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  • Alligators of the North

    The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs

    by Harry Barrett, Clarence F. Coons ...
    The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry and for more than thirty years was ubiquitous in northern Ontario until eclipsed by its worthy ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (Unabridged)

    by T. D. Bonner ...
    Narrated by Harry Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 37 min

    In the untamed wilderness of the American frontier, a legend was born. James P. Beckwourth, a man of extraordinary courage and resilience, embarked on a life filled with adventure and danger. From his early days as a fur trapper to his rise as a chief among the Crow Nation, Beckwourth's story is a captivating tale of survival, exploration, and the indomitable spirit that shaped the American West. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Canada's Rumrunners

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  • The Admiral Benbow

    The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

    by Sam Willis ...
    Series series Hearts of Oak Trilogy
    Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with.In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main, other ships in his squadron failed to support him. His leg shattered by a cannon-ball, Benbow fought on - but to no avail: the French escaped and the stricken Benbow succumbed ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Beothuk

    A Canadian Tragedy

    by Barbara Whitby ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The arrival of Europeans in the New World forever changed the fate of the Beothuk. As more settlers arrived, the Beothuk were forced inland. They were tracked, abducted, and even murdered. Their plight was epitomized by the tragic story of Shanawdithit - the last of the Beothuk. ... Read more

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  • Strange Days: Amazing Stories from Canada's Wildest Decade

    by Ted Ferguson ...
    The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history a time of frivolous fads shocking crimes and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the '20s tales of serial killers athletes con men crackpots prime ministers ... Read more

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  • The Far Traveler

    Voyages of a Viking Woman

    by Nancy Marie Brown ...
    The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Now You Know Canada's Heroes

    by Doug Lennox ...
    Series Book 19 - Now You Know
    When it comes to Q&A trivia, Doug Lennox has no peer. Sir Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Laura Secord, Norman Bethune, Terry Fox, and Roberta Bondar are all Canadian icons we've come to cherish. Doug gives the dope on all those famous heroes and many more, but you'll also discover the amazing courage, pluck, and accomplishments of Upper Canada Rebellion heroine Elizabeth Barnett, privateer Joseph Barss, ... Read more

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  • Stories from the Hole in the Ceiling

    by Anne Galway ...
    Children in their formative years often learned secrets and gained an understanding of a wider world through the hole in the ceiling. Now as adults, they share for the first time their cherished memories of overheard conversations that have shaped their lives—stories of humour, heartache, and joy—from friends, relatives, and visitors to their childhood homes. The character of Newfoundland and ... Read more

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    Canadian War Bride Stories

    Edited by Barbara Ladouceur, Phyllis Spence ...
    In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The stories convey courage and humour: qualities that carried the war brides through the difficult war years and that contribute to lively reading today. Includes fifty ... Read more

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    What It Is, What It Can Be

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