Canada category: 4109 books
Pathogens for War
Biological Weapons, Canadian Life Scientists, and North American Biodefence
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
Pathogens for War explores how Canada and its allies have attempted to deal with the threat of germ warfare, one of the most fearful weapons of mass destruction, since the Second World War. In addressing this subject, distinguished historian Donald Avery investigates the relationship between bioweapons,...
by Tracey Arial
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Hiking in Multi-Regional Trails is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in multiple regions of Ontario. Canada’s first long-distance walking trail was completed in Ontario in 1967, just in time for...
Arctic Naturalist
The Life of J. Dewey Soper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose in the southwest corner of Baffin Island. He also charted...
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Bats, Pikas, Hares, Rabbits, Shrews, and Moles
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This section features descriptions of pikas, hares and rabbits, shrews, moles, and bats.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals is a beautifully illustrated, up-to-date guide to all 215 known species of mammals in Canada. It features brand-new, full-colour images of each species, as well as...
Life After Dark (storey 19 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Neighbours to the left of the first burst of rifle shots begin to empty their gun chamber skyward as well. Do you remember this? This is Canadian tradition! In the cold black night, the sound is magnified. We all hope that Uncle Ed has his rifle pointed in the right direction; he’s been snipping...
Dissonant Worlds
Roger Vandersteene among the Cree
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds Earle Waugh traces the remarkable career of Roger Vandersteene: his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and folkways,...
Saturday's Child
Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister. John Diefenbaker appointed her Secretary of State in 1957. In the course of her career she also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister responsible for Indian Affairs, and...
by Nina Reid-Maroney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening...
Race on Trial
Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth...
The Law and the Lawless
Frontier Justice on the Canadian Prairies, 1873-1895
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
They looked impressive in their red tunics, but the members of the fledgling North West Mounted Police had little experience as they departed from Fort Garry in 1874 on a mission to bring order to the lawless territories west of the Red River. There they found a vast and rugged land ruled by whiskey...
by W. A. Leavey, Keith Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Often touted as the moment that made Canada a nation, the Battle of Vimy Ridge has attained almost legendary status in the canon of our history. This collection of essays explores and analyses the specific battle itself as well as some of the historical meaning surrounding the events.
Karen...
Pick One Intelligent Girl
Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2007
During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women...
Without Our Past?
A Handbook for the Preservation of Canada's Architectural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
In their growing awareness of the need to keep alive Canada's heritage, individuals, community groups, and small historical societies have long felt the need for a basic guide to the preservation of buildings, particularly buildings which, though they may not warrant provincial or federal protection,...
Everything Runs Like a Movie
The Strange but True Story of Bank Robber Hermann Beier
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Like many new arrivals to Canada, Hermann Beier came to this country with big dreams — visions of a wide-open country where hard work and entrepreneurial flair would make him rich. A charismatic handyman, martial arts teacher, and small business owner, he charmed women and earned the respect of...