Canada category: 4109 books
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
An Illustrated Guide: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Established in 1876, Mount Pleasant Cemetery has a rich and textured history. It is the keeper of thousands of stories, each of which has contributed to the history of our city, province, and country.
Many of Canada's most beloved figures rest there - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Foster Hewitt,...
Belleville
A Popular History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Belleville, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, traces its beginnings to the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists. For 30 years the centre of the present city was reserved for the Mississauga First Nation. White settlers who built dwellings and businesses on the land paid annual rent to them until...
Port Alberni
More Than Just a Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Any community that has ever been labelled a “mill town” carries both the promise of prosperity and the constant threat of collapse, its fortune hinging on a single industry whose performance is as much related to the whims of a global economy as it is to the abundance of a key natural resource....
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots
Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged....
by David Goss, Harold E. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
East Saint John, affectionately called the "East Side," became a part of the City of Saint John in 1967. For decades prior to its merger, the city and east side community of the Parish of Simonds cooperated in many areas of municipal service. East Saint John contained many industries, including...
by Joanne Ireland, Ryan Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
All Oilers fans have marveled at highlights of The Great One, and have felt that excitement coming back to Oil Country with phenom Connor McDavid. But only real fans can immediately recall Ryan Smyth's third-period hat trick in the 2006 playoffs or have hit the road to support their team in enemy...
End of the Line
The 1857 Train Wreck at the Desjardins Canal Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
In 1857, the Desjardins Canal bridge collapsed under a Toronto-to-Hamilton train, creating one of the worst railway wrecks in North American history. Sixty lives, including that of the main contractor, were lost. The story of how the Great Western Railway was conceived, where it was located, and how...
Sacred Feathers
The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories...
by Graeme Mount
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2000
In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause. It was disregarded as a useless, poorly located post. But when war was delcared, the garrison at Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle:...
A Kingston Album
Glimpses of the Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
This album follows the history of Kingston from the founding of Fort Frontenac and the accompanying French settlement of Cataraqui in 1673 to its present-day incarnation as a popular tourist and travel destination. In addition to its fine military tradition, Kingston has also been the centre of commerce,...
Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1985
A revised and greatly expanded eition of this important and long out of print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to A Handbook of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates of all parliaments, and judges and...
Tom Thomson
Journal of My Last Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Tom Thomson, as the famous Canadian landscape artist, gave Canada its most enduring icons, The Jack Pine and The West Wind. But Tom Thomson, as a private man, remains an enigma. Little is known about the man and even less is known about his personal thoughts, feelings and struggles with his art and...
The Legacy of John Waldie and Sons
A History of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist...