Dundurn: 2215 books
by Robbins Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1988
The Ontario Book of Days is a light-hearted and whimsical chronicle of some of the most interesting events in Ontario’s history. Events and happenings of all sorts from all parts of the province – from politics, sports, and business, to cultural events and natural disasters are happily intermingled – whether they took place two centuries or two years ago.
Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1985
A revised and greatly expanded eition of this important and long out of print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to A Handbook of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates of all parliaments, and judges and...
Dr. Oronhyatekha
Security, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
2016 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award — Winner • 2017 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
A man of two cultures in an era where his only choices were to be a trailblazer or get left by the wayside
Dr. Oronhyatekha (“Burning Sky”), born in the Mohawk nation on the Six Nations...
by Stephen Eaton Hume
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
First Person
A Biography of Cairine Wilson Canada's First Woman Senator
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1987
Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female senator, was one of nine children raised in an atmosphere of rugged Scots liberalism and strict presbyterianism by affluent Montreal parents in the late nineteenth century. She displayed an interest in politics early in life and through her father’s position...
Rails Across the Prairies
The Railway Heritage of Canada’s Prairie Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North...
149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America
(So You Can Ignore the Others)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides.
This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries.
Julian Porter...
Nation Builders
Barnardo Children in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada. Through first-hand accounts and archived materials, Corbett sensitively and accurately...
by Andrew Hind, Maria Da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow -- or spectre -- of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests,...
by Jennifer Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like Thomas Talbot.
Jennifer Grainger chronicles the rise and...
Stories of Newmarket
An Old Ontario Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Newmarket, one of the oldest communities in Ontario, was founded on the Upper Canadian frontier in 1801 by Quakers from the United States. Fur traders, entrepreneurs, millers, and many others were soon to follow, some seeking independence, some seeking wealth, and some even seeking freedom from creditors....
Posted to Canada
The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell, 1835-1844
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 1987
Posted to Canada examines, for the first time, the immense body of work created by George Dartnell, a British army surgeon stationed in Canada from 1835 to 1844. Dartnell, an accomplished and popular surgeon, sketched more than 150 scenes of a pristine Canada of dense forests, clear lakes and rough-edged...
A.Y. Jackson
The Life of a Landscape Painter
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved characters, and the first to examine in one book the artist, outdoorsman,...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist...