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  • The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be

    Expo '67 And Its Time

    by John Lownsbrough ...
    Series series History of Canada
    A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada's centennial. It becomes clearer, though, as its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The History of Canada Series - The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau

    The Gang Of Eight And The Fight For Canada

    by Ron Graham ...
    Series series History of Canada
    Between the morning of Wednesday, November 4, and the morning of Thursday, November 5, 1981, a fateful drama unfolded that changed Canada forever.In one last attempt to renew the constitution with the consent of the provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of constitutional wrangling, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mile 81

    by Stephen King ...
    Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine—the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid.At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Saving Rachel

    by John Locke ...
    What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Premiers Joey and Frank

    Greed, Power, and Lust

    by Bill Rowe ...
    The Premiers Joey and Frank is three stories in one. First is Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood’s, whose ego and force of personality dominated every room he walked into, and strained to the breaking point every personal relationship he had. The latter half of the book covers Premier Frank Moores and his mixed personal motives, combined with a singularity of political purpose: Get Smallwood. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Mary Janeway

    The Legacy of a Home Child

    by Mary Pettit ...
    Mary Janeway is the story of a little girl's childhood while living on a farm as a domestic servant in the late 1800s. Based on extensive historical research, Mary's story begins in Scotland where family circumstances lead to her being sent to Canada as a home child. Separated from her siblings, Mary, at age eight, is sent to a farm near Innerkip, Ontario, where the Jacques family "needed a girl." ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Polar Winds

    A Century of Flying the North

    by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail ...
    Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond."They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own — were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their wits."Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True-Life Adventures of Canada's Bush Pilots

    by Bill Zuk ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Bush pilots haul cargo to remote reserves along the West Coast of Canada. They ferry big-game hunters to base camps and fly-in fishermen to remote lodges. They take nature photographers to scenic vistas and archaeological explorers to their latest dig.Bush pilots and the planes they have flown are an exciting part of Canada's aviation history. In his latest book Bill Zuk brings their exploits and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Policy and Practice in Canada

    A History

    by Alvin Finkel ...
    Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young.This book is the first synthesis on social policy ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Along the Shore

    Rediscovering Torontos Waterfront Heritage

    by Jane Fairburn ...
    Along the Shoreexamines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate connection with Lake Ontario and the natural world. Exploring the history, landscape, geography, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Healy's West

    The Life and Times of John J. Healy

    by Gordon E. Tolton ...
    Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer, a horse dealer, a scout, a lawman, a newspaper editor, a speculator, a merchant, a capitalist, a historian, and a politician. He defied classification while ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rumrunners: The Smugglers from St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Burin Peninsula from Prohibition to Present Day

    The Smugglers from St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Burin Peninsula from Prohibition to Present Day

    by J. P. Andrieux ...
    Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an element of the culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, with the advent of the American Prohibition era (1919–1933), the French Islands’ illegal practice took on worldwide ... Read more

    $9.89 USD