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Canadian Girls Who Rocked the WorldTake an adventure with some of Canada's most interesting and accomplished young women. An inspiring book, Canadian Girls Who Rocked the World tells the stories of Canadian girls who won Olympic medals, discovered dinosaurs, explored their country or shaped its history -- all while...
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Trans Canada Trail: British ColumbiaA spectacular journey through the heart of British Columbia. The Trans Canada Trail in southern British Columbia runs from Vancouver Island to the Rockies, weaving more than 1,000 miles through seven mountain ranges. In northern British Columbia, the trail follows the Alaska Highway for...
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Any Other Way: How Toronto Got QueerToronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches...
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Always an Adventure: An AutobiographyHugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been "in on the ground floor" of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta,...
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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates...
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National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian HistoryAs Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and...
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Halifax and TitanicThe story of Titanic's tragic sinking on April 15, 1912, has been told countless times in films and books, inscribing it into popular culture as perhaps the best-known disaster of all-time. When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax,...
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Alpine PathLucy Maud Montgomery, the creator of Anne of Green Gables and many other popular children's stories penned this memoir during World War I and it is often considered the best account of her childhood on Prince Edward Island and her first years as a...
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Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois: Champlain Explores America 1603-1616"If we compare him with the other explorers and founders of that age he stands above them all in the range of achievement" -Edward Gaylord Bourne, Introduction As the first explorer to provide an accurate and detailed account of Nova Scotia and New England,...
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Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate: A History of the Roman Catholic Church in NewfoundlandHow did a Catholic bishop stop the riot of 1861? Which British monarch physically assaulted a priest in St. John's? What ancient relics are kept at the Basilica? Did a British princess help build Newfoundland's greatest Catholic church? By mining Newfoundland's history and folklore,...
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Life Lines: The Lanier Phillips StoryWhen the USS Truxtun was shipwrecked off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942, Lanier Phillips, an African-American serviceman, was rescued by the people of the town of St. Lawrence. The kindness he received transformed his life and ignited a lasting passion for civil rights....
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The Hope That Remains: Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan GenocideIn 1994 one of the worst genocides in human history took place in Rwanda--more than one million people were killed in 100 days. Each chapter in The Hope That Remains focuses on a Rwandan survivor and the journey to escape the violence and chaos...
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Exploring Montreal's Underground CityMontreal's fabled underground city opened fifty-five years ago. What began as a subterranean pedestrian network beneath Place Ville Marie is now an integral part of the city. Over the past decades it has developed into a parallel metropolis, an amazing labyrinth of passageways, alleys,...
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Parry Sound Logging DaysA collection of stories told by the men who worked the white pine logging camps and steam-powered mills of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Author: John MacfiePublisher: Boston Mills PressPublished: 02/01/2003Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 11.05h x 8.51w x 0.55dISBN: 9781550460551About the Author...
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A West Coast SummerTo the sea, to the sea, who or what waits here for me? Pairing two dozen of Carol Evans's wonderful watercolours with a lilting rhyming story by Caroline Woodward, A West Coast Summer tells of a timeless, idyllic season where "Sea salt in the...
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Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey Through Southern Interior British ColumbiaLike John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning--a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen...
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The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British ColumbiaThe West has long attracted visionaries and schemers from around the world. And no other region in North America can outstrip British Columbia for the number of utopian or intentional settlement attempts in the past 150 years. Andrew Scott delves into the dramatic stories...
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Soul of Wilderness: Mountain Journeys in Western BC and AlaskaLinda and I are fortunate to live near the western mountains of British Columbia, which contain some of the last wilderness areas in North America outside of the arctic. This is an area that supports grizzly bears and wolverines, where salmon run wild and...
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Tide Rips and Back Eddies: Bill Proctor's Tales of Blackfish SoundBilly Proctor, resident legend of Echo Bay, BC, recounts almost a century's worth of experience with this collection of stories, memories and local knowledge of the central BC coast region around Blackfish Sound. Situated in the beautiful Broughton Archipelago between northern Vancouver Island and...
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Milk Spills and One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck DriverFrank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the...
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