Canada category: 4109 books
High Peaks Engineering
Rocky Mountain Marvels
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded thanks to scientific innovation and sheer human grit. In the nineteenth century,...
The Underground Railroad
Next Stop, Toronto!
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black...
To Climb a Mountain
Growing Up in the Canadian West: Adventure Amid History and Turmoil
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
In the 1900s, the dream of owning their own land draws thousands of immigrants to the Canadian West. One of them is Billy King, an adventurous youngster who emigrates from England with his family to a rough-and-tumble Saskatchewan town and then over the Rocky Mountains to a very different way of life...
by Mark Kearney, Randy Ray
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Here in one big book is all the trivia and facts about Canada anyone needs to know. The Big Book is jam-packed with facts and stories. There are stories of important Canadian artifacts and history including what became of Canada's World War II spy camp. All regions and provinces are covered, as well...
Coast to Coast
Hockey in Canada to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover,...
Whisky and Ice
The Saga of Ben Kerr, Canada's Most Daring Rumrunner
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
During the Roaring Twenties, Ben Kerr was known as the "King of the Rumrunners." The U.S. Coast Guard put him at the top of the most-wanted list and offered a reward of $5,000. But ending up in Club Fed was not Kerr's only worry - he had to contend with Hamilton crime lords Rocco and Bessie...
Flying Canucks II
Pioneers of Canadian Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation. Technologies evolve and national priorities change, but the qualities necessary to design aircraft, fly them in war and peace, and manage airlines remain constant. In this,...
The Promised Land
Settling the West 1896-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
The Golden Dream
A History of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project...
Toronto Neighbourhoods 7-Book Bundle
A City in the Making / Unbuilt Toronto / Unbuilt Toronto 2 / Leaside / Opportunity Road / Willowdale / The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The Toronto Neighbourhoods bundle presents a collection of titles that provide fascinating insight into the history and development of Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Beginning with histories of Canada’s longest street and the early days of what was once called York (The Yonge Street Story,...
Call in Pinkerton's
American Detectives at Work for Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton’s is the history of the agency’s work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces.
During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth...
Patterns of the Past
Interpreting Ontario's History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote...
The Anniversary Compulsion
Canada's Centennial Celebrations: A Model Mega-Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year’s celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives.
Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced...
Time Travel
Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of...