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  • Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    An in-depth historical study of Nova Scotia's role in WWI and its lingering impact on the region, its people, and its economy.Though the First World War ended in 1918, it continued to haunt Canada for generations. In Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson examines what was, for the people of Canada, an unprecedented period collective military trauma. As Tennyson ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Merry Hell

    The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919

    by Brian Tennyson ...
    Merry Hell is the only complete history of the 25th Canadian infantry battalion, which was recruited in the autumn and winter of 1914–15 and served overseas from spring 1915 until spring 1919. Author Robert N Clements, who served in the battalion throughout that period and rose from private to captain, wrote the story many years after the war, based on his personal memories and experiences. As ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Bluenose Bluebirds

    Nova Scotia’s Military Nurses in the Great War

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    A comprehensive history of the Nova Scotian nurses who served in World War I, from a leading historian and author of Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919.Very little has been written about Canadian military nurses in the Great War largely because, more than a century later, historians still don't agree on how many Canadian military nurses served. What is generally agreed is that between a third and a ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • No Regrets

    The Rise and Fall of Sir William Hearst

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    When William Hearst succeeded James Whitney as leader of Ontario’s Conservative party and Premier in 1914, he was relatively unknown and represented northern Ontario, a region that was emerging as the province’s richest source of resources and government revenues. He took office just after the outbreak of the First World War and, an unapologetic imperialist, aligned his government with Sir Robert ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Canada's Great War, 1914-1918

    How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation describes the major role that Canada played in helping the British Empire win the greatest war in history—and, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in Canada’s closer integration not with the British Empire but with its continental neighbor, the United States.When Britain declared war against ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Canadian Experience of the Great War

    A Guide to Memoirs

    by Brian Douglas Tennyson ...
    Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort—400,000 of them overseas—out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Impressions of Cape Breton

    Edited by Brian Douglas Tennyson, PhD ...
    Series series Cape Bretoniana Research
    First published in 1986, now revised and with new chapters added, Brian Tennyson’s Impressions of Cape Breton gathers together descriptive impressions of Cape Breton Island, dating from 1634 to 1941, as selected by historian Brian Douglas Tennyson. Some of the impressions are overwhelmingly positive – “Sydney harbour is justly considered one of the finest ports in America” – some are harsh – ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War

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    A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After witnessing German naval attacks on British civilians, Norman Collins enlisted in the Seaforth ... Read more

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  • The King's Curse

    by Philippa Gregory ...
    Series series The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England.As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the King’s mother, the Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor claim to the throne. She is buried in marriage to a Tudor ... Read more

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  • The Luminaries

    by Eleanor Catton ...
    The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems ...**"A true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly." —**New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in ... Read more

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  • Trudeau's Tango

    Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–1972

    by Darryl Raymaker ...
    A chronicle of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's first term as prime minister and the attempt to bridge one of Canada's classic political fault lines.Trudeau appeared to enjoy the encounter. He stood his ground while escaping projectiles, including a tomato . . .In this insightful and lively history, Liberal insider Darryl Raymaker recalls the attempt to broker "a marriage from hell" between the federal ... Read more

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  • Sudbury

    Rail Town to Regional Capital

    by C.M. Wallace ...
    At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now, nearly 100 years later, Sudbury is the largest city in northeastern Ontario. it is also the centre of many governmental, business, social, educational, media, medical, and ... Read more

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