Canada category: 4109 books
A Fatherly Eye
Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration...
Le Point de non Retour
The Point of No Return
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Imagine leaving all you know behind for good to head for a land so far away and different that it is beyond your wildest dreams? That is what the Hebert family did. In fact, they had a very profitable business in running an apothecary in downtown Paris and all was perfect. That is for anyone else,...
by Agnes C. Laut
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1909. "To re-create the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life's great dramas again upon the stage of action,--frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the...
Drugstore Cowgirl
Adventures in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In 1964, Patricia MacKay immigrated to Canada from England in search of the wild-open lands and cowboy culture that captivated her as a child. In the 1960s, the Wild West was still alive and kicking in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, although it had been tamed—a little. Old-time hospitality and helping anyone...
by Daryl Cloran, Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret. In The Huron Bride it is 1834 and Hazel Sheehan has braved the perilous journey...
Soldiers of Song
The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story.
Lucky soldiers...
by Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The second of two volumes, first published in 1849. The work begins: "Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very little about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an enlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and calculating Scotland, and...
Jeremy Kane
A Canadian historical adventurenovel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the Australian penal colonies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
“JEREMY KANE: A Canadian Historical Adventure Novel Of The 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion And Its Brutal Aftermath In The Australian Penal Colonies.”
A young Ontario rebel's adventures in love, politics, and war, amidst violent events that helped shape Canada's early nationhood. Romantically...
by Ron Haggart
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
"Riveting, insightful, and human." — Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator of Canada
In April 1971, journalist Ron Haggart helped resolve one of Canada’s most serious prison riots. When maximum-security Kingston Penitentiary fell under the control of 500 rioting prisoners,...
Big Bear (Mistahimusqua)
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
A biography of the Plains Cree chief who challenged Canadian authorities and became a warrior of legend.
When Big Bear was young, in the first half of the nineteenth century, he overcame smallpox and other hardships—and eventually followed in the footsteps of his father, Black Powder, engaging...
Early Voices
Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors...
North of the Soo
Wilderness Adventure Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
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...
The White and the Gold
The French Regime in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This is the fascinating story of the French regime in Canada.
Few periods in the history of North America can equal it for romance and color, drama and suspense, great human courage and far-seeing aspiration. Costain, who writes history in the terms of the people who lived it, wrote of this...
The Scout
Tommy Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A search down a wooded path for a well-hit baseball turns into an encounter between Pamela and a veteran soldier standing in front of a monument. The statue commemorates the heroism of Sgt. Tommy Prince, the most decorated Aboriginal soldier in Canada. Pamela is curious, and the veteran is happy to...