North America local history
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Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2,500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5The story of Bishop's journey in a 58-pound paper canoe in the 1870s.Author: Nathaniel Holmes BishopPublisher: Stackpole BooksPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 278Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65dISBN: 9781589761100
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El Rondín: Campaigns of Colonel Toribio Ortega and Colonel José de la Cruz Sánchez in the Revolution of 1912 / Campañas del coronEsteban Luj n's EL ROND N is a first person account of General Pasqual Orozco, Jr.'s 1912 uprising in Chihuahua, Mexico and one of the earliest written documents about this important period of the Mexican Revolution. Translated into English by Esteban Luj n's great...
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Soldier Princess: The Life and Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861-1867Beautiful and brave, outlandish and unconventional, Princess Agnes SalmSalm played a sometimes controversial, often conspicuous, and always colorful role in three of the nineteenth century's major events: the American Civil War, the fall of Maximilian's empire in Mexico, and the FrancoPrussian War. During the...
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Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North America Discovery 1500-1685Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the Pinta spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. From that moment Spain embarked upon an age of discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World virtually unchallenged until...
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Explorer's Guide Victoria & Vancouver Island: A Great DestinationMore than a million people visit Vancouver Island by air and sea each year, three quarters of them from outside Canada. Besides detailed coverage of Victoria, Eric Lucas gives wide-ranging context to the island's culture, cuisine, and arts. There's also a wealth of practical...
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Trace Elements of Random Tea PartiesThis fiction debut is a warm tale of 'princess dyke' life in L.A. What they lack in resources, they make up for in their celebration of familia, love and unapologetic sexual configurations (Ana Castillo).Author: Felicia Luna LemusPublisher: Seal Press (CA)Published: 08/01/2004Pages: 247Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Acadians: Their Deportation and WanderingsThe true tale behind the tragic poem is revealed.On September 5, 1755, the British declared that all Acadians were to be expelled from their homeland of Nova Scotia. The Acadians were forcibly removed from their homes and deported. They wandered for decades, searching for...
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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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