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  • Canadian Adventurers and Explorers 5-Book Bundle

    David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped Canada’s geography are: the French founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; surveyor David Thompson; Arctic explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson; legendary Upper Canada ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 16–20

    Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorer of Western Canada, David Thompson; the author of the Jalna novels, Mazo de la Roche; wilderness chronicler Susanna Moodie; and award-winning novelist Gabrielle Roy.IncludesMaurice ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

    William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential politicians Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Premiers René Lévesque and Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorers Samuel de Champlain and David Thompson; National Film Board founder John Grierson; medical humanitarian Lucille ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Wilderness

    The Story of David Thompson

    by Tom Shardlow ...
    Series Book 9 - Stories of Canada
    David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudsons Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Thompson

    by Tom Shardlow ...
    Series Book 17 - Quest Biography
    Across North America in 2007-2009, communities will celebrate the David Thompson Bicentennials. For 34 years the great explorer, surveyor, and fur trader travelled across the continent, finding and mapping the routes between the St. Lawrence and the Pacific. Trusting the stars and his sextant, he surveyed a continental area so vast it remains a mapping achievement unequalled in human history. This ... Read more

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  • Strange Days: Amazing Stories from Canada's Wildest Decade

    by Ted Ferguson ...
    The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history a time of frivolous fads shocking crimes and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the '20s tales of serial killers athletes con men crackpots prime ministers ... Read more

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  • The Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet

    Intrepid Surveyor, 1884-1966

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  • Canada's Rumrunners

    Incredible Adventures and Exploits During Canada's Illicit Liquor Trade

    by Art Montague ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "...despite flying bullets and cannon shots, Ben had his crew hastily tossing evidence over the side of the boat. Bullet-riddled, the Maritimas finally came to a stop, but even then, the crew continued to throw the beer overboard." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: the history of crime or prohibition. It is safe to say that America would have been a much drier ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Short History of Canada

    Sixth Edition

    Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history.Morton ... Read more

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  • Canoe Country

    The Making of Canada

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who ... Read more

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  • Unlikely Soldiers

    How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

    Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they ... Read more

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