was formed in 1914 and competed in Vancouver's Caucasian leagues between 1918 and 1941. Using a strategy called "brain ball," the smaller Japanese defeated the larger white teams and won a...
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Limerick Township and Area History BitsOur book is not meant to capture an all-inclusive history; rather, it strives to preserve some of our heritage. Dependent on contributors, it is therefore, like a potlatch or patchwork quilt. We retell their stories before they are lost to memory. We acknowledge our...
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North of the Soo: Wilderness Adventure StoriesThe stories in this book are all based on real-life experiences. They often involve events ranging from frigid winter excursions to canoeing life threatening river rapids in the wilds north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Come and join the author, his wife, and...
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Toronto's Lost VillagesExplore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto's relentless growth. Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada's largest and most diverse...
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Masters of the Air: The Great War Pilots McLeod, McKeever, and MacLarenA fascinating look at three of the greatest Canadian pilots in the First World War. Alan McLeod, from Stonewall, Manitoba; Andrew McKeever, from Listowel, Ontario; and Donald MacLaren, originally from Calgary, Alberta, were daring and talented pilots. Although decidedly different from each other --...
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The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert HistoryA visual tour de force showcasing Toronto's vast concert history."Not sure there's ever been anything like this...The graphics are fascinating, the script is comprehensive. It's staggering what's been unleashed from the Vault." -- Gary Topp, promoter, half of the legendary duo the Garys"These pages...
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The Man with the Black Valise: Tracking the Killer of Jessie KeithThe story of one of the vilest murders in Canadian history. One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the government called...
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Eerie EdmontonAn exploration of the spooky side of Edmonton. Full of ghosts and strange sights, Edmonton is a place rich in the paranormal. Or is it? Are there really spirits that lurk around Fort Edmonton and the provincial legislature? Do ghosts really haunt the halls...
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The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks OutWinner of the 2020 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in NonfictionA memoir from the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada.Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave...
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Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament HillAn intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own. The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42 elections in the past...
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Riding Into Battle: Canadian Cyclists in the Great WarThe untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War. Canada's Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the...
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White Jade TigerOn a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s.1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize -- Winner1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award -- Runner-up1995 Silver Birch Award -- ShortlistedCCBC's Best...
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Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917Embattled Nation explores Canada's tumultuous wartime election of 1917 and the people and issues that made it a pivotal moment in Canadian history.Embattled Nation explores the drama of Canada's tumultuous election of 1917. In the context of the bloody battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill...
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Charlie Red Star: True Reports of One of North America's Biggest UFO SightingsA wave of UFO sightings struck southern Manitoba in 1975, with possible connections to U.S. missile defense operations. In 1975, Manitobans reported UFOs over their province almost nightly. The string of unprecedented sightings launched the biggest UFO craze in Canadian history. With sightings for...
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Algonquin Sunset: An Algonquin Quest NovelAnokì and his sister Pangì Mahingan have grown up, and now face a decision that will change their lives forever.Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as Ö nenhste Erhar (Corn Dog), we rejoin his family...
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Written in the Ruins: Cape Breton Island's Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award -- Shortlisted Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans. From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area...
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Unbuilt HamiltonFinalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Marvel at...
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