Canada category: 4109 books
On Canadian Wings
A Century of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Be prepared to soar! Whether you are an aviation enthusiast, history buff, or air traveller, don‘t miss the third in a series of photo essays on aviation in Canada, covering almost 100 years of flight by Canadians. Dramatic visuals accompany each step of aviation‘s advances, from Canada‘s first...
Les Apathiques et les rebelles
Des exemples canadiens de mutinerie et de désobeissance, 1812 à 1919
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Il y a des siècles que les soldats canadiens servent honorablement leur pays. Il est toutefois arrivé que leur conduite ait été tout sauf honorable! Que ce soit en désobeissant aux ordres, en terrorisant la population locale ou en commettant divers crimes, certains soldats se sont comportés...
Into the Blizzard
Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and through and under.”
So begins Michael Winter’s extraordinary narrative that follows...
Cabin Number 5
Coastal British Columbia Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Cabins float in a cut-off fjord of British Columbia's south coast, where mountains drop into the sea and lifestyles focus on self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. One man tackles an on-going dream to construct a floating cabin on Powell Lake, from the water up - not his first, but his finest....
60 Years Behind the Wheel
The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
From rumble seats and running boards to power tops and tailfins, 60 Years Behind the Wheel captures the thrill of motoring in Canada from the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960. There are intriguing stories of cars with no steering wheels, and fascinating photographs of historic vehicles from across...
A Winnipeg Album
Glimpses of the Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then...
Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship
Arctic Ghost Ship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.
In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the...
World War II Women 3-Book Bundle
The Accidental Captives / Greatcoats and Glamour Boots / Props on Her Sleeves
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice marked the women caught up in conflict during the Second World War. This special collection of three books tells the stories of a young airwoman, prisoners of war, and women in service.
Includes:
The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Along in Nazi...
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture,...
Old Boys
The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Ranging across three generations, the "old boys" of Upper Canada College, the flagship of the country's elite prep schools, recount with extraordinary candour and insight the ways in which their lives were shaped -- and in some cases scarred -- by their experiences at UCC. Besides...
Viscount Haldane
'The Wicked Step-father of the Canadian Constitution'
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada's highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely...
The Sense of Power
Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement – which held that Canada could only become a great nation within the British...
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s diary, with its daily weather observations,...
by Bill Warden
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In this timely memoir, the late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the brink of nuclear annihilation. Diplomat, Dissident, Spook relays firsthand the experiences of this former Canadian...