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See You Next Summer: Postcard Memories of Sparrow LakeBustling station platforms, with quaint steamers nearby, often appear on early Sparrow Lake postcards. It was at the station that rail passengers were met and taken by boat to one of the over 20 hotels that once flourished in this holiday area. Such a...
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Popular Wildflowers of the Canadian PrairiesA full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify the flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors on the Canadian Prairies during the usual blooming season.Author: Neil L. JenningsPublisher: Rocky Mountain Books...
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John Schreiner's BC Coastal Wine Tour: The Wineries of the Fraser Valley Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and the Gulf IslandsThere is no doubt that the wine industry is undergoing an incredible boom in British Columbia. And not all of the award-winning wineries are in the Okanagan Valley -- the Fraser Valley, Metro Vancouver, and Vancouver Island are fast becoming just as reputable for...
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Shipwrecks & Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward IslandIn the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea. From the first explorers to immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone--many lost to the relentless ocean....
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The Beach: An Illustrated History from the Lake to Kingston RoadGlenn and Jean Cochrane have lived in Toronto's Beach area for thirty-eight years - which sounds like a lifetime but really leaves them as relative newcomers. Like many of the area's residents, the Cochranes are convinced that once someone moves to the Beach, they'll...
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Suliewey: The Sequel to My IndianAward recognition for My Indian ***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD - LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA - SILVER*** Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian...
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Indomitable Canadian FilipinosIn the 70- year history of Filipino migration to Canada, their number has increased from 770 in 1964 to about a million in 2021. Yet no book has been written and published in Canada about the Filipino community in its entirety. This book fills...
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Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest: Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez's Revolutionary ChurchMexico's Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood pícaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, "Patriarch" Joaquín Pérez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Pérez's controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century...
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Thirty Talks Weird LoveRISE: A Feminist Book Project, American Library Association (ALA)A 13-year-old girl growing up in Mexico is visited by her 30-year-old future self in this powerful YA novel in verse about handling depression.Out of nowhere, a lady comes up to Anamaria and says she's her,...
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The Resilient Shinai - A History of Kendo in CanadaHirokazu Okusa details the captivating history of kendo in Canada in The Resilient Shinai. Kendo, a Japanese martial art with roots in the ancient sword fighting techniques of the samurai, was brought to Canada by industrious Japanese immigrants looking for a better life.The Resilient...
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A Wilderness of WaterIn 1963, just before Christmas, two young men set off in their fishing boat in hopes of getting one more good haul of fish before the weather gets bad. They sail off into the stormy waters of St. Mary's Bay, off southwest Nova Scotia...and...
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Un Regalo Para NiñaIn her first book for children, Cecilia Ruiz illuminates how things can change--and the importance of holding on to our dearest relationships when they do. The first time Abuela holds Niña, her heart overflows with tenderness. And as Niña grows up, she and Abuela...
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Gold Diggers of the Klondike: Prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898-1908Gold Diggers of the Klondike explores beyond the myths of the dance-hall girls and prostitutes of the Klondike gold rush, and uncovers the stories of the women who "mined the miners." In chronicling prostitution in Dawson city during the height and the decline of...
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Oak Island and the Search for the Buried TreasureAre Shakespeare's lost manuscripts buried deep in the notorious Money Pit? Do booby traps conceal the Holy Grail of the Knights Templar or Blackbeard's pirate loot? The mystery of Oak Island's rumoured treasure has stumped explorers and researchers for over two hundred years. In...
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Secret Mexico CityThe forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier...
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The Little Tree by the Sea: From Halifax to Boston with LoveOn December 6, 1917, two tramp steamers, the Mont-Blanc and the Imo, collided in wartime Halifax Harbour. Steel grating on steel caused sparks to fly creating what became the largest man-made explosion of its time. More than 2000 people died (500 of those children)...
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Tommy's Team: The People Behind the Douglas YearsIn 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...
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Mud, Sweat, and Gears: A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven WheelsMud, Sweat, and Gears is not only an incredible human-powered journey, but it's also about the intricate, poignant, and often hilarious family dynamics that result. The Metal Cowboy's most compelling book yet.--Heidi Swift, The OregonianThis time the Metal Cowboy sets off to bicycle across...
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Lo Que Le Contó El Jaguar: (What the Jaguar Told Her Spanish Edition)Jade is starting eighth grade in a new city--Atlanta. She just wants to go back to Chicago, where her friends are. Where her Abuela lives. But Jade does like walking to her new school on the trail that winds through the woods behind her...
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Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy, 85: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize" Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home...
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