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The World of Your Ancestors - General Information - Volume 1

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by Carol A. Wirth ...

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur or Serious GenealogistsLearn About Your PastAre you a genealogist looking for background information? Ancestors are more than just a name and date. History becomes more alive when you realize your ancestors were a part of it.The author presents information on THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - GENERAL INFORMATION - VOLUME 1 on early life in Europe and the Americas up to ... Read more

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur or Serious GenealogistsLearn About Your PastAre you a genealogist looking for background information? Ancestors are more than just a name and date. History becomes more alive when you realize your ancestors were a part of it.The author presents information on THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - GENERAL INFORMATION - VOLUME 1 on early life in Europe and the Americas up to
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The World of Your Ancestors - General Information - Volume 2

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by Carol A. Wirth ...

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur and Serious GenealogistsDo You Want To Know More About the Past?Are you a genealogist looking for background information? Ancestors are more than just a name and date. The past becomes more alive when you realize your ancestors were a part of it. Genealogy and history are exciting. Are you curious about life before you were born? Multiple topic areas can satisfy that ... Read more

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur and Serious GenealogistsDo You Want To Know More About the Past?Are you a genealogist looking for background information? Ancestors are more than just a name and date. The past becomes more alive when you realize your ancestors were a part of it. Genealogy and history are exciting. Are you curious about life before you were born? Multiple topic areas can satisfy that
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The World of Your Ancestors - General Information - Volume 3

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by Carol A. Wirth ...

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur or Serious GenealogistsDo You Want To Know More About the Past?Ancestors are more than just a name and date and the data presented allows you a peek into your relative's lives. This is the last in a series entitled THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - GENERAL INFORMATION - VOLUME 3. It presents a few of the endless topic areas available and readers can select those of ... Read more

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A Book for the Curious,Amateur or Serious GenealogistsDo You Want To Know More About the Past?Ancestors are more than just a name and date and the data presented allows you a peek into your relative's lives. This is the last in a series entitled THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - GENERAL INFORMATION - VOLUME 3. It presents a few of the endless topic areas available and readers can select those of
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Canada: the Case for Staying out of Other People’S Wars

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Canada did not come of age at Vimy, and in all of Canadas wars both soldiers and civilians have died in vain. So why do people continue to support war in general, despite its poor record of benefits? And why, in particular, does Canada involve herself in other peoples wars? Why does Canada, never under any realistic threat of invasion, continue to fight? In Canada: The Case for Staying Out of ... Read more

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Canada did not come of age at Vimy, and in all of Canadas wars both soldiers and civilians have died in vain. So why do people continue to support war in general, despite its poor record of benefits? And why, in particular, does Canada involve herself in other peoples wars? Why does Canada, never under any realistic threat of invasion, continue to fight? In Canada: The Case for Staying Out of
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Ortona Street Fight

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December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

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December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine
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The Inconvenient Indian

A Curious Account of Native People in North America

by Thomas King ...

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

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WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving
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American Nations

A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard ...

**• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

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**• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to
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Rise to Greatness

The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

by Conrad Black ...

Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

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Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from
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Hostages to Fortune

The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada

by Peter C Newman ...

Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada.In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to ... Read more

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Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada.In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to
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A People's History of Quebec

by Robin Philpot, Jacques Lacoursière ...

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and "embrothered the peoples" they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote.Connecting everyday life to the events that ... Read more

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Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and "embrothered the peoples" they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote.Connecting everyday life to the events that
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The Barbarous Years

The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

by Bernard Bailyn ...

**Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Read more

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**Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden
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Lost Beneath the Ice

The Story of HMS Investigator

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When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though, ... Read more

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When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though,
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