North America local history
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The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel De Champlain, 1604-1616; Volume 2This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Ultimate Travel Guide to Newfoundland & LabradorDiscover the Untamed Beauty of Newfoundland and Labrador!Embark on an unforgettable journey through the rugged landscapes, charming towns, and rich cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador. This comprehensive travel guide is your passport to an immersive exploration of one of Canada's most captivating regions....
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The Education of Aubrey McKeeA young writer finds his way in and out of love in the late twentieth century.The scene is Toronto, early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake....
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Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912In the mid 1840s, fifty years after first contact with Europeans, the Songhees people agreed to amalgamate on a reserve across the harbour from the newly built Fort Victoria. Grant Keddie tells the story of the old Songhees Reserve through the eyes of outsiders,...
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Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge ClubThis book invites you to curl up beside the fire and journey to a time when Montrealers skied down Peel Street and the Laurentians were "the wild west" of Quebec. For two expatriate Torontonians, Neil and Catharine McKenty, this journey begins at the Laurentian...
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MMM... Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We EatA tasty oral history In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truck into a mobile oral history lab. Together they embarked on a journey around Manitoba, gathering stories about the province's food and the people who make,...
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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called MexicoAt once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of...
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Halifax Harbour 123 (Bb)Halifax's busy and beautiful harbour is on display in this new counting book from bestselling illustrator Yolanda Poplawska. Young readers can search out one lighthouse, two bridges, three ferries--all the way up to ten! With tugboats, container ships, starfish, and dolphins on display in...
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Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada's Foreign RelationsFriends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the leading political and military historians in the country. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the early 2000s and...
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Flowers of Heaven: A Family's Story of Love and Loss on Colpoy's BayA biography about a soon-to-be divorced wife and mother of two in 1941 who commits suicide in Colpoy's Bay, Ontario. With compelling storytelling and meticulous research, the history of women's roles and rights in family, divorce, mental health, and society in mid-twentieth-century Canada comes...
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Finding Larkspur: A Return to Village LifeBestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today's Canadian small town. Modern literature has not been kind to village life. For almost two centuries, small...
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Day of the Dead: A Celebration of LifeHonor and remember loved ones on the Day of the Dead with this beautifully illustrated Little Golden Book about the holiday. Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos in Spanish, is a happy celebration. The Mexican holiday is a time to welcome back...
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Voyage of the Dreamspeaker: Vancouver-Desolation Sound Cruising HighlightsIts maze of inlets, islands, sandy shores and rocky shoals gives the British Columbia coast some of the best cruising in the world--19,000 kilometres of spectacular coastline. So it's no surprise that boaters flock here from around the world. Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones first...
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Uncommon Weather: Alaska StoriesUncommon Weather is an eclectic mix of character-driven stories that delivers a panoramic picture of Alaska-- from the cold city streets of Anchorage to picturesque but emotionally treacherous small Alaska towns; from the rough-and-tumble commercial fishing world of the distant Aleutian Islands to a...
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The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore: An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in CanadaBrown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use. Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up....
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Starry Nights in MexicoWhen Ali's directionally challenged mom surprises her with a holiday road trip to Mexico she can't help but think she'll be missing out on loads of fun. She's never met this side of the family, and driving in the opposite direction of snowball fights...
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Pathfinder: His priority of getting to WW2 became bringing everyone homeIn the spring of 1940, on a path barely lit by a thin, crescent moon, a schoolteacher with a hard-held dream sets out on a sixteen-mile trek through Ontario bush. Arriving in time to catch the midnight train, he settles in for the ride...
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Passage to Alaska: Sea Kayaking Through the Inside Passage of BC and Southeast AlaskaA thrilling account of two friends kayaking 1,000 mikes though the Inside Passage of BC and southeast Alaska. This is a story of exploration and adventure, with rough seas, calving glaciers, bear encounters and persistently bad weather. But equally enjoyable is the story of...
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Mangilaluk: A Graphic Memoir about Friendship, Perseverance, and Resiliency"Some children are born into the world and are home as soon as they come Earthside. Others spend their lifetimes searching for a home, a place to belong, a place where they are safe. I am one of those children." After running away from...
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Lost in the City: Tree of Desire and Serafin: Two novels by Ignacio SolaresCristina, the young protagonist of Tree of Desire, and her little brother Joaquín run away from a home that is outwardly normal, but inwardly disfunctional. Lost on the streets of Mexico City, they confront some of the most terrifying aspects of city life. Or...
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