Dundurn imprint: 1894 books
William C. Van Horne
Railway Titan
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Ralway. The railroading general pushed...
The Man Who Carried Cash
Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
The unlikely, rocky relationship between an American country superstar and his straightlaced Canadian manager.
Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. The Man Who Carried Cash chronicles a relationship that was both volatile and affectionate between Johnny Cash and his...
Tom Thomson
Artist of the North
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman's innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images...
The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson
Separating Fact from Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
**A National Post Bestseller!
How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917?**
Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight?...
Driven to Succeed
How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation...
A Mind at Sea
Henry Fry and the Glorious Era of Quebec's Sailing Ships
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec.
A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd’s agent for...
I Choose To Live
A Self-Made Millionaire Faces Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
By the time he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007, Mischa Weisz had all he needed to face the fight of his life. A child of Holocaust survivors, he felt distant from his parents and had no idea of his own heritage until he was well into his teens - too late to adopt it as his own.
When...
Generation Deluxe
Consumerism and Philanthropy of the New Super-Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2004
They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life. Simultaneously,...
Art Ross
The Hockey Legend Who Built the Bruins
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015
The first authorized biography of Art Ross, Hockey Hall of Famer, NHL founding father, and long-time member of the Boston Bruins.
Though he last played the game nearly one hundred years ago, Art Ross remains connected with the greatest stars in hockey. Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky,...
Becoming a Somebody
The Biography of Ignat Kaneff
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2019
The fascinating life story of Ignat Kaneff, one of Canada’s leading residential and commercial builders.
When Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951, he had a mere five dollars to his name, no proficiency in English, and very little education. Yet, this was the beginning of one of Canada’s...
Staying in the Game
The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Peter C. Newman called him "the Totem of the Titans." From a small Prairie town, Daryl K. "Doc" Seaman became an icon of Canadian business and hockey. He is one of the last of a breed of postwar entrepreneurs and sportsmen who forged modern Canada, striking deals on a handshake...
by Liona Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd.
Few people’s lives are as romantic and adventurous as Liona Boyd’s has been. She has performed around the world, sold millions of albums, won five Juno awards, serenaded numerous heads of state, and, for eight years, dated...
Celine
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Simply entitled Celine, this is the long-awaited, authorized biography of Celine Dion, the rags-to-riches story of a woman who has become the leading recording artist in the world.
First published in French in Quebec in December 1997, Celine has sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Quebec alone....
by Lise Dion
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life...