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  • Spatial Evolution of Manufacturing

    Southern Ontario 1851-1891

    by James M. Gilmour ...
    Series series Heritage
    Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export. In general the latter prevailed and the landscape and economy were transformed. This study examines industrial growth in Southern Ontario, one of the most economically ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Life In The Clearings Versus The Bush

    by Susanna Moodie ...
    Written as a sequel to her groundbreaking memoir Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie’s Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush candidly explores the communities that developed along Lake Ontario in the 1850s. Based on her experiences of living in Belleville, Ontario, Moodie utilizes her sharp wit and observant eye to create a vivid imagining of society life in mid-nineteenth century Canada ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Luck of the Karluk

    Shipwrecked in the Arctic

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Lake Erie Shore

    Ontario's Forgotten South Coast

    by Ron Brown ...
    The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Much of the area's natural features - the wetlands, the Carolinian forests - and its built heritage - fishing ports and military ramparts - provide much of interest for vistors to the region.Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coast line in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History

    by Lesley Choyce ...
    The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks and the record books of human glory and error. In this true-life adventure, he provides a down-to-earth journey through the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Canada's Entrepreneurs

    From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

    by Andrew Ross, Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Dictionary of Canadian Biography
    Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it.This captivating ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Reclaiming the Don

    An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley

    by Jennifer L. Bonnell ...
    A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s. Demonstrating how mosquito ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Phantom Atlas

    The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

    by Edward Brooke-Hitching ...
    Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Notes from The Century Before

    A Journal from British Columbia

    by Edward Hoagland ...
    In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland’s extraordinary gifts for portraiture—his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide—Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Land

    Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

    by Cole Harris ...
    Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC PressThe Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Voyageur Canadian History 2-Book Bundle

    The Refugee / The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

    by Benjamin Drew ...
    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now ... Read more

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