Canada category: 4109 books
Hostages to Fortune
The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada.
In 1776, tensions...
The American Invasion of Canada
The War of 1812's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
“If history could be taught in the schools the way Berton writes about it, there wouldn’t be a more popular subject on the curriculum.” —The Globe and Mail
Of all the wars fought by the English-speaking peoples, this was one of the strangest—a war entered into blindly and fought (also...
Legacy
How French Canadians Shaped North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret Atwood, Lucien Bouchard, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Ken Dryden, etc. -- tells the story of the extraordinary legacy of the French contribution to our...
Tecumseh
Shooting Star, Crouching Panther
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Shawnee war chief Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping American expansion and preserving the lands and cultures of North American Aboriginal peoples. He travelled relentlessly trying to build a confederation of tribes that would stop the territorial ambitions of the newly created United States...
The Underground Railroad
The long journey to freedom in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Slavery existed throughout the western Hemisphere, but after its abolition in the British empire it persisted for decades in much of the U.S. Even in states where slavery was illegal, slaves were subject to capture and return to their owners. The only sure escape was to cross the border into Canada.
The...
The Promised Land
History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the...
Canadians
A Portrait Of A Country And Its People
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Who are we? In Canadians, one of Canada’s most intelligent and beloved writers maps our national psyche in a wonderful and ambitious work. Canadians is an entertaining portrait of this country and its people, through its history, popular culture, literature, sport, landscape, and weather. In his...
1000 Questions About Canada
Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
What are "snow worms"?
Are there more moose than people in the Yukon?
What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"?
Where will you find the world’s largest perogy?
Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him?
What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s...
The National Dream
The Great Railway, 1871-1881
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness — was to change the lives of every man, woman...
Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons
British Remittance Men in the Canadian West
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Remittance man’ was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the colonies to spare their families continuing embarrassment or shame. At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in
the Canadian...
Miss Confederation
The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
History without the stiffness and polish time creates.
Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers...
by Pierre Berton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had...
Flames Across the Border
1813-1814
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth...
Citizen of the World
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
One of the most important, exciting biographies of our time: the definitive, major two-volume biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau – written with unprecedented, complete access to Trudeau’s enormous cache of private letters and papers.
Bestselling biographer John English gets behind the...