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The Wake

The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntrye ...

Narrated by Linden MacIntyre ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up
... Read more
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The Company

The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire

by Stephen R. Bown ...

Narrated by Traber Burns ...

Unabridged

16 hours 5 min

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s originsThe story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s originsThe story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured
... Read more
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The Wake

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by Linden MacIntyre ...

Narrated by Linden MacIntyre ...

Unabridged

42 min

This is a free extended preview of The Wake. The full audiobook can be found by searching the Kobo store.NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s ... Read more

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This is a free extended preview of The Wake. The full audiobook can be found by searching the Kobo store.NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s
... Read more
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A Newfoundlander in Canada

Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home

by Alan Doyle ...

Narrated by Alan Doyle ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it ... Read more

$28.00 USD

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it
... Read more
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A People's History of Quebec

by Jacques Lacoursière, Robin Philpot ...

Narrated by Matthew Josdal ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and "embrothered the peoples" they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote. Connecting everyday life to the events that ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and "embrothered the peoples" they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote. Connecting everyday life to the events that
... Read more
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Secret Treasure of Oak Island

The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt

by D'Arcy O'Connor ...

Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, and as McGinnis and two friends started to dig, they found what turned out to be an elaborately ... Read more

$24.99 USD

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, and as McGinnis and two friends started to dig, they found what turned out to be an elaborately
... Read more
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Vanished Beyond the Map

The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell

by Adam Shoalts ...

Narrated by Adam Shoalts ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared. ... Read more

$27.00 USD

Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared.
... Read more
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The Toronto Book of the Dead

by Adam Bunch ...

Narrated by Adam Bunch ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto
... Read more
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Rough & Messy Justice

A Train Heist, Murder & Misdeeds

by W. Keith Regular, PhD ...

Narrated by Lorene Shyba ...

Series series True Cases
Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

Rough & Messy Justice vividly portrays Alberta's Crowsnest Pass of 1920, a rugged Rocky Mountain region shaped by its mining economy and diverse culture. An armed CPR train robbery spirals into a deadly shootout at the Bellevue Café, where police clash with Russian outlaws fresh from Montana’s mines. A surviving bandit escapes, triggering a relentless manhunt. When captured, his trial becomes a ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Rough & Messy Justice vividly portrays Alberta's Crowsnest Pass of 1920, a rugged Rocky Mountain region shaped by its mining economy and diverse culture. An armed CPR train robbery spirals into a deadly shootout at the Bellevue Café, where police clash with Russian outlaws fresh from Montana’s mines. A surviving bandit escapes, triggering a relentless manhunt. When captured, his trial becomes a
... Read more
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Them Days 1.4

by N. Markham, Bill Shiwak, Michael Pasteen, Wallace McLean, John Montague, Flora Baikie, Jean Crane, Judson Blake Sr., Alice Parrault, Charlie Bird, Alexander Cribb, Frank D. Moores, David Dickinson, Lillian Broomfield, W. H. Elworthy, Torsten Andersen, Alice Andersen, John Edmunds, Percy Davis, George Rich, Bill Brown, Clifford Moores, George Poole Sr., Elizabeth Goudie, Joe Jacque ...

Narrated by Aimee Chaulk, Jaimee Brown, Patty Way, Morgen Mills, Mina Campbell, Martha MacDonald, Steph White, Ida Suarak, Jill Larkham, George Way ...

Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

This issue of Them Days Magazine includes the eulogy of John A. Broomfield; stories about trapping and fishing; as well as a few unique articles such as an old Alphabet Song and excerpts from a trapper's diary. This is the final issue from Them Days' first year of publication. ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This issue of Them Days Magazine includes the eulogy of John A. Broomfield; stories about trapping and fishing; as well as a few unique articles such as an old Alphabet Song and excerpts from a trapper's diary. This is the final issue from Them Days' first year of publication.
... Read more
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Historia de Quebec: Una guía fascinante sobre la provincia más extensa de Canadá y su impacto en la historia de Francia

by Captivating History ...

Narrated by Luis Trumper ...

Unabridged

3 hours 58 min

La lucha política de Quebec por la autonomía, la independencia y la protección de su lengua, su cultura y su patrimonio está rodeada de ambigüedad. Permítanos arrojar algo de luz sobre el tema.¿Por qué se han prolongado las tensiones lingüísticas y culturales de la provincia durante casi cuatrocientos años? ¿En qué se diferencia del resto de Canadá? ¿Desempeñaron los pueblos indígenas un papel ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

La lucha política de Quebec por la autonomía, la independencia y la protección de su lengua, su cultura y su patrimonio está rodeada de ambigüedad. Permítanos arrojar algo de luz sobre el tema.¿Por qué se han prolongado las tensiones lingüísticas y culturales de la provincia durante casi cuatrocientos años? ¿En qué se diferencia del resto de Canadá? ¿Desempeñaron los pueblos indígenas un papel
... Read more
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Bloody Verrieres

The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume I: Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, July 18–22, 1944

by Arthur W. Gullachsen ...

Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 min

South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrières and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944. To capture this vital ground, Allied forces would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armored formation in Normandy: the I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte." The resulting battles of late July and early August 1944 saw powerful ... Read more

$19.99 USD

South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrières and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944. To capture this vital ground, Allied forces would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armored formation in Normandy: the I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte." The resulting battles of late July and early August 1944 saw powerful
... Read more
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Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve

by Manon Plouffe ...

Narrated by Amélie Bonenfant ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

En 1642, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve et Jeanne Mance fondent, avec une poignée de colons, le petit établissement de Ville-Marie, qui deviendra par la suite Montréal. Chomedey, né en Champagne, est un officier militaire d’expérience. Nommé gouverneur de l’île de Montréal, il est prêt à relever le défi, malgré la présence hostile des Iroquois qui n’auront de cesse d’attaquer la colonie naissante ... Read more

$7.99 USD

En 1642, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve et Jeanne Mance fondent, avec une poignée de colons, le petit établissement de Ville-Marie, qui deviendra par la suite Montréal. Chomedey, né en Champagne, est un officier militaire d’expérience. Nommé gouverneur de l’île de Montréal, il est prêt à relever le défi, malgré la présence hostile des Iroquois qui n’auront de cesse d’attaquer la colonie naissante
... Read more
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Canada: The Empire of the North (UNABRIDGED)

by Agnes C. LAUT ...

Narrated by Mallory Berkley ...

Unabridged

18 hours

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. . . . All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the country's past, and how that past led along a trail of great heroism to the destiny of a Northern Empire. This volume is in no sense formal history. There will be found in it no ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. . . . All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the country's past, and how that past led along a trail of great heroism to the destiny of a Northern Empire. This volume is in no sense formal history. There will be found in it no
... Read more
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The Day the World Came to Town

9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

by Jim DeFede ...

Narrated by Ray Porter ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and
... Read more
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A Precarious Enterprise

Making a Life in Canadian Publishing

by Scott McIntyre ...

Narrated by Peter Outerbridge ...

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min

“A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA necessary for future historians to fully understand the joyous and unexpected rodeo that was CanLit 1.0. It was a cherished window in time, and Scott tells of it with love and the ultimate insider’s POV.” — Douglas Coupland, author and artistEver wondered how a publishing house works? Scott McIntyre tells all in this behind-the-scenes look at Canadian ... Read more

$36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA necessary for future historians to fully understand the joyous and unexpected rodeo that was CanLit 1.0. It was a cherished window in time, and Scott tells of it with love and the ultimate insider’s POV.” — Douglas Coupland, author and artistEver wondered how a publishing house works? Scott McIntyre tells all in this behind-the-scenes look at Canadian
... Read more
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The Big Hop

The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

by David Rooney ...

Narrated by Jeremy Clyde ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

The inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history.In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history.In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into
... Read more
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A Nation's Paper

The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada

by John Ibbitson ...

Narrated by Emily Nixon, Sterling Jarvis ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper’s founding to the latest file.Since 1844, the Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown’s Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To ... Read more

$34.00 USD

From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper’s founding to the latest file.Since 1844, the Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown’s Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To
... Read more
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We the North

Canada's Team: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

by Doug Smith ...

Narrated by Kia Nurse, Matt Devlin ...

Unabridged

8 hours 17 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Doug Smith always gets the first question in any Raptors press conference--as the dean of our press corps, he's been in the front row for every development over the past 25 years. There's no one better placed to write a history of our team's first quarter century."--Nick Nurse, head coach, Toronto RaptorsBringing Jurassic Park to your home, a celebration of Canada's most ... Read more

$25.00 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Doug Smith always gets the first question in any Raptors press conference--as the dean of our press corps, he's been in the front row for every development over the past 25 years. There's no one better placed to write a history of our team's first quarter century."--Nick Nurse, head coach, Toronto RaptorsBringing Jurassic Park to your home, a celebration of Canada's most
... Read more
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True North Rising

My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North

by Whit Fraser ...

Narrated by Whit Fraser ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general."This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on ... Read more

$20.00 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general."This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on
... Read more
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Parking the Moose

One American's Epic Quest to Uncover His Incredible Canadian Roots

by Dave Hill ...

Narrated by Dave Hill ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

A quarter-Canadian from Cleveland explores his roots--and melts your face with joy.There's an idea most Americans tend to learn as children. The idea that their country is the "best." But this never stuck with Dave Hill, even though he was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His grandfather, you see, was from Canada (Clinton, Ontario, to be exact). And every Sunday at dinner he'd remind Dave and ... Read more

$26.00 USD

A quarter-Canadian from Cleveland explores his roots--and melts your face with joy.There's an idea most Americans tend to learn as children. The idea that their country is the "best." But this never stuck with Dave Hill, even though he was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His grandfather, you see, was from Canada (Clinton, Ontario, to be exact). And every Sunday at dinner he'd remind Dave and
... Read more
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WE SHALL OVERCOME

The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1954–1968

by James Beaumont Holloway ...

Narrated by Iona Whitfield ...

Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

WE SHALL OVERCOME — Audiobook · Narrated by Iona Whitfield. Listen time: 5 hours 41 minutes The complete civil rights movement history — Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Bloody Sunday, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, across 24 chapters from 1865 to 1968. On December 5, 1955, Jo Ann Robinson — president of Montgomery's Women's ... Read more

$9.99 USD

WE SHALL OVERCOME — Audiobook · Narrated by Iona Whitfield. Listen time: 5 hours 41 minutes The complete civil rights movement history — Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Bloody Sunday, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, across 24 chapters from 1865 to 1968. On December 5, 1955, Jo Ann Robinson — president of Montgomery's Women's
... Read more
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Nouvelle-France

Ce qu'on aurait dû vous enseigner

by Gilles Proulx ...

Narrated by Gilles Proulx ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui. C'est pour corriger ces tristes lacunes qu'au-delà des faits de guerre et autres dates marquantes, l'auteur de Nouvelle-France raconte avec ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui. C'est pour corriger ces tristes lacunes qu'au-delà des faits de guerre et autres dates marquantes, l'auteur de Nouvelle-France raconte avec
... Read more
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Relatos de Canadá: Cincuenta relatos reales y fascinantes de grandes acontecimientos y personajes de la historia de Canadá

by Ahoy Publications ...

Narrated by Luis Trumper ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

Recorra estos fascinantes relatos de acontecimientos significativos y personajes interesantes de la historia de Canadá.¿Le interesa la historia de Canadá?¿Desea conocer los personajes y acontecimientos históricos que sentaron las bases de la actual Canadá?¿Busca una guía que aprecie la diversidad y complejidad de la historia canadiense?Desde los comienzos indígenas y las exploraciones europeas ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Recorra estos fascinantes relatos de acontecimientos significativos y personajes interesantes de la historia de Canadá.¿Le interesa la historia de Canadá?¿Desea conocer los personajes y acontecimientos históricos que sentaron las bases de la actual Canadá?¿Busca una guía que aprecie la diversidad y complejidad de la historia canadiense?Desde los comienzos indígenas y las exploraciones europeas
... Read more

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