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  • But This is Our War

    Series series Heritage
    Pembroke. August 4, 1914. On a verandah in town four young people anxiously await news that will change irrevocably the course of their lives. A fifth arrives, out of breath, with the latest bulletin from the telegraph office. War has been declared – and it is their war.At the age of ninety, Grace Craig looks back to her youth and tells the story of the impact of the Great War on her family and ... Leer más

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  • Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry

    A Home Child Experience

    Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1937. As a child, Patricia was angered that her mother wouldn't talk about the ... Leer más

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  • Causeway

    A Passage from Innocence

    Causeway is Linden MacIntyre’s evocative memoir of his Cape Breton childhood. At once a vibrant coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life and a reflection on fathers and sons, the narrative revolves around the construction of the Canso Causeway that would link the small Cape Breton village of MacIntyre’s childhood to the wide world of the mainland. Shot through with humour, ... Leer más

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  • Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

    de Roger Gunn ...
    Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in ... Leer más

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  • Old Enough to Fight

    Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War

    Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story.Some boys ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Life Of Caring: 16 Newfoundland Nurses Tell Their Stories

    16 Newfoundland Nurses Tell Their Stories

    A collection of oral histories from nurses practicing during the 20s and 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador. ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Pole

    An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912

    de S.L. Osborne ...
    In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada.In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history of how the Arctic became part of Canada and how the Dominion government established jurisdiction there. It describes the early expeditions to Canada’s North, including the little-known Dominion government expeditions to the Subarctic and Arctic carried out between 1884 and 1912. ... Leer más

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  • Heat

    A Firefighter's Story

    de Jon Wells ...
    The human story behind Canada's worst chemical fire"Why you leaving Stelco?" the friend asked the rookie firefighter."'Cause it's hot and dirty and I don't like shifts."Enter the world of Hamilton's firefighters. Theirs is a smouldering, combustible workplace, and in the effort to save lives they routinely put their own on the line. They know the ways of fire and fight to engage it, to be the one ... Leer más

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  • Quarantined

    Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

    de Peter Johnson ...
    Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands of forgotten people who arrived on our shores only to be felled by disease, in an era when ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Beothuk

    A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Polar Winds

    A Century of Flying the North

    Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond."They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own — were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their wits."Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways ... Leer más

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  • Another Country, Another Life

    Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs

    Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, ... Leer más

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