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Quebec City Travel Guide 2023 - 2024: Discover the Timeless Beauty of Quebec CityAre you ready to embark on an unforgettable adventure through the enchanting province of Quebec? Step into a world where rich history, vibrant culture, and breathtaking landscapes blend seamlessly to create an experience like no other. In this comprehensive travel guide for 2023-2024, discover...
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Where Is Niagara Falls?While traveling through Canada in 1678, a French priest came across the most gigantic waterfalls he'd ever seen. Stricken with both awe and fear, he began to shake, fell to his knees, and prayed. Ever since, people from all over the world have come...
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The Reesor Siding Tragedy: Canada's Bloodiest Labour ConflictNorthern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company and left eight wounded. In...
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The Encyclopedia of ManitobaAll aspects of the province's history, arts, politics, geography, business, and sports are explored in almost 2,000 entries and essays, each written and researched by expert Manitobans. From Cindy Klassen to K-Tel, Lord Selkirk to Louis Riel, Bothwell Cheese to Chip & Pepper. ....
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Super Deportistas Mexicanos / Mexican Super-AthletesNO NECESITAS RAYOS GAMA, EL SUERO DEL SUPERSOLDADO O UNA ARAÑA RADIOACTIVA... TÚ TAMBIÉN PUEDES SER UN SUPERHUMANO Y LLEGAR HASTA DONDE QUIERAS! Sabías que, sin tener superpoderes, puedes alcanzar metas que podrían parecer inimaginables? Lo único que requieres es ponerte un objetivo y...
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Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters from Alberta's PastA married Alberta premier, John Brownlee, lost his job after enticing a junior government clerk to have sex with him. He was fifty, she was twenty. After Canada's Supreme Court endorsed the trial jury's guilty verdict, Brownlee took the case to the British Privy...
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Ray and Yui's Montreal Adventure (레이와 유이의 몬트리올 모험): Bilingual Engl"Ray and Yui's Montreal Adventure (레이와 유이의 몬트리올 모험)" is an exciting and engaging tale that takes young readers on a captivating journey through Montreal's vibrant culture. The storybook is written in Korean and English, making it easy for children to learn English and...
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Life Among the QallunaatLife Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of...
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Hudson's Bay Company Catalogue: Autumn and Winter: 1910-1911Few Canadians have seen a Hudson's Bay Company catalogue and understandably so. The Company's Department Store mail-order business was operated only from 1881 to 1913; today copies of the original catalogue are extremely rare. The Company opened Western Canada's first department store in Winnipeg...
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How to Make Un Ami: The Story of Elliott & ÉlodieThe bilingual story of Elliott and Élodie- where the desire for friendship knows no boundaries!One day, in a cozy café, a young boy named Elliott hears another child, Élodie, speaking a language he cannot understand. Will that stop them from being friends? Mais, non!Discover...
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Historia de Nuevo México: Una guía facinante de hechos y acontecimientos históricos que debe conocer sobre la Tierra del EncantoEl hogar ancestral de los pueblo. Un vestigio del imperio español en el Nuevo Mundo. El lugar donde se detonó la primera bomba atómica. Un supuesto lugar donde se estrellaron alienígenas. Nuevo México. La tierra del encanto.Nuevo México es un estado con una historia...
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Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium CompanyOn 16 May 1930, Gilbert LaBine discovered pitchblende near the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose discovery marked the beginning of Canada's uranium industry. Robert Bothwell tells how Gilbert and Charlie...
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WitchcraftWitchcraft. The subject evokes curiosity, fascination, and sometimes, abhorrence. In the Maritimes, a region with a rich tradition of storytelling, accounts of witchcraft are abundant. In Witchcraft, folklorist Clary Croft explores the many examples of witchcraft identified in the Maritimes and explains their cultural...
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Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980 Volume 110Anderson charts the construction of Chinatown in the minds and streets of the white community of Vancouver over a hundred year period. She shows that Chinatown -- from the negative stereotyping of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to its current status as...
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The Joy of Mountains: A Step-By-Step Guide to Watercolor Painting and Sketching in Western Mountain ParksOver the past 15 years, and since the publication of her first book, A Rocky Mountain Sketchbook, well-known art instructor Donna Jo Massie has been developing her creative experiences in outdoor landscapes by traveling and painting in famously stunning locations in American mountain parks,...
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Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931The plea appeared in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking strong, energetic medical woman for country work in Canada. Doctor Mary Percy was intrigued. After graduating with degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Birmingham in 1927 she was looking...
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S Is for Shamrock: An Ireland AlphabetSmall in size (less than 400 by 200 miles) the country of Ireland holds a big place in world and human history. And many from around the globe proudly lay claim to ancestral ties there. S is for Shamrock: An Ireland Alphabet gives readers...
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Richard Scott (1777-1837) and Proclaiming the Gospel in Word and DeedThis biography chronicles the life of Baptist pastor and missionary, Richard Scott (1777-1837), from the south of England to the British North American Colonies of New Brunswick and Upper Canada, with emphasis on his work among the First Nations people through his agency with...
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Our Blessed Son of Pinedale, A Fable of Good and EvilFrom his odd, secluded mansion in New Mexico, Mr. Ben calmly goes about remaking the planet for just himself and a few others-while deep in a faraway canyon, a small, autistic boy waves an old piece of rope back and forth. Now and then,...
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Morir de Pie / Die Standing UpPor el autor de los bestsellers Yo D az e Iturbide. «Yo har que se las devuelvan , le prometi Emiliano Zapata a su padre... As iniciar a una lucha agraria que transformar a el destino de un pa s. Emiliano Zapata est dispuesto...
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