Canada category: 4109 books
Norma & Gladys
The Famous Newfoundland Knockabout Schooner
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador’s industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasting freight to remote seaside towns. Her story also illustrates the worst examples of the province’s...
Wisdom, Justice and Charity
Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom’s transnational career took her...
Canadian Forces in Afghanistan 3-Book Bundle
No Easy Task / No Ordinary Men / No Lack of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Canadian Forces, including Special Operations Forces, have played an outsize role in the conflict in Afghanistan, often under a cloak of secrecy. For the first time, Col. Bernd Horn reveals the stories of the troops and operations behind Canada’s pivotal involvement in the Afghanistan conflict.
No...
Fight to the Finish
Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book Award
The magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**
Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World...
Inside Canadian Intelligence
Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today's world, secret intelligence is not just the first line of defence -- it may be the only one. Editor Dwight Hamilton has assembled a formidable cast of former intelligence officers and journalists...
Death Wins in the Arctic
The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous...
The North West Passage Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt.
This book charts the full history of the exploration...
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
by Matthew Bin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of stories about Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day. The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually...
Bringing Out The Untold Life: Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray
Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Canadian Morse Code Operator Chronicles Nine Decades In Historic Cape Breton Fishing Village. Mildred Gray is acknowledged as the last surviving government-employed Morse Code operator and one of the last surviving manual switchboard operators in the Canadian Maritime provinces. Between the 1940s...
For Valour
Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.
As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s...
The Loyalists
Revolution Exile Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States.
As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face...
Roberta Bondar
The Exceptional Achievements of Canada's first Woman Astronaut
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
"The feeling in space flight is like hanging by your heels...with all the blood rushing to your head. ...You feel as though you are at the top of a roller coaster when your stomach feels like it is going to lift off." - Dr. Roberta Bondar. This book will be especially fascinating for all...
SickKids
The History of The Hospital for Sick Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the...