Canada category: 4109 books
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From...
Strange Days
Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada’s history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Quebec and the Canadas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec,...
Joseph-Elzéar Bernier
Capitaine de l’Arctic
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Joseph-Elzéar Bernier est un des plus illustres explorateurs et navigateurs du Canada. Né en 1852 à L’Islet-sur-Mer dans une famille de grands navigateurs, il deviendra lui-même capitaine à l’âge de 17 ans seulement. Animé d’une passion sans borne pour l’Arctique, il mènera plus de...
by Bill Cotter
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2016
En 1967, le Canada fêtait le centième anniversaire de son existence avec une fête spectaculaire, et tout le monde a été invité. L'Expo 67 de Montréal était la première exposition internationale à avoir lieu au Canada et c'était une grande réussite, qui a attiré plus de 50 millions de...
by FRANÇOIS XAVIER GARNEAU
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Jacques I divisa la partie du continent américain, située entre les 34e et 45edegrés de latitude, en deux vastes provinces : la Virginie et la Nouvelle-Angleterre. La première fut concédée à une compagnie de Londres, et la seconde, à des marchands de Plymouth avec le droit de les établir...
by Elwood A. Clum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
It has been over a century since news of the gold rush burst upon the world. Some say there will never be another single event involving so much treasure and adventure. In Points of Interest, Elwood Clum recollects two gold-rush-inspired family road trips to the Klondike in Canada’s Yukon Territory...
The Halifax Explosion
Canada's Worst Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That accident sparked a fire and an apocalyptic explosion that was the largest man-made blast prior to the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima....
Coal Black Heart
The Story of Coal and Lives it Ruled
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters.
The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply...
A Great Game
The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Drawing on extensive archival records and illustrations, histories of the sport, and newspaper files, Canada’s Prime Minister delves into the fascinating early years of ice hockey.
In the tumultuous beginnings of hockey, the fights were as much off the ice as on it. This engaging new book...
by John Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch!
The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 26–30
William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: nineteenth century railway builder William C. Van Horne; early nineteenth century governor and fur baron George Simpson; legendary Group of Seven-associated...
The Capital Years
Niagara-on-the-Lake 1792-1796
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1996
The Capital Years is being published to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the opening of the first parliament of Upper Canada.
Nine scholars have contributed to this book, which explores the daily life of the inhabitants during the time period 1792-1796 when the area served as the capital...
Canada's Other Game
Basketball from Naismith to Nash
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Basketball, the only major world sport undeniably invented by a Canadian, has ironically failed to win Canadians’ hearts more than a century after its creation. James Naismith’s brainchild is a popular recreational pastime in his homeland, but players with bigger dreams had better take their talents...