Douglas Mcintyre imprint: 96 books
One Family's Journey
Canfor and the Transformation of British Columbia's Forest Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Peter Bentley recounts the exciting journey shared with his esteemed father, Leopold "Poldi" Bentley, and his uncle in the building of a major forest products company.
Bentley has a unique perspective on the rise and fall - and the subsequent reinvention - of western Canada's forest...
The Ice Pilots
Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
As seen on TV!
The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From...
A Year of Living Generously
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A Year of Living Generously follows award-winning journalist Lawrence Scanlan as he volunteers with 12 different charities, among them well-known institutions Habitat for Humanity, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Canadian Crossroads.
Drawing from first-hand experiences - serving in a soup...
Rick Hansen
Man in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Celebrating beloved Canadian artists, the Collected series is beautifully designed with an affordable format, ideal for gift buyers and visitors. Canadian artist Ted Harrison began to paint as a young boy in school, and in the years since, has both worked and taught as an artist, an illustrator, and...
Spindrift
A Canadian Book of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
"an excellent anthology … a lovely project"
--Silver Donald Cameron
Given that Canada has the longest coastline in the world and its motto is "From Sea unto Sea," it is not surprising that virtually every Canadian writer has been inspired to write about some aspect...
Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson
Rescuing Canadian Business From the Suds of Global Obscurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Canada has all the makings of a global leader, yet it has opted to become a laggard, frittering away its jackpot of rich resources rather than building viable multinationals that are ultimately the country’s best defence in a globalized world. Andrea Mandel-Campbell interviews some of Canada’s...
by Terry Reksten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning...
Hockey Fight in Canada
The Big Media Faceoff over the NHL
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
In late 2013, Canadians were intrigued to learn the NHL chose Rogers as its exclusive national broadcaster over both CBC and Rogers’s bitter rival, Bell Canada. The decision was met with equal parts fascination, shock and anger. When CBC rank-and-file employees came to believe their leaders...
King
William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions....
Empty Casing
A Soldier's Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette went to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different from anything he had previously experienced. And it was. Doucette's tour quickly became an impossible task that took a huge toll on both the residents...
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation.
The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles...
Breakout From Juno
First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.
On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent...
A Line in the Sand
Canadians at War in Kandahar
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
In 200708, Dr. Ray Wiss, a former infantry officer, served with the Canadian Forces at forward operating bases in Khandahar's Panjwayi valley, the area experiencing the most intense combat in Afghanistan. He spent more time in the combat area than any other Canadian physician, and his successful...