Canada category: 4109 books
Niagara Falls
Seeing Canada Through a Window of Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ask a foreigner what he or she thinks about when Canada is mentioned, and the answer is likely to be Niagara Falls. It's the image that most defines us, for better or for worse, and no matter how inaccurately. But what does the place say about this country? Not all of the answers to that question are...
Mountain City Girls
The McGarrigle Family Album
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The first book and definitive family memoir from Anna and Jane McGarrigle, sisters to Kate McGarrigle and aunts of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. This book is truly a classic in the making.
The McGarrigles are known around the world for their touching, insightful songs about love, loss and...
Every Trail Has a Story
Heritage Travel in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
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Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries. From the Majorville rock formation (dated as being older...
Flim Flam
Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern...
Generally Speaking
The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer is arguably Canada's most decorated citizen. A commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, his career began in World War II where he earned the reputation as one of Canada's top Mustang reconnaissance pilots. For his service, which...
Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists
The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened...
Climber's Paradise
Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels, souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971 The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as...
Seeking a Better Future
The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.
Drawing...
Death or Canada
The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This important book about the Irish famine of 1847 and its impact on the city of Toronto tells a story that is still relatively unknown to most of Toronto’s citizens. Historian Mark McGowan delves beneath the surface of statistics and brings to light the stories of men and women who had to face...
Emancipation Day
Celebrating Freedom in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 31–35
Harriet Tubman / Laura Secord / Joey Smallwood / Prince Edward, Duke of Kent / John A. Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: legendary Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman; Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812; Newfoundland politician Joey Smallwood, the final...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Pierre Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
Trudeau began his political career as a lawyer, intellectual, and activist in Quebec politics. In the 1960s, he entered federal politics by joining the Liberal...
The Plaunt Family of Renfrew
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
A family history spanning twelve generations that reaches into the roots of Ontario, north and south. This is the story of the Plaunt (Plante) family from their original home in Larochelle France, to Quebec, and later to Ontario in a fascinating history that spans twelve generations in Canada, and...
King
William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions....