Canada category: 4109 books
The Luck of the Karluk
Shipwrecked in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community....
by Lance Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada's role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant. Canadian forces played a major role in this campaign, whose goal was to open a second front in order to ease the pressure on Russian forces in the east....
Canada's Rumrunners
Incredible Adventures and Exploits During Canada's Illicit Liquor Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"...despite flying bullets and cannon shots, Ben had his crew hastily tossing evidence over the side of the boat. Bullet-riddled, the Maritimas finally came to a stop, but even then, the crew continued to throw the beer overboard." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers...
Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss
Figuring the Social
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler,...
The Invisible War
The Untold Secret Story of Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
While the Second World War raged in Europe, demanding most of Canada’s military effort, an equally fierce war with Japan was going on in the Far East. Army, navy, and air force signals units in Canada kept watch on the enemy’s vital radio communications. To be more effective, Number One Canadian...
The Burning of the Valleys
Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontier of New York. Their primary target was the Mohawk River region, known to be the "grainbowl"...
Party of One
Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
InParty of One,investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between...
Schools Out for Summer (storey 28 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In the back of a station wagon five kids pause in their bickering to push noses up against the long side window of the car. Dusk is creeping down the sharp mountain canyons casting a rosy glow over the limestone and shale. Far, far below on the curving highway along the Columbia River, a huge movie...
Ships of Wood and Men of Iron
A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful...
Moving Beyond Borders
A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...
The Conclusion
Sunshine Coast B.C. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
If you feel confused by the chronological order of the latest episodes of the Adventures of the Audrey Eleanor, you should be. Quite frankly I left the “rat” episodes until last because I struggle with the nightmare of them still. This was not the summer that we envisioned; it was a fight from...
King's Men
The Soldier Founders of Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
King's Men is the story of the Loyalist regiments who became the soldier founders of the Province of Ontario, the Loyal Colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, Canadian Command, during the American revolution.
Mythology on the United Empire Loyalists who founded two Canadian...
Paras Versus the Reich
Canada's Paratroopers at War, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
This meticulously researched book traces the development of airborne forces from their earliest mythology to their earth-shattering debut in the Second World War. More importantly, it reveals in exacting detail the story of Canada's paratroopers - from the early resistance to their establishment,...