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  • Sir John A.

    An Anecdotal Life of Sir John A. Macdonald

    Edited by Cynthia M. Smith, Jack McLeod ...
    This is the man behind the legend. Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.s political and parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and sorrows. Stories of patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter opponents take readers through many of the major events of nineteenth-century Canada, from the building of the cpr to the Riel Rebellions, only to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    by Richard J. Gwyn ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • John A

    The Man Who Made Us

    by Richard J. Gwyn ...
    The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The National Dream

    The Great Railway, 1871-1881

    by Pierre Berton ...
    In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision—bold to the point of recklessness—was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation.Using primary sources—diaries, letters, unpublished ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Graves Are Walking

    The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

    by John Kelly ...
    "Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it's never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told." — New York PostIt started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • John A. Macdonald

    Canada's First Prime Minister

    by Ged Martin ...
    Series Book 35 - Quest Biography
    Shocked by Canada's 1837 rebellions, John A. Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his skills, and in 1867 he became the country's first prime minister.As "Sir John A.," he drove the Dominion's westward expansion, rapidly incorporating the ... Read more

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  • The Little Immigrants

    The Orphans Who Came to Canada

    by Kenneth Bagnell ...
    The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve ... Read more

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  • Home Children Bundle

    The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

    by Mary Pettit, Gail H. Corbett, Marjorie Kohli, Kenneth Bagnell ...
    In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by Roy Porter ...
    A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Lost Prime Ministers

    Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

    by Michael Hill ...
    After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years.From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in ... Read more

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  • The History of Canada Series: The Destiny of Canada

    Mcdonald, Laurier And The Election Of 1891

    by Christopher Pennington ...
    Series series History of Canada
    It was Sir John A. Macdonald's last campaign. His Conservatives had dominated Canadian politics since Confederation. Their National Policy, which protected Canadian manufacturers from foreign competition, was well established and affection for the "Old Man" was deep and widespread. The Liberal leader, Wilfrid Laurier, was new in the job and uncertain that a Roman Catholic from Quebec had any ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

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