North America local history
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Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo2016 Speaker's Book Award -- Shortlisted2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award -- NominatedAn account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What...
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Cherry Blossom BaseballCCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) -- Commended Is pretending to be someone else the only way Michiko can fit in? Michiko Minigawa's life is nothing but a bad game of baseball. The Canadian government swung the bat once, knocking her...
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The Great Escape: The Untold Story2014 Libris Award -- Joint Winner, Non-Fiction Book of the YearGlobe and Mail BestsellerToronto Star Bestseller A unique retelling of WWII's most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled...
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Forced to Change: Crisis and Reform in the Canadian Armed ForcesUndeniably, the 1990s were a period of crisis for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drastic budget reductions and a series of endless scandals all collided to form the perfect storm. The outcome of this was nothing short of the implosion of the Canadian Armed...
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Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the NorthPolar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond. "They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own -- were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but,...
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The Ashes of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, August 1814-March 1815The end of the War of 1812 brought with it great political, economic, and social upheaval. The sixth and final book of the Upper Canada Preserved -- War of 1812 series, The Ashes of War examines in detail the closing stages of the war...
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Driv'n by Fortune: The Scots' March to Modernity in America, 1745-1812A provocative account of the 78th Fraser's Highlanders and its crucial place in history. The remarkable story of the men of the 78th Fraser's Highlanders moves from the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, through the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, to the...
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Ignored But Not Forgotten: Canada's English ImmigrantsThe story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail. Ignored but Not Forgotten is a compelling and moving account of one of Canada's foremost immigrant groups: the story of the great migration of English people to Canada that peaked...
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The Flames of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, July--December 1813The third in a series of unique surveys of the battles in the War of 1812. In April 1813 the Americans launched a new campaign to conquer Upper Canada, after their failure to do so in 1812. However, following initial victories, the U.S. assault...
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The Boy from Left FieldWhen Hawk's baseball coach tells him how Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run nearby, the question arises: what happened to the baseball? Bullies, baseball, and kids who defy the odds. Hawk, a poor, half-Native boy who lives on the street, is eager...
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Oak Island and Its Lost TreasureOak Island poses two different challenges for these treasure seekers. First, there is a deep mine shaft -- the Money Pit -- at the bottom of which the treasure lies. This book offers evidence that this treasure came from the wreck of a seventeenth-century...
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Hanté La Maison D'à CôtéSee below for English description.Ayant grandi à la campagne, avec des bois à explorer et des lacs dans lesquels nager, Mathieu n'est pas enchanté quand ses parents déménagent leur famille dans un nouveau quartier de maisons à l'emporte-pièce situé à une heure de Toronto....
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Quand j'Avais Huit ANSSee below for English description.Une adaptation du roman à succès Les bas du pensionnat pour les lecteurs débutants!Olemaun a huit ans et elle sait beaucoup de choses. Mais elle ne sait pas lire. Faisant fi des avertissements de son père, elle effectue un long...
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Canada En Vedette: 100 Faits SurprenantsSee below for English description. Qu'est-ce qui rend le Canada unique? Beaucoup de choses Pr?parez-vous ? c?l?brer le Canada et ? impressionner famille et amis avec ce livre qui vous fera d?couvrir 100 faits surprenants sur ce pays. Cet ouvrage, divis? en chapitres, relate...
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Titanic: N? 3 - SOSLa conclusion haletante de cette grande aventure sur le navire condamn?, men?e de main de ma?tre par Gordon Korman. Le Titanic ?tait cens? ?tre insubmersible: il est le plus grand navire de passagers au monde, l'un des plus imposants et des plus luxueux ?...
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Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948War crimes prosecutions create unique difficulties as civilian standards of law are applied to the extraordinary circumstances of war. Governments are often surprisingly hesitant to pursue war criminals. Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of such issues in Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgements,...
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Northern Star: J.S. PlaskettJohn Stanley Plaskett was Canada's pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science....
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Tracing Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the BeothukThe supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and...
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Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a...
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Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers...
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