Canada category: 4109 books
Canadian Performing Arts Bundle
Emma Albani / John Grierson / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore the lives of some Canadian pioneers in the world of performing arts. Profiled are: Mary Pickford, the silent screen star of the 1920s; Emma Albani, a classical singer...
His Majesty's Indian Allies
British Indian Policy in the Defence of Canada 1774-1815
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1996
His Majesty’s Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada.
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1963
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes...
by Nick Fonda
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Roads to Richmond is an unusual, almost quirky road book. Divided into four thematic parts and forty-eight short chapters, it works like a mosaic: the big picture is a moving portrait of a little known corner of Canada—Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The inlaid stones that make up the mosaic are small...
by Caroline Royer
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Lieutenant dans l’armée anglaise, Howard arrive au Bas-Canada au printemps 1796 et remplit plusieurs missions. L’Écossais voulait marcher dans les traces de son père, l’amiral Charles Douglas, qui avait participé à la conquête de la Nouvelle-France aux côtés du vice-amiral Saunders, puis...
Rum, Blood & Treasure
Stories Strange and True from Atlantic Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This great collection of stories strange but true is for every reader who loves history -- and mystery. Edward Butts weaves true tales -- the wreck of the Francis and the weird connection to Edward, Duke of Kent; the sea voyage of Charles Coghlan's coffin; Captain Jack Randell the rum-runner; Al Capone's...
This Wild Spirit
Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: “A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood…I...
Mary Janeway
The Legacy of a Home Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Mary Janeway is the story of a little girl's childhood while living on a farm as a domestic servant in the late 1800s. Based on extensive historical research, Mary's story begins in Scotland where family circumstances lead to her being sent to Canada as a home child. Separated from her siblings, Mary,...
by John Pepall
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
In Against Reform, John Pepall offers a stringent critique of proposed reforms to Canada's political institutions. Examining electoral reform, an elected or provincially appointed Senate and reduced terms for Senators, fixed election dates, recall, initiative, and parliamentary reform, including 'free...
Transforming Labour
Women and Work in Postwar Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period...
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology...
New Year's Grief (storey 31 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Something is wrong. It feels like I have just crawled into bed and closed my eyes after a long night of babysitting, a loud scream is piercing my ears and my brain is commanding that I pry open my heavy, heavy eye lids. I am having the most amazing dream of flashing sunlight dancing off of calm blue...
The Law and the Lawless
Frontier Justice on the Canadian Prairies 1896-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada’s prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on their horses, their contacts, and their wits to apprehend the culprits....
by Catharine Parr Traill, D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life by Catharine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land.