Canada category: 4109 books
Treasures of the CNE
Memorabilia and Tales from the Canadian National Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
One of the leading collectors of memorabilia from the Canadian National Exhibition tells the stories of “The Ex”. Celebrating a joyful feature of our country’s heritage, the full-colour photos of the author’s extensive collection of cherished memorabilia from the CNE bring to life a bygone era....
Whitehern Historic House and Garden
Inside Hamilton's Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. In this special excerpt we visit Whitehern historic home and garden, which comes with three generations' worth of family possessions —...
They Called Me Number One
Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings;...
by Christine McClure, Dennis McClure
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through...
Quarriers Story
One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields...
Breakfast at the Hoito
And Other Adventures in the Boreal Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior’s north shore … on wilds and wildlife, people and places.
Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay. Discover the secret life of ravens; the passions...
Nothing On But the Radio
A Look Back at Radio in Canada and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Radio made its debut in the early twentieth century, and the world was never the same. The mysterious magic box brought people together as no other communication medium had ever done. In Nothing On but the Radio, author Gil Murray tells how the new household toy put voices and music into millions...
Blackouts to Bright Lights
Canadian War Bride Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The stories convey courage and humour: qualities that carried the war...
Le Tour du monde en 240 jours
Le Canada et les États-Unis
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Extrait : "Voici encore deux lignes datées de l'Europe, puis je prends le bateau, et ma prochaine lettre sera de l'Atlantique, et ensuite du Nouveau-Monde."
Nastawgan
The Canadian North by Canoe & Snowshoe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1987
A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem -- it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical Association to be the best book published of its year on the regional...
Adventures in the West
Henry Halpin, Fur Trader and Indian Agent
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada’s native peoples, was thrice employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and became an Indian agent (18851901). Halpin’s work took him from Fort Garry, Manitoba, to Fort York...
Thompson's Highway
The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie...
Sault Ste. Marie and Beyond
A History of Its People 17th - 21st Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
History, as it happened, on both sides of the turbulent rapids at the Sault, dividing a settlement into two countries. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and southern Lake Superior, historical characters tell their stories in their own words: the Anishinaabe defeating the destructive Iroquois; the...
Canoe Crossings
Understanding the Craft that Helped Shape British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Often called one of the Seven Wonders of Canada, the canoe has played a particularly important role in British Columbia. This seemingly simple watercraft allowed coastal First Nations to hunt on the open ocean and early explorers to travel the province’s many waterways. Always at the crossroads...