Dundurn: 2215 books
Whatever Happened To...?
Catching Up with Canadian Icons
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
The latest book by Canada's Trivia Guys is an entertaining where-are-they-now look at the fate of some 100 celebrities, newsmakers, and significant artifacts from this country's past. Lake Ontario swimmer Marilyn Bell, CFL legend Russ Jackson, Canada’s first automobile, and Roger Woodward, a boy...
Writing Creative Writing
Essays from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.
Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities...
Parenting Your Parents
Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Since the last edition in 2006, much has happened in the field of eldercare. There is now an increasing awareness of the complex challenges posed by the expanding aging population in North America. When our parents reach a certain age and have difficulty coping, we find ourselves wondering how to...
Aging Is Living
Myth-Breaking Stories from Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts,...
World Enough and Time
Conversations with Canadian Women at Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1996
"For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother. She's really attractive ... It's just that I can see that she's older, and I'm not supposed to be."
- Charlotte Wilson Hammond
"My view of the world is slowly becoming more integrated....
by Alan Dustin
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
A complete resource for Canadians seeking to master the stock market and secure their financial futures.
Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just joining the game, How to Profit from the Next Bull Market will teach you valuable skills and secrets to investing and succeeding in the Canadian...
The Golden Dream
A History of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project...
Toronto Neighbourhoods 7-Book Bundle
A City in the Making / Unbuilt Toronto / Unbuilt Toronto 2 / Leaside / Opportunity Road / Willowdale / The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The Toronto Neighbourhoods bundle presents a collection of titles that provide fascinating insight into the history and development of Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Beginning with histories of Canada’s longest street and the early days of what was once called York (The Yonge Street Story,...
Call in Pinkerton's
American Detectives at Work for Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton’s is the history of the agency’s work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces.
During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth...
Patterns of the Past
Interpreting Ontario's History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote...
Miss Confederation
The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
History without the stiffness and polish time creates.
Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers...
by Graeme Mount
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2000
In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause. It was disregarded as a useless, poorly located post. But when war was delcared, the garrison at Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle:...
The Anniversary Compulsion
Canada's Centennial Celebrations: A Model Mega-Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year’s celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives.
Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced...
A Kingston Album
Glimpses of the Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
This album follows the history of Kingston from the founding of Fort Frontenac and the accompanying French settlement of Cataraqui in 1673 to its present-day incarnation as a popular tourist and travel destination. In addition to its fine military tradition, Kingston has also been the centre of commerce,...