Douglas And Mcintyre 2013 Ltd : 94 books
Take Us to Your Chief
And Other Stories: Classic Science-Fiction with a Contemporary First Nations Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing...
Pause
An Emily Carr Sketch Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
While studying art in London, Emily Carr seriously undermined her health and was sent to a sanatorium for a complete rest cure. Bridling at the hospital’s rules, which prohibited excitement of any kind, the always rebellious Carr proceeded to make friends, raise birds, and cause trouble. In words...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Because We Are Canadians: A Battlefield Memoir
A Battlefield Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This is the story of one man’s war—the memoirs of Sgt. Charles D. Kipp, who served with the Canadian army on active duty in Europe during the bloody days and weeks following D-Day. What makes this work stand out from other Second World War battlefield journals is its unadorned, almost naive sense—a...
FOB Doc
A Doctor On the Front Lines in Afghanistan - A War Diary
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadian doctor who spent nearly his entire tour in combat. Captain Ray Wiss was stationed at Forward Operating Bases - FOBs - in Khandahar province,...