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The Secret Mulroney Tapes
Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another.
Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B....
O.D. Skelton
The Work of the World, 1923-1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
O.D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 is a lively and compelling trip through the letters, diary entries, and official memoranda of O.D. Skelton, one of the most important and influential civil servants in twentieth-century Canada. Skelton was a towering foreign policy advisor to Canada's...
The Age of Light, Soap, and Water
Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
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The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”
Mariana...
Fool For Christ
The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of...
by Bill Zuk
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Bush pilots haul cargo to remote reserves along the West Coast of Canada. They ferry big-game hunters to base camps and fly-in fishermen to remote lodges. They take nature photographers to scenic vistas and archaeological explorers to their latest dig.
Bush pilots and the planes they have flown are...
by Victor Teboul
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
About this Book
In 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In the midst of this crisis, Victor Teboul’s Mythe et images...
Heat
A Firefighter's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The human story behind Canada's worst chemical fire
"Why you leaving Stelco?" the friend asked the rookie firefighter.
"'Cause it's hot and dirty and I don't like shifts."
Enter the world of Hamilton's firefighters. Theirs is a smouldering, combustible workplace, and in the effort...
Polish Orphans of Tengeru
The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943.
As...
Invisible Immigrants
The English in Canada since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major...
by Doug Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
When it comes to Q&A trivia, Doug Lennox has no peer. Sir Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Laura Secord, Norman Bethune, Terry Fox, and Roberta Bondar are all Canadian icons we've come to cherish. Doug gives the dope on all those famous heroes and many more, but you'll also discover the amazing courage, pluck,...
The Maple Leaf and the White Cross
A History of St. John Ambulance and the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
As a foundation of the Order of St. John, St. John Ambulance has been providing first aid training programs in Canada for the past 125 years. From the sweatshops of the Victorian era and military hospitals of the First World War to a modern-day volunteer organization devoted to the service of humanity,...
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hamilton : (Canada) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hamilton : (Canada) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hamilton : (Canada) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
Canada After the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted
Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|
The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change,...