Canada category: 4109 books
Smitten by Canada!
Another %!@^! Travel Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Told with humor and a true travelers fascination with new places and adventure, this book provides a country wide glimpse of Canada and its bounty of travel opportunities and experiences. Based on the author's observations and his daughters journal transcripts of their journey together, a vibrant...
The Last Invasion of Canada
The Fenian Raids, 1866 – 1870
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1991
In the turbulent decade which produced the Canadian Confederation of 1867, a group of seasoned veterans of the American Civil War turned their attention to the conquest of Canada. They were Irish-American revolutionaries — unique because they fought under their own flag. They were know as the Fenians...
Art and Politics
The History of the National Arts Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
This is the story of the creation and first four decades of one of Canada's pre-eminent cultural organizations. While it documents the history of Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, it also tells the story of the arts in Canada from the 1960s to 2006. The story breaks down into three parts: the...
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art,...
Adapting in the Dust
Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers...
by Edward Watkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Canada and the States Edward Watkin, british Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur (1819-1901)
This ebook presents «Canada and the States», from Edward Watkin. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents -01- About...
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
VSO Labrador Clues
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1960-70
Series Title: Voluntary Service Overseas Vol. 1 By Llewelyn Pritchard Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard Smashwords Edition
Have you ever thought about helping other people not as fortunate as yourself?
Well,...
Roads to Confederation
The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone...
Eugene Forsey, Canada's Maverick Sage
Canada's Maverick Sage
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Eugene Forsey combined vision with protest and erudition with wit.
A legacy for the common good: Eugene Forsey’s wit and wisdom.
Feisty and erudite, Eugene Alfred Forsey (1904-1991) was an activist scholar, labour researcher, constitutional expert, and senator who fought all his life...
Canadian Railways 2-Book Bundle
Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways / Great Western Railway of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Transportation history buffs rejoice. Ride the rails and the waves in this special two-book collection on the great railways from Canada’s past.
Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways
The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime...
by R.T. Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
When Canada in the European Age 1453-1919 was first published it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights in...
Dixie & the Dominion
Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Dixie & the Dominion is a compelling look at how the U.S. Civil War was a shared experience that shaped the futures of both Canada and the United States. The book focuses on the last year of the war, between April of 1864 and 1865. During that 12-month period, the Confederate States sent spies...
Legends In Their Time
Young Heroes and Victims of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2006
A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of Legends In Their Time, each having a significant role to play in Canadian history. Beginning in the 1500s and moving on into the 20th century, each chapter contributes insights into the evolution of Canada as a nation.
Author...
This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized...