Canada category: 4109 books

According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist... Early in his career, Leacock turned to fiction, humour, and short reports to supplement (and ultimately exceed) his regular income. His stories, first published in magazines...

Ce mini-guide numérique présente un circuit découverte à travers le Canada Olympic Park et le nord de Calgary. Tout en couleurs, ce guide indique les attraits à ne pas manquer, les restaurants, les cafés, les belles boutiques, les bars et les boîtes de nuit de cette partie de la ville. L’outil...

6 Oeuvres de Louis-Joseph Papineau Avocat et homme politique québécois (1786-1871) Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 6 Oeuvres de Louis-Joseph Papineau éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...

Voici un extrait du guide Ulysse sur les Provinces maritimes du Canada - le Nouveau-Brunswick, la Nouvelle-Écosse, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Terre-Neuve et le Labrador. Il vous propose une solide introduction pour préparer votre voyage dans ces Provinces atlantiques, ou tout simplement mieux les...

"Una scena culturale vivace, un ricco panorama gastronomico e avventurosi itinerari on the road: il fascino del Canada va ben oltre la natura spettacolare e l'infinita varietà dei paesaggi" (Korina Miller, autrice Lonely Planet). Il secondo paese più grande del mondo ha un'infinita varietà...

National bestseller Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world. “The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2) “From the moment I flipped...

"These dedicated men and women gave blood, sweat, and tears as their contribution - And now, it really happened, our beloved bird was in the air." - Ray Boone, A.V. Roe Canada employee. In the 1950s, A. V. Roe Canada was at the forefront of aviation development worldwide. After building...

This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith. His...

A moment in time. It’s rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It’s rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention usually results from group trauma...

In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of "makers" transformed itself into a nation of "takers". Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back - back to a time when Canadians...

Toronto (Canada) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Ottawa (Canada) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety — no single volume will ever do that — but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps...

The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry...