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“robert foxcurran”

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  • Songs Upon the Rivers

    The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

    by Michel Bouchard, Robert Foxcurran, Sébastien Malette ...
    Before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. In this seminal work, Foxcurran, Bouchard, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs Upon the Rivers

    The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

    by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette ...
    Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Staking Claims to a Continent

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    Finalist for the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!The long rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada's northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters – Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers – confronted armed colonists of ... Read more

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  • Mesoamerica's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya and Aztec

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  • Smoke Signals

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    by Jim Poling, Sr. ...
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  • The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War

    by D. Peter MacLeod, Canadian War Museum ...
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  • A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812

    New Brunswick and the War of 1812

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    When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With Great Britain locked in battle with Napoleon’s France, the United States pounced on the chance to ... Read more

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    Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.They bowed their heads to give thanks.The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival.With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower ... Read more

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