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  • Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists

    The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

    by Margo Goodhand ...
    In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600.In Runaway Wives and Rogue ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Underground Railroad

    The long journey to freedom in Canada

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Slavery existed throughout the western Hemisphere, but after its abolition in the British empire it persisted for decades in much of the U.S. Even in states where slavery was illegal, slaves were subject to capture and return to their owners. The only sure escape was to cross the border into Canada.The Underground Railway was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses, an organized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Toronto Book of the Dead

    by Adam Bunch ...
    Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Newfoundland Stories

    The Loss of the Waterwitch & Other Tales

    by Eldon Drodge ...
    The fourteen stories in this publication comprise a spectrum of characters and events that have helped forge an image of an island its people and its culture that is unique and compelling. Heroic deeds great achievements hardships and deprivation disasters superstitions and customs as well as the Beothuk saga and the indomitable character of our ancestors have all contributed to the making of the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Legacy

    How French Canadians Shaped North America

    Edited by Andre Pratte, Jonathan Kay ...
    A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret Atwood, Lucien Bouchard, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Ken Dryden, etc. -- tells the story of the extraordinary legacy of the French contribution to our very way of life.In 1913, schoolgirls found a heavy metal plaque peeking out of the soil in St-Pierre, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Troublous Times in Canada

    Enriched edition. A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870

    by John A. MacDonald, Sterling Hale ...
    In "Troublous Times in Canada," John A. MacDonald delivers a compelling narrative that intricately weaves together the turbulent history of Canada during the 19th century. Written in a reflective and engaging style, the book captures the essence of the conflicts and challenges faced by the nascent nation as it sought to define its identity amid colonial pressures and internal strife. MacDonald's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Folk

    Portraits of Remarkable Lives

    by Peter Unwin ...
    A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners, millionaires in ill-advised Citroen half-tracks. The restless characters who spanned those miles and who fill ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Grant MacEwan

    Selected Writings

    by Grant MacEwan ...
    August 12, 2002 would have marked the 100th birthday of one of Western Canada's most beloved, exemplary, idiosyncratic and admired citizens, the Hon. J.W. Grant MacEwan. A Century of Grant MacEwan: Selected Writings is published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, and showcases the writing achievements of this remarkable man. From his first foray into historical writing, The Sodbusters ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Last Plague

    Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada

    by Mark Osborne Humphries ...
    The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Bobbie Rosenfeld

    The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

    by Anne Dublin ...
    Sportswriters and broadcasters in this country agree that Bobbie Rosenfeld may be Canada’s greatest female athlete of the twentieth century. A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in a small Russian town and came to Canada with her immigrant parents when she was less than a month old. Her love for all sports showed itself early. As a young girl she excelled in track and field, ice hockey, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • High Peaks Engineering

    Rocky Mountain Marvels

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded thanks to scientific innovation and sheer human grit. In the nineteenth century, steam locomotives, railways, tunnels, trestles, and telegraphy represented the hi-tech ... Read more

    $7.19 USD