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  • The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

    Separating Fact from Fiction

    by Gregory Klages ...
    **A National Post Bestseller!How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917?**Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend?Commemorating the one-hundredth ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Morning After

    The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was

    by Chantal Hebert ...
    A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec referendum, a still-murky episode in Canadian history that continues to defy our understanding. The referendum brought ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Vimy

    The Battle and the Legend

    by Tim Cook ...
    A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity.Why does Vimy loom so large in Canada's identity—and should it? Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian and a RBC Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over a hundred years. Vimy is unlike any ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Standing into Danger

    by Cassie Brown ...
    In the snowy predawn of February 18, 1942, a convoy of three American ships zigzagged up the North Atlantic toward Newfoundland, heading for one of the worst disasters in naval history. The ships were under radio silence to protect their position from the threat of German U-boats. A storm was raging, visibility was zero, and the currents had turned wildly unpredictable. With only unreliable ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Billy Bishop Goes to War 2nd Edition

    by John MacLachlan Gray ...
    One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War One flying ace – credited with seventy-two victories and billed as the top pilot in the British Empire – was revised to frame the original ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion

    The Trail of 1885

    by Wayne F. Brown ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt. Among the forces marshalled to quell the unrest was an elite scouting unit of the Alberta Field Force, led by the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Beneath the Waves

    Newfoundland Sea Stories

    by Clarence Vautier ...
    The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century. In Newfoundland alone, countless lives have been swallowed up by the angry seas of the North Atlantic or have fallen victim to the devastating effects of fire, explosions, collisions, and ill fortune. In Beneath the Waves, Clarence Vautier navigates the twentieth century, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Ten Decisions

    Canada’s Best, Worst, and Most Far-Reaching Decisions of the Second World War

    by Larry D. Rose ...
    In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their importance, their agonizing stakes, and the impact they have on the country to this day. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mennonite Women in Canada

    A History

    by Marlene Epp ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Immigration and Culture
    Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Charlie Baker George

    The Story of SABENA OOCBG

    by Frank Tibbo ...
    Additional information from two survivors and two Sabena pilots compliment this popular bestseller. In the cold dark of an early September morning, the crew and passengers of a Sabena Airlines DC4, flight OOCBG, were brutally hurled into an experience that killed many of them and tested the strength of the survivors to incredible limits. The story of their determination to live and the masterful, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • To Climb a Mountain

    Growing Up in the Canadian West: Adventure Amid History and Turmoil

    by Jean Forbes-King ...
    In the 1900s, the dream of owning their own land draws thousands of immigrants to the Canadian West. One of them is Billy King, an adventurous youngster who emigrates from England with his family to a rough-and-tumble Saskatchewan town and then over the Rocky Mountains to a very different way of life Victoria, BC, where he must learn the ways of the sea. With the onset of war in Europe, his life ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • When the State Trembled

    How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

    by Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell ...
    The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status quo.This account, by the authors of the award-winning Walk Towards the Gallows, reveals that the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD