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  • Broken Shackles

    Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom

    Edited by Peter Meyler ...
    In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of Broken Shackles is ... Read more

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  • Lethal Marriage

    The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

    by Nick Pron ...
    **What the press couldn't reveal—the full story of the monstrous sex slayings that shocked a nation . . .WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence.**Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began their depraved sex and murder spree by stealing drugs to knock out her little sister. While Paul raped ... Read more

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  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Read more

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  • The Loyalists

    Revolution Exile Settlement

    In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States.As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face of settlement there. Their arrival would eventually lead to the formation of the provinces of New Brunswick ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The First Stampede of Flores LaDue

    The True Love Story of Florence and Guy Weadick and the Beginning of the Calgary Stampede

    by Wendy Bryden ...
    In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, Bryden presents this #1 Calgary Herald bestseller detailing the fascinating true story of the romance that started the Stampede.The love story of rodeo promoter Guy Weadick and trick roper Flores LaDue began among the rough-and-tumble vaudevillians preserving the frontier way of life in the first Wild West shows. Their love endured through ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lethal Ladies

    Crimes of Passion, Tales of Deceit and Treachery!

    Series series Amazing Stories
    Grace Marks, the Victorian servant who inspired Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace ... Elizabeth Workman, a Sarnia housewife who turned on her abusive husband and paid the price for it ... Evelyn Dick, a glamourous 1940s party girl who Hamiltonians still talk about ... These are just some of the murderers featured in Lethal Ladies, a collection of accounts of sensational true crimes motivated by fear, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Liquor, Lust and the Law

    The Story of Vancouvers Legendary Penthouse Nightclub

    by Aaron Chapman ...
    The story of Vancouver’s legendary Penthouse nightclub, founded in 1947 and active to this day. In its heyday, acts like Sammy Davis Jr and Nat King Cole performed, and stars like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper visited; in the 1970s, the club became infamous for its exotic dancers and a lurid history that included vice squads, politicians, and con men. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hockey Night in Canada

    60 Seasons

    Hockey Night in Canada has reached a great age (and for television, practically an immortal one) because it made itself into something that Canada couldn't live without. It is this surge of emotion that connected us all each week, and which connects us through the years to now. Hockey Night in Canada didn't just aim a camera at a game and observe what happened-it actively gave the country a prism ... Read more

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  • THE COQUIHALLA

    B.C.'s INSULT TO ROAD BUILDING

    by Ted Campbell ...
    The Coquihalla Pass and the Trans Canada Highway from Hope B.C. to the Alberta border are a fifty year insult to the taxpayers of B.C. and Canada. Even worse it recklessly endangers the lives of drivers who leave their homes and families to deliver the goods we produce. Ted Campbell worked as a construction dump truck driver on the Field Hill and Rogers Pass and the Blueberry Paulson Pass during ... Read more

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  • Smoke Signals

    The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry

    When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer.Smoke Signals follows tobacco from its origins in ... Read more

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  • Against the Grain

    An Irreverent View of Alberta

    A contrarian view of Alberta and Albertans from the outspoken and often controversial former Calgary Herald columnist.In 2005, Alberta celebrates its centenary: a hundred-year stretch that has seen the province catapulted from being little more than thinly populated grassland and mountain to one of Canada’s richest provinces, one with a fair claim to being perpetually misunderstood. Albertans, of ... Read more

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  • Spirit of Spring (storey 5 of 40)

    Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada

    Series Book 5 - The White Girl
    Do you remember when you were a little kid and an adult tells you that you have to do something that makes absolutely no sense to you? I mean even at an extremely young age you know better. But this is an adult and this is that era when grown ups were ALWAYS right. I remember thinking that possibly, when I am older, I will understand this, there will be a reason for this…. I watch as my feet ... Read more

    $1.00 USD