Canada category: 4109 books
by Donald Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Donald Jones' walking tours of Toronto have drawn crowds of up to 5000 at a time. His 'Historic Toronto' column in the Star has proved one of the city's most widely read newspaper features. Now for the first time he has gathered together some of his personal favourites – stories of triumph and treachery,...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada’s history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil...
The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston
North America and Lower Canada, 1796–1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel.Although most travel publications of the eighteenth century were written by men, those by women, perhaps most famously Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, were also widely read.
The Travel Journals of Henrietta...
The Fenian Season
A Canadian Historical Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This fast paced historical thriller takes place against the background of a rising Fenian movement in the United States and the overt hostility of Washington toward the ‘Canadas’ immediately after the American Civil War. The Fenian Brotherhood was dedicated to the freeing of Ireland from ‘British...
Nanarluk, Super Bear (storey 35 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Pierre Elliott Trudea is the Prime Minister of Canada. He will be doing a tour of the Arctic. The buzz around here is that he may be coming to Coppermine N.W.T., for a visit. Nothing has been confirmed, everyone is in a tizzy, we must do something special for the Prime Minister of Canada. What do...
Betrayal of Trust:
Commander Wyatt and the Halifax Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Before the Halifax Explosion, F. Evan Wyatt was a recently-married officer with a promising career in the Royal Canadian Navy. He also enjoyed popularity among those in the city’s elite society. But little else is known about the only man indicted for allegedly causing the disaster.
The French...
by Frédéric Smith
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2012
En juin 1940, la France capitule devant l'Allemagne nazie. Depuis Londres, la voix d'un général inconnu, Charles de Gaulle, s'élève pour inviter ses compatriotes à poursuivre le combat. C'est la naissance de la France libre. Le 1er août, de Gaulle lance un appel particulier au Canada français...
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Cet ouvrage inclut l’ensemble des observations qu’Alexis de Tocqueville a rédigées sur la nation française nord-américaine lors de son voyage en terroitoire nord-américain, au mois d’août de 1831. Tocqueville annonce son intention de faire ce qu’il décrit comme “le voyage à la mode...
by Charles W. Colby
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1915. "The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed the form of an organized province. Though its inhabitants numbered...
by Goldwin Smith, George H. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
"The rapid growth of the French population in the Canadian provinces and the New England States has given rise to much speculation as to the future of the race. Thoughtful men in the Dominion see in its steady increase and aggressive character elements of danger to the stability of the Confederation....
by Christopher McCreery
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This updated, full-colour illustrated book recounts the history of Canada’s various national orders, decorations, and medals.
This expanded and updated edition of The Canadian Honours System surveys the history of Canada’s various orders, decorations, and medals, from New France’s Croix...
by A.B. McKillop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The leaps of knowledge in nineteenth-century science shook the foundations of religious and humanistic values throughout much of the world. The Darwinian Revolution and similar developments presented enormous philosophical challenges to Canadian scientists, philosophers, and men of letters. Their...
Pearson's Peacekeepers
Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's...