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Keeping Ontario Moving
The History of Roads and Road Building in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
A comprehensive history of roads and road-building in Ontario.
In this beautifully illustrated book, virtually every facet of the road building industry in Ontario is discussed, from labour relations to safety, politics, and financing. Follow the history of road-building technology from the...
Scugog Carrying Place
A Frontier Pathway
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The story of Scugog Carrying Place, the ancient aboriginal trails connecting Lake Ontario with Lakes Scugog and Simcoe and the Kawartha lakes is a multifaceted one. In tracing its documented history from the 1790s to the 1850s, author Grant Karcich unravels mysteries; explores the lifestyles of early...
Beyond Hope
An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the inhospitable climate. Some found the motherlode. Others settled for becoming...
Guerrilla Nation
My Wars In and Out of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an entire population had been trained for generations in guerrilla combat. His reporting that the North was...
by Kathryn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
In 1924 Phyllis (Phyl) Munday did what no other woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her lifetime, many of those first ascents. She honed her outdoor skills as a Girl Guide leader and remained active in Guides throughout her life. During the...
by Randy Ray, Mark Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Who were Canada's ten most romantic couples of the twentieth century? What were this country's worst disasters, its ten best beers, and its most controversial works of art in the past one hundred years? Where will you find the most haunted places in Canada and who are Canada's greatest heroes, its...
by J. Patrick Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
An in-depth breakdown of the recent wave of Canadian Senate scandals, highlighting the need for abolition.
The Senate of Canada was created as a temporary expedient at the time of Confederation, offered as part of the negotiations to bring Canada’s original colonial provinces into the new...
Flight from Famine
The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop,...
Seeking a Better Future
The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.
Drawing...
Four Years on the Great Lakes, 1813-1816
The Journal of Lieutenant David Wingfield, Royal Navy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806, at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning...
Wolfe Island
A Legacy in Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time.
The...
Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants
A Fish and Timber Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
First in a trilogy on Irish immigration to Canada
Debunks the popular opinion that the potato famine was the formative event in Irish settlement in North America
A definitive study, which includes all known passenger lists from the period
Extensively illustrated, with numerous maps revealing Irish settlement...
by Julie V. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea and to ships. From the first explorers through immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone -- many lost to the relentless sea....
Royals in Canada 5-Book Bundle
Royal Tours / Fifty Years the Queen / Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother / and 2 more
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Discover the Royal Family as they “go home to Canada.” Collected together are five must-have books on the Royal Family’s relationship with Canada, their tours, and a Canadian perspective on their biographies.
Includes:
Royal Tours 1786–2010
Fifty Years the Queen
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1900–2002
Royal Observations
Royal Spring