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  • Diplomat, Dissident, Spook

    by Bill Warden ...
    In this timely memoir, the late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the brink of nuclear annihilation. Diplomat, Dissident, Spook relays firsthand the experiences of this former Canadian diplomat who, like Voltaire’s Candide, gets successively disabused of his ideological certainties ... Read more

    $7.36 USD

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    Fascinating stories from Ontario's past

    by Andrew Hind, Maria Da Silva ...
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    A lively book illustrated with archival photos, Secrets of Lake Simcoe is a valuable addition to local history collections and provides a refreshing way for anyone to view what some consider to be Canada's sixth Great Lake.At the heart of central Ontario, Lake Simcoe has played an important role in the province's history for hundreds of years. Today a popular destination for pleasure-seekers and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Canada Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of Canada

    by David Thompson, John Rae, Samuel De Champlain ...
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    “The Canada Exploration Anthology”, features texts from Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Rene-Robert Chevalier de la Salle, Samuel Hearne, Alexander MacKenzie, David Thompson, John Rae. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 7 books included in this huge volume.The Anthology tells the tale of the discovery and exploration of Canada by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rails Across the Prairies

    The Railway Heritage of Canada’s Prairie Provinces

    by Ron Brown ...
    Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their ... Read more

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  • The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City

    The Meeting That Made Canada

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Series series History of Canada
    In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Voices of British Columbia

    Stories from Our Frontier

    by Robert Budd ...
    Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection - 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences - is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about ... Read more

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  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Out from the Harbour

    Outport Life Before Resettlement

    by Rex Brown ...
    “But I think I have told you a love story. Is there any other word for it? “Sense of place” doesn’t seem to quite cut it for Tack’s Beach and me. I hope that in my flick around Tack’s Beach harbour in the 1950s, I have shed a bit of light upon where we hail from, we Newfoundlanders and Labradorians of the outports—some of us resettled, all of us clinging to every morsel of this place, Newfoundland ... Read more

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  • Colossal Canadian Failures

    A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

    by Randy Richmond, Tom Villemaire ...
    Did you hear the one about the canal builder who forgot canals need water? The battle where everyone ran away? Or the boat made of ice, and the town that mixed up time? How about the shovel invented for soldiers with a hole in it? Colossal Canadian Failures is a lighthearted look at Canada's unsung heroes the eccentrics, the failures, the misguided, and the just plain overoptimistic who never met ... Read more

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  • Training Disciplined Soldiers for Christ

    The Influence of American Fundamentalism on Prairie Bible Institute (1922–1980)

    by Tim W. Callaway ...
    The comparative scarcity of academic attention given Prairie Bible Institute located at Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, serves as the primary motivation behind this book. This work should therefore be regarded as an attempt to contribute to and refine the very small amount of research available regarding how Prairie Bible Institutes first half-century should be understood and interpreted by students ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The TTC Story

    The First Seventy-five Years

    by Mike Filey ...
    Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and ... Read more

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  • Coming Home

    Saskatchewan Remembered

    by Ron Evans ...
    The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author's reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears - neighbours, drunks, misfits - all with a place in the story. These are the tales of a father who lived hard, failed often, and ... Read more

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