North America local history
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Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial BridgeWinner of the Lieutenant-Governor MedalOn June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of the two broken spans...
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Desolation Sound: A HistoryBeautiful Desolation Sound, 150 km north of Vancouver, has for many years been the most popular cruising destination on the BC coast, but is today almost as devoid of local occupants as it was in 1792 when the dyspeptic Captain George Vancouver gave it...
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The Golden Dream: A History of the St. Lawrence SeawayIn the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States...
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Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in CanadaDancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six...
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LeasideLeaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community. Named after John Lea, a successful farmer, whose house, built in 1829, is believed to be the first brick...
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Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have BeenUnbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the city's founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as...
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Three Million Acres of FlameCommended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens For Skye Haverill and her family, it begins as an ordinary day. But in the annals of Canadian history, October 7, 1825, is the date of one of our greatest national disasters. The Haverill...
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After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 1773-1852This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the Hector in 1773, with nearly 200 Scottish passengers, sparked a huge influx of Scots to...
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Running with Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian OutlawsThis book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and...
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Oak Island Obsession: The Restall StoryAs Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act. In reality they were Bob and Mildred Restall, parents of three, who balanced their glamorous show-business career with a happy, stable home life. In October 1959, the Restalls embarked on the...
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The War of 1812: The War That Both Sides WonTragedy and farce, bravery and cowardice, intelligence and foolishness, sense and nonsense - all these contradictions and more have characterized the War of 1812. The real significance of the series of skirmishes that collectively made up the war between 1812 and 1814 is the...
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Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised EditionWomen in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out doing their bit for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, to free a man to...
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Operation Friction 1990-1991: The Canadian Forces in the Persian GulfThis official account of the crisis in the Persian Gulf traces the Canadian Forces commitment to the Gulf region in response to Iraqi aggression in 1990-1991. Written by two officers who served in the Persian Gulf during the period of hostilities in 1991, this...
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I Remember Sunnyside: The Rise & Fall of a Magical EraFirst published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today. Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening days in the early 1920s...
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Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional CapitalAt the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now,...
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Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First NationsAboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume review the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well...
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Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World WarFirst published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War and of the war's effect on Canada's evolution. This revised edition incorporates new information, particularly in the realms of intelligence and cipher, allowing new interpretations of policies and...
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History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634The discovery of the river St. Lawrence, and of the great lakes which pour their superabundant waters through it into the gulf, was not the least in importance of the events which signalized the opening of the history of the New World. The credit...
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La Llorona: The Legendary Weeping Woman of MexicoThe ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwestern United States have claimed to hear her wailing in the night, crying out for her drowned children. This centuries-old...
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The Big Book on Native American Truths: Tribes and Their Ways of Life Children's Geography & Cultures BooksThe world has not been fair to the Native Americans, to the extent that they were treated with violence. But the blood in their past only fueled the passion to show the world that they could be so much more. This book is a...
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