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Canada [Map Pack Bundle]- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Travel MapThe National Geographic Adventure Canada Map Pack is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to travel in Canada. The Map Pack includes three Adventure maps that cover almost all of inhabited Canada. From the rugged mountains of...
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A Traveller's History of CanadaA Traveller's History of Canada gives a comprehensive survey of the country's past from the earliest times right through to the present. It begins with the first immigrants to arrive well over 15,000 years ago who traveled across a land bridge from Siberia to...
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Newmarket: The Heart of York RegionIn the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders. It soon became the commercial hub of a rich farming area. By the mid-1800s it...
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TornStill reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson's ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they've lost the real John Hudson, and they...
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MukbangKim Delorme is uninterested in the world beyond her computer screen, instead living on a diet of video games, early 2000s Internet videos, and fads. It's not long before she discovers mukbangs, a voyeuristic world where people overeat in front of the camera. Intrigued,...
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Canadian Military Intelligence: Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in AfghanistanThe most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operationsCanadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Canadian Military Intelligence: Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan...
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Black Around the EyesDiamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. Black Around the Eyes evokes the men and women, the joys and grief, the stark beauty and harsh struggles of that time and...
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The Little GirlWhen the little girl arrives at her new home, the guard at the border takes away a little piece of her name. Then the teacher at her new school takes away the rest. This new home is beautiful, but it's also scary. She must...
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The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899Catch gold fever with this comprehensive collection of archival photographs. This is the mother lode of the north - a stunning record of the last great gold rush. With 125 extraordinary images along with fascinating anecdotes and personal accounts, this book reveals the arduous...
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White FangThis edition of Jack London's classic adventure novel White Fang--made into a major motion picture featuring Ethan Hawke--includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Dwight V. Swain. He was three quarters wolf and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, in the...
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Great Heart: The History of a Labrador AdventureIn July 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace, his best friend, and George Elson, a M tis guide. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster and the party was...
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The Bounty HuntersDavid Flynn is a legend in the rugged Arizona Territory--a U.S. cavalry turned army scout and the only man alive who can bring in the fierce Apache renegade Soldado Viejo. Tracking an elusive Indian with a price on his head south of the border...
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Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in MexicoAbandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García...
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Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada's Cultural DiplomacyIt is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries' rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why Brazil? And what...
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Our Fathers' Footsteps: Stories of World War 2 Veterans' What If MomentsOur Fathers' Footsteps is about four average men among the millions of people who volunteered to serve their countries during World War II. These men had one thing in common. They all landed on Normandy's beaches on June 6, 1944. Using family history books,...
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Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return MigrationMigration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and international economic integration, and it is no...
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A Seven Year AcheRosie Kelvey is a spirited and willful prairie woman of the early twentieth century whose ache to pursue her own desires goes against the harsh and limiting moral landscape of her time. She has what the neighbours teasingly call "two men on her hook"...
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The Colours of CanadaWhen Miss Onya's class has the chance to create a mosaic piece of art depicting Canada, they are each given a different tile to glue down. As they begin to place their tiles down to create Canada, they each explain how their tile reminds...
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People of the Saltwater: People of the Saltwater2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaala Nation has called the rugged north coast of British...
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A Postcard from CanadaTwins Camila and Carlos find a postcard in their mailbox from a boy in Canada, and they set off on a magical adventure to see his country.Author: Laurie FriedmanPublisher: Crabtree BlossomsPublished: 01/17/2022Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.70w x 0.30dISBN: 9781039647077Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...
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