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  • Canadian Bushwacker

    A Lifetime in the Wilderness

    by Robert Cuerrier ...
    I was lucky to have spent my early years in the bush at a time when the old-timers were still there. There were many of them bunked up in little cabins up and down the line: old men, many crippled by accidents, arthritis or age, fellows just waiting for the end. Yet they were still strong of spirit, content and pleased to share their story. They were all men with amplified personalities, which is ... Read more

    $4.41 USD

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  • Disappeared: Stories from the Coast of Newfoundland

    by Eric Colbourne ...
    In Disappeared Eric Colbourne takes us on a fascinating journey through the history, folklore, and customs of a Newfoundland island outport. His sweep is broad encompassing chapters on home remedies, schooling, tragedy and adventure, and the battle fronts of the First World War. What unites these pages is a love of place and people and the truly impressive craft of the writing. ... Read more

    $2.95 USD

  • Spooky Sudbury

    True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained

    by Mark Leslie, Jenny Jelen ...
    "I tried to leave" is a common theme for those from the Sudbury region. People often vow to move away, but something about the Nickel City keeps luring them back. Whether it's the taste of fresh air -- or just the sulphur in the air -- it's hard to move beyond the black rocks, endless lakes, and great openness without longing to come home.Some are so attached to the northern community that they ... Read more

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  • The Goal That United Canada, 72 Amazing Stories by Canadians from Coast to Coast

    by Sean Mitton, Jim Prime ...
    A moment in time. It’s rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It’s rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention usually results from group trauma — the shock of assassination, large scale tragedy, or natural disaster. Occasionally, the event that galvanizes a ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of the Canadian National Exhibition

    by Richard Palmisano ...
    When one thinks of Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition, memories of bright lights, cotton candy, the rush of people, and the excitement of rides spring to mind. But when the lights go down and the people head home, the fairground takes on a life of its own. The spirits that dwell there from the exhibition's long history come out to play and work, even to scare the occasional employee.The ... Read more

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  • The Case of Valentine Shortis

    A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada

    by Martin Friedland ...
    Series series Heritage
    Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in Canada, was played out against one of the most dramatic periods in Canadian political history. Before ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship

    Arctic Ghost Ship

    by Anthony Dalton ...
    No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian civil war and made dangerous annual voyages around Alaska to Canada's western Arctic coast, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Tapping into the Pulse

    Political public opinion polling in Canada, 2013

    by Eric Grenier ...
    Written by Éric Grenier, author of ThreeHundredEight.com, and with a foreword by Paul Adams, Associate Professor of Journalism at Carleton University, "Tapping into the Pulse: Political public opinion polling in Canada, 2013" tells the story of the year in Canadian provincial and federal politics with a special focus on polls. Federally, this eBook tells the story of how the Liberals made ... Read more

    $3.68 USD

  • The Franklin Conspiracy

    An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition

    by Jeffrey Blair Latta ...
    The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the ... Read more

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  • Toronto Sketches 11

    "The Way We Were"

    by Mike Filey ...
    Mike Filey’s column “The Way We Were” first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: “The Way We Were.” Since ... Read more

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  • Edible Histories, Cultural Politics

    Towards a Canadian Food History

    by Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek, Marlene Epp ...
    Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region, nation and beyond.Based on findings from menus, cookbooks, government documents, advertisements, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, Frederick H. Armstrong ...
    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

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