Canada category: 4109 books
by Jane Ross, Daniel Kyba
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A classic, full-colour guide to one of Alberta’s most spectacular and underrated wilderness areas, The David Thompson Highway Hiking Guide continues to introduce adventurous tourists and locals to the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Another of RMB’s bestselling hiking books, The David Thompson...
Through a Canadian Periscope
The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it.
Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014.
Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook...
Finding Kluskap
A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi’kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi’kmaw Catholicism...
The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior
A History of Canadian Internment Camp R
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might...
Revisiting 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath...
Courted and Abandoned
Seduction in Canadian Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
A pregnancy outside of marriage was a traumatic event in frontier Canada, one that had profound legal implications, not only for the mother, but also for the woman's family, the alleged father, and for the entire community. Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century...
Too Young to Die
Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
John Boileau and Dan Black tell the stories of some of the 30,000 underage youths -- some as young as fourteen -- who joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the Second World War. This is the companion volume to the authors' popular 2013 book Old Enough to Fight about boy soldiers in the First World...
Props on Her Sleeve
The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1997
A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War. Moments of hilarity interspersed with impatience and frustration are...
Joe Salsberg
A Life of Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community. His life trajectory mirrored many...
by Neil S Forkey
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and...
Border Flows
A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United States contains more than 20 percent of the world’s total freshwater...
by Myrna Kostash
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Finalist for the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!
The long rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada's northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle...
by Dan Soucoup
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In December 1917, one of the greatest natural harbours in the world was humming with excitement. Halifax Harbour was filled with naval convoys and merchant vessels while factories worked overtime in support of the Allied war effort in Europe. But on December 6, Canada's worst disaster struck, as two...