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In the Ring with Tommy BurnsIn the Ring With Tommy Burns is the sixth book in Adam J. Pollack's heavyweight boxing champion series. It thoroughly and meticulously describes Tommy Burns' boxing career, using multiple local next-day primary sources to give the book an unparalleled accuracy and authenticity that has...
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Mexico: The Trick Is Living Here - A Guide to Live, Work, and Retire in MexicoMexico: The Trick is Living Here is a humorous guide on how to live or retire in Mexico, useful for any extended stay in Mexico. The completely updated 3rd edition includes sections on climate and staying comfortable, transportation including riding buses and driving, eating,...
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Bringing Out the Untold Life, Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant GrayCanadian Morse Code Operator Chronicles Nine Decades In Historic Cape Breton Fishing Village. Mildred Gray is acknowledged as the last surviving government-employed Morse Code operator and one of the last surviving manual switchboard operators in the Canadian Maritime provinces. Between the 1940s through the...
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They Never Surrendered, The Lakota Sioux Band That Stayed in CanadaAfter the defeat of Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June, 1876; thousands of Lakota Sioux went to Canada to escape the American army. Their leaders included Sitting Bull, Four Horns and the two famous Lakota chiefs with the name "Black...
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They Never Surrendered, The Lakota Sioux Band That Stayed in CanadaAfter the defeat of Custer in June, 1876, thousands of Lakota Sioux went to Canada to escape the American army. While returned to American reservations within five years, 250 stayed in Canada where their descendants live today.Author: Ron PapandreaPublisher: Ron PapandreaPublished: 12/03/2012Pages: 180Binding Type:...
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Geo-Mexico, the geography and dynamics of modern MexicoGeo-Mexico provides a lively, up-to-date and comprehensive exploration of Mexico, from climates to culture, population to politics, ecosystems to economy, transport to tourism, and globalization to gated communities.Key features: - assesses Mexico's success in meeting its demographic, economic and environmental challenges - traces the...
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Casa Dos Cisnes - A Colonial Mexican Home Reimagined For Modern LivingCASA DOS CISNES - A Colonial Mexican Home Reimagined For Modern LivingCasa Dos Cisnes - A Colonial Mexican Home Reimagined For Modern Living features stunning color photos of this beautiful luxury villa, combined with an overview of it's architectural creation including detailed artistic depictions...
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Chester Bear, Where Are You?It's bedtime and young Kyle can't find his fiend and protector, Chester Bear Who will protect him through the night? Author: Peter EyvindsonPublisher: Pemmican PublicationsPublished: 08/24/2015Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.02h x 7.99w x 0.11dISBN: 9780921827085Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorEyvindson, Peter: - Peter Eyvindson
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Birth of NanaboshoThe first title in the series shows how Nanabosho came to earth to teach respect for all living things. Author: Joe McLellanPublisher: Pemmican PublicationsPublished: 06/09/2016Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 9.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9780921827009Audience: Ages 4-8About the AuthorMcLellan, Joe: - Joe MclellanThis title is...
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Greenbank: In the Country of the PastWinner: Canadian Historical Association - Best Regional History, 1988Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of...
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The Inscriptions of Calakmul: Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche, Mexicovolume 21Calakmul is a large Maya site in the Yucat n Peninsula of southern Mexico, just north of Tikal and the Guatemala border. In the 1980s, Joyce Marcus sketched and photographed the inscriptions on the monuments of Calakmul, in an effort to understand the nature...
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Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, ChiapasIn many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of...
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On Thin IceAlberta Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year winner 2007 White Ravens: International Youth Library selection of outstanding books, 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards Honorable Mention - Young Adult Fiction 2006 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007 Ashley Anowiak is in...
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Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of EnlightenmentAs the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten...
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Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human SpiritDenied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin--the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity, thereby becoming, in her words, fully...
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Fortune, My Foe and Eros at BreakfastRobertson Davies has been called the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period. These two plays from the 1940s prove that great writing and important themes never go out of style.Author: Robertson DaviesPublisher: Dundurn GroupPublished: 09/01/1993Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations SurvivalPrice Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations at the same time that it addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular...
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Coast Salish EssaysWayne Suttles has devoted much of his professional life to research on the cultures of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, especially the Coast Salish of the Georgia Strait-Puget Sound Basin. Born and raised in this region, he has been guided by a...
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The Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical DramaIn August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, Berlin had become Kitchener. It began with the...
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The Mummer's Song [With CD (Audio)]New edition with CD! On a cold, clear Newfoundland night shortly after Christmas, several outlandishly costumed mummers appear, and Granny's house suddenly erupts in a burst of joking and tomfoolery, raucous singing and exuberant dancing. Granny and her two young charges are instantly caught...
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