Dundurn: 2215 books
William Wye Smith
Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s rapid urban and industrial expansion. Such work often highlighted...
by Walter Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1855, the Kingston, an iron steamboat built for John Hamilton, appeared in the Great Lakes. When the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII)...
Now You Know Canada
150 Years of Fascinating Facts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
A National Bestseller!
A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.
Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and...
Mean Streets
Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada’s...
Emancipation Day
Celebrating Freedom in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans...
Brown of the Globe
Volume Two: Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at its most critical stage. This second volume...
Old Ontario
Essays in Honour of J M S Careless
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1990
In ten original studies, former students and colleagues of Maurice Careless, one of Canada’s most distinguished historians, explore both traditional and hitherto neglected topics in the development of nineteenth-century Ontario. Their papers incorporate the three themes that characterize their mentor’s...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 31–35
Harriet Tubman / Laura Secord / Joey Smallwood / Prince Edward, Duke of Kent / John A. Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: legendary Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman; Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812; Newfoundland politician Joey Smallwood, the final...
Loyalist Literature
An Annotated Bibliographic Guide to the Writings on the Loyalists of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This highly readable guide is more than a bibliography. Written in a narrative style, it is as well a short history of the Loyalists: who they were, why they left, where they settled, and what their legacy is.
Careless at Work
Selected Canadian historical studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1996
This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada’s best-known historians....
Canadian Folk
Portraits of Remarkable Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.
They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners,...
Cold North Killers
Canadian Serial Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined toWest Coastbutcher Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with the horrific acts of pig farmer Robert Pickton. Unlike...
by Lotfi Mansouri
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. Over the course of a career that has spanned...
Big Bang, Baby
Rock Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
In the middle of the conservative 1950s, rock and roll hit popular culture like an explosion a Big Bang, Baby! And the fallout from that explosion is still electrifying music fans today.
Popular music expert Richard Crouse has ventured deep into the far reaches of rock history to bring together...