Canada category: 4109 books
Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders
Tales of Canada's Fur Traders
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey...
The Wild Frontier
More Tales from the Remarkable Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary;...
Nation Builders
Barnardo Children in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada. Through first-hand accounts and archived materials, Corbett sensitively and accurately...
Canoe Country
The Making of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.
From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the...
by Charles Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
It started out as a simple idea: Charles Gordon and his wife, Nancy, drive across Canada. Starting from Ottawa they drove east through Quebec, through New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, where they learned about “soap for the moose.” From St. John’s they headed west on a different...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Great White North is revealed as the Great Weird North in this entertaining tome from the best-selling Bathroom Reader series.
Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga? That’s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting readers in Uncle John’s quirky celebration of Earth’s...
Flight from Famine
The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop,...
Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants
A Fish and Timber Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
First in a trilogy on Irish immigration to Canada
Debunks the popular opinion that the potato famine was the formative event in Irish settlement in North America
A definitive study, which includes all known passenger lists from the period
Extensively illustrated, with numerous maps revealing Irish settlement...
Redpath
The History of a Sugar House
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic...
Loyalties in Conflict
A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion,1812-1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was...
Parkin
Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.
Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he...
Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle
The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada at that time. The Toronto business that was conducted...
Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools....
John J. Robinette
Peerless Mentor: An Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
John J. Robinette, Canada's greatest trial lawyer, was admired and respected by the bench and his fellow lawyers alike. A quiet, unassuming man outside the courtroom, he was a consummate performer when appearing before a judge and jury.
Robinette became a household name as the defender of Evelyn...