North America local history
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Your Passport to CanadaWhat is it like to live in or visit Canada? What makes Canada's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Canadians.Author: Pascale DuguayPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781669058335Audience: Ages 9-12
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The Soo Line's Famous Trains to CanadaThe Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada-USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to...
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in CanadaIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million and about 30,000 black...
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The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800-1834One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century--separated from his family, community, and language--finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay....
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Taming the Divine HeronThe second novel in Pitol's Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic translated by George Henson. Taming the Divine Heron tells the semi-autobiographical story of a novelist working on...
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Pocket Vancouver 5Lonely Planet's Pocket Vancouver is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighborhood by neighborhood. STest your nerve on the Capilano Suspension Bridge, feed your curiosity at Science World and stroll through South Granville; all with your trusted travel companion;...
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Ottawa's Caribbean Community since 1955: History and ProfilesThe Caribbean. Images of white sandy beaches, blue skies, palm trees, warm temperatures year-round, places of leisure and fun, and pulsating rhythms of reggae and soca music, radiate throughout each island in the Caribbean Sea. Contrast this with Canada, more specifically Ottawa, one of...
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Oak Island Odyssey: A Masonic QuestA compelling case for the connection between Freemasonry and the notorious Oak Island treasure, written by a historian and Curse of Oak Island guest expert. If you think you know everything about the secrets of Oak Island, think again. Oak Island: A Masonic Quest...
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MaldadEn su esfuerzo por encontrar el origen de la maldad, Tomé Bata, un periodista novato de nota roja, termina por vivirla en carne propia. De manera ágil y profunda, Marisela Aguilar S. construye una historia en la que sus personajes experimentan la injusticia y...
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La Ciudad Que YA No ExisteEste es un paseo por la ciudad de nuestros antepasados, de nuestros abuelos y padres, la que hoy buscamos heredar a nuestros hijos y nietos. La Ciudad de México está destinada a preservar su memoria hasta la consumación de los tiempos . Alejandro Rosas....
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If You're Not from the PrairieA boy provides a look at life on the prairies of North America and describes the effects of the climate on the people in the heartland of the continent.Author: David BouchardPublisher: Raincoast BooksPublished: 05/06/2002Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.52h x 10.35w x 0.42dISBN: 9781895714661Audience:...
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If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Maple Leafs: Stories from the Toronto Maple Leafs Ice, Locker Room, and Press BoxChronicling the Maple Leafs for 35 years, longtime Toronto Sun beat reporter Lance Hornby provides access into the Maple Leafs' inner sanctum as only he can. From the heyday of the 1940s when Toronto won five Stanley Cups in Maple Leaf Gardens to the...
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Histoire de l'Acadie - Tome 2: 1710-1763: De la fondation aux déportationsL'auteur trace les grandes lignes de l'histoire acadienne en cinq p riodes importantes, r parties en deux tomes. Dans le premier tome, il couvre la p riode de 1604 1710. Dans ce deuxi me tome, l'auteur met en lumi re la p riode de...
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Hasta No Verte Jesús MíoÉsta es la tercera vez que Jesusa Palancares regresa a la Tierra, pero nunca había sufrido tanto como en esta reencarnación. Lleva el aire del camposanto en sus ojos desde que muy pequeña perdiera a su madre y soporta una existencia exculpando pecados de...
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Garden Design for the Short Season Yard: Everything You Need to Know for the Chinook and Canadian Prairie ZonesThe only garden design book written just for the Canadian prairies Tired of advice for gorgeous yards that can only be created in climates like California, southern Ontario or Victoria? Author Lyndon Penner wrote Garden Design for the Short Season Yard for you, because...
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FuryIn this debut novel, Clyo Mendoza, a young, award-winning Mexican poet and novelist, weaves together multiple narratives into a lyrical, shape-shifting existential reflection on love, violence, and the power of myth. "Fury has the poetic and wild force of the desert. In its pages...
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Carolina Grau (Spanish Edition)A través de nueve cuentos, el gran autor Carlos Fuentes juega con el lector y le invita a que se cuestione si lo que lee es un sueño o realidad. Del autor de Aura, La Silla del Águila, La región más transparente y La...
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A Brush Full of Colour: The World of Ted HarrisonThe true story of how a boy's passion for learning saved him from a life in England's coal mines and led him to a career as an internationally acclaimed artist and illustrator, famed for his images of Canada's north. Includes full-colour reproductions of Ted...
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian's WWII Memoir"We Lived in Danger" is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of the World War II era. "Vic's" formative years in Big Sky country, and his...
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The Scarf and the Butterfly: A Graphic Memoir of Hope and Healing"'There's an opening above me, but it's far, and I have to stack up rocks to jump up, and it's almost impossible to get out.' That's when I realized that I was stripped of my identity, and there was nothing of my culture left...
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