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  • The Golden Dream

    A History of the St. Lawrence Seaway

    de Ronald Stagg ...
    In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for fifty years until Canada suddenly decided to build a seaway alone, pressuring the American ... Leer más

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  • The Firebrand

    William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

    Series Libro 10 - Voyageur Classics
    In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie. A skilled historian and an entertaining writer, Kilbourn reveals Mackenzie’s complex character: able political editor, shrewd recorder of his times, efficient first mayor of Toronto, and gadfly of the House of Assembly.Kilbourn vividly recreates the ill-fated Mackenzie-led march on Toronto during the ... Leer más

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  • The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5-Book Bundle

    The Firebrand / Mrs. Simcoe's Diary / The Scalpel, the Sword / The Men of the Last Frontier / Pilgrims of the Wild

    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada’s most important figures at crucial times in the country’s development. William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie: able political editor, ... Leer más

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  • Strange Days

    Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • A Time Such as There Never Was Before

    Canada After the Great War

    de Alan Bowker ...
    Ottawa Book Award 2015 — ShortlistedBetween 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”The war ... Leer más

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  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

    de Paul Chiasson ...
    The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus.In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating ... Leer más

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  • 60 Years Behind the Wheel

    The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960

    de Bill Sherk ...
    From rumble seats and running boards to power tops and tailfins, 60 Years Behind the Wheel captures the thrill of motoring in Canada from the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960. There are intriguing stories of cars with no steering wheels, and fascinating photographs of historic vehicles from across the country. From the Studebaker to the Lincoln-Zephyr, from the showroom to the scrapyard, here ... Leer más

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  • Staking Claims to a Continent

    John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

    de James Laxer ...
    Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Leer más

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  • The War of 1812

    The War That Both Sides Won

    Tragedy and farce, bravery and cowardice, intelligence and foolishness, sense and nonsense - all these contradictions and more have characterized the War of 1812. The real significance of the series of skirmishes that collectively made up the war between 1812 and 1814 is the enormous impact they have had on Canadian and American views of themselves and of each other.The publication of The War of ... Leer más

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  • Whisky and Ice

    The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring Rumrunner

    de C.W. Hunt ...
    During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr's only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie Perri.Whisky and Ice takes the reader back to the Prohibition era, when Canada and the United States were ... Leer más

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  • Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards, The

    The Vancouver Island Survey (1860–1861)

    Edición de Linda Dorricott, Deidre Cullon ...
    Captain Richards' journal is an account of three survey seasons on Vancouver Island aboard two British Navy ships, the HMS Plumper and the HMS Hecate. Between 1860 and 1862 Richards and his dedicated crew surveyed and charted the entire coastline of Vancouver Island, creating baseline information for the nautical charts we use today.This monumental task, faithfully and often humorously recorded, ... Leer más

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  • The Spanish on the Northwest Coast

    For Glory, God and Gain

    Series series Amazing Stories
    They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing whether they would return. Their orders from Spain might well arrive long after they were needed, six months or longer into the journey. For more than two centuries, ... Leer más

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