Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Before We Lost the Lake: A Natural and Human History of Sumas Valley
$24.95 Read moreFor thousands of years, the broad expanse between Sumas and Vedder Mountains east of Vancouver lay under water, forming the bed of Sumas Lake. As recently as a century ago, the lake’s shores stood fou
- Author: Reimer, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1987915585
- Language: English
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Vimy
$20.00 Read moreOne chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in … [more below]
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0385658427
- Language: English
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O Canada: An American’s Notes on Canadian Culture
$21.00 Add to cartThe esteemed American literary critic Edmund Wilson in depth study of Canadian literature, O Canada.
O Canada is made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, mostly contemporary. It represents pe- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0374505160
- Language: English
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Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Volume 103
$45.95 Read more“Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what’s in the sky for strength, what’s in the water … the land, body parts. Every na… [more below]
- Series: McGill-Queen’s Indigenous and Northern Studies
- Author: Payne, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0228011051
- Language: English
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Outside the Gate: The True Story of a British Home Child in Canada
$24.95 Read moreBetween 1869 and 1948, Britain sent more than 100,000 “home children ” to Canada to work as indentured farmers and domestics. They were promised a bright future in the land of opportunity, and some ma… [more below]
- Author: Newall, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1988025826
- Language: English
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Kitchener (Berlin) 1880-1960
$24.99 Read moreKitchener, Ontario, is a community with two histories. As Berlin, it was a rapidly growing and prosperous town reveling in its Germanic heritage. After dramatic civic upheavals from 1915 to 1919, it e… [more below]
- Series: Image of Canada
- Author: Mills, Rych
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 03 2002
- ISBN10: 073851151X
- Language: English
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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
$31.95 Add to cartDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity.
- Author: LeRoux, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0887558461
- Language: English
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None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
$53.27 Add to cartToday, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looki
- Author: Abella, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1487554389
- Language: English
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Two Crows Sorrow: Love and Death on the North Mountain
$22.95 Add to cartTiny Burlington, tucked away on the slopes of Nova Scotia’s North Mountain. In 1904 it was home to hardworking farmers, complicated family dynamics, passionate lovers, and a murderer.
Laura Churchill D
- Author: Churchill Duke, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1999140540
- Language: English
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
$29.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it
Foreword by Anne Murray
They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine
- Author: Cuthbertson, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 144346791X
- Language: English
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Reluctant Pioneer: How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
$24.99 Add to cartIn the 1870s in Ontario’s Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the Uni… [more below]
- Author: Osborne, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1926577167
- Language: English
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Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1900, Sudbury was a small town with a population of about 2,000. Now, it is the largest city in northeastern Ontario.
- Author: Wallace, C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 1996
- ISBN10: 1550021702
- Language: English
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On Cold Iron: A Story of Hubris and the 1907 Quebec Bridge Collapse
$19.99 Add to cartWhen engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high stand… [more below]
- Author: LeVert, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1525562215
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
$21.95 Add to cartHistory has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Klondike Gold Rush of North America-the prostitutes and other “disreputable” women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming go
- Author: Morgan, Lael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0945397763
- Language: English
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
$16.95 Read moreIn the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of … [more below]
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 385658419
- Language: English
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The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
$34.00 Read moreINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each- Author: Ibbitson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0771003269
- Language: English
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The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
$19.99 Add to cartThe True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced
- Author: DeFede, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063005980
- Language: English
