Canada category: 4109 books
Acting for Freedom
Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over...
Broken Shackles
Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective...
Freedom to Play
We Made Our Own Fun
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s?
Recollections of older Canadians, selections from writings by Canadian authors and...
Canada the Good
A Short History of Vice since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Chapter 4: No Longer Vices: Call Them Health Issues, 1920 to the Present
Marcel Martel
Vices came to be known by different names. Although Churches, police forces, and fellow citizens continued to condemn those who transgressed “normal” behaviours, transgressions were now often diagnosed...
by D.N. Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children without any of the safeguards...
Bobbie Rosenfeld
The Olympian Who Could Do Everything
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Sportswriters and broadcasters in this country agree that Bobbie Rosenfeld may be Canada’s greatest female athlete of the twentieth century. A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in a small Russian town and came to Canada with her immigrant parents when she was less than a month old. Her...
East of Superior
True Wilderness Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The stories in this book are all based on real-life experiences. They often involve events ranging from frigid winter excursions to canoeing life threatening river rapids in the wilds north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Come and join the author, his wife, and many different folks of all ages...
St. John's: A Brief History
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
St. John’s: A Brief History provides a concise, comprehensive overview of Newfoundland history and modern St. John’s. The book describes how, through war and the fishery, Newfoundland became settled, a colony, a Dominion of the British Empire and a province of Canada. The book highlights the landmarks...
Wild Country
The Best of Andy Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Canada’s mountain man shares his best wilderness adventure stories
Though Andy Russell has been many things in his life – hunter, trapper, trail guide, wilderness photographer and filmmaker, conservationist, and activist – he is, above all else, a master storyteller. This collection of...
Old Enough to Fight
Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured...
Roadtripping
On the Move with the Buffalo Gals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Roadtripping documents a decade of road trips through the fiefdom of Alberta. The men and women who make up the Buffalo Gals first set out in July 1999 to experience the unusual and charming roadside attractions of south-central Alberta. Never dreaming that this one-off adventure would turn into an...
by Chic Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The book that has taken tens of thousands of skiers out onto stunning, backcountry trails is now reborn in full colour for a whole new generation.
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this bestselling guidebook features over 150 trails, tours and traverses for the nordic skier...
by William Lowell Putnam, Andrew J. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first professional mountain guides to be employed in North America were all Italians: Guiseppe Petigax and Lorenzo Croux of Courmeyer, Antonio Maguinaz and Andrea Pellissier of Valtournanche and Erminio Botta of Beilla, all in the retinue of Luigi Amadeo of Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi whose successful...
Bittersweet Sands
Twenty-Four Days in Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Rick Ranson has collected stories from all over North America, from the DEW Line and the drill ships of Working North to the raging waters of the Mississippi in Paddling South. Now, join this engaging raconteur as he ventures to one of Canada’s most talked-about locations: Fort McMurray, home of...