James Lorimer Company Ltd Publishers: 361 books
by Michael Coldwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The Cape Breton Grizzly Bears are a bad news basketball team--they haven't won a single game all season. But the rules say a team from their region has to play in the Nova Scotia Invitational Tournament in Halifax, and they're it.
Their "star" player is the harebrained Chip Carson,...
Canada's Colonies
A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Furs, gold, whales, oil--the reason for going north has always been to empty the treasure house. The northern territories are vast and sparsely populated, so southern Canadians have been content to consider the North a colony, not a true part of Canada.
Since the first British naval expeditions...
Within the Barbed Wire Fence
A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo's passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as tanka.
Then came the Second World War. Takeo Nakano was one of thousands of Japanese men forcibly separated...
Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces
The contentious history of the Canadian federation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces tells the story of the politicians who continually contend over the division of power (and money) between Ottawa and the provinces. The heroes and villains of this story include many of the leading lights of Canadian history, from John A. Macdonald, Wilfred...
Secrets of Lake Simcoe
Fascinating stories from Ontario's past
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
A lively book illustrated with archival photos, Secrets of Lake Simcoe is a valuable addition to local history collections and provides a refreshing way for anyone to view what some consider to be Canada's sixth Great Lake.
At the heart of central Ontario, Lake Simcoe has played an important...
by Renée Dupuis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Canada's political leaders tirelessly proclaim it the best country on earth in which to live, a land of plenty and of boundless opportunity for all. Canada's Aboriginal peoples view things differently: after decades of living in legislatively determined Third World conditions, many are demanding the...
by Tom Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
When Tom Douglas's father returned home after the Second World War, he was forced to move his family from Sault Ste. Marie north to Wawa, where he was the timekeeper at the Helen Mine. Although his parents were upset by the move, Tom was thrilled. In the forties, Wawa was still a wooden-sidewalked...
The Rise of the New West
The History of a Region in Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This one-volume history chronicles a 150-year history of dramatic changes in fortune and attitudes in western Canada.
From the Riel Rebellions and the Winnipeg General Strike to the founding of the CCF, Social Credit, and Reform parties, Canada's West has always been a hotbed of political,...
Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands
The Idealistic Canadians Who Built the NDP
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
As an idealist and a visionary, Jack Layton connected with millions of Canadians who saw that he was a different kind of political leader. So did Tommy Douglas, chosen as the greatest Canadian ever by CBC's television audience.
The New Democratic Party and its predecessor, the CCF, have often...
Robert Latimer
A story of justice and mercy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In October 1993, Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, decided to end the life of his chronically ill daughter rather than subject her to another painful surgery. Tracy, who had the mental capacity of a five-month-old infant, was twelve at the time of her death. She had already endured multiple operations...
Ignatieff's World Updated
Iggy goes to Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Federal politics have been transformed by the rapid decline of the Canadian economy and Michael Ignatieff's emergence as the leader of the Liberal party. But when it comes to policy matters, how different is Ignatieff from Stephen Harper?
In this book Denis Smith examines Michael Ignatieff...
Fearmonger
Stephen Harper's Tough-on-Crime Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
According to Statistics Canada, all crime rates -- including violent crime -- have been trending downward over the last twenty years. Yet the Harper government continues to insist Canadians are in the midst of a crime epidemic. This is their rationale for spending billions on new prisons, and for...
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68
The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Gunboats on the Great Lakes tells the story of the three British gunboats which patrolled the Great Lakes as the politicians finalized the Confederation deal, and Irish nationalists recruited Civil War veterans and staged armed raids on Canada. The Fenians, a secret society of Irish immigrants in...
by Beverly Scudamore
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Remy and Alison play on rival soccer teams. Remy hasn't trusted Alison ever since her former friend attended an elite soccer camp in England last summer. When Remy finds out Alison has a special plan to beat Remy's team in the tournament, she becomes convinced that Alison will sabotage her team's...