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Investigating Women

Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995

Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective...
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Hard Oiler!

The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

by Gary May
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998

A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss. An unlikely trio indeed. And yet these three seemingly unconnected elements came together at just the right moment...
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The Big Blue Machine

How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever

by J. Patrick Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015

An inside account of the Progressive Conservative’s campaign organization. The Progressive Conservative Party’s “big blue machine” pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by...
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Practically Perfect

Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

by Dale Brawn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013

A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of...
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by Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003

Reading of murder stimulates a powerful response. We are repelled by the horror of it, but, simultaneously, our natural curiosity is strongly aroused. We want to know who did it, and why. Most unsolved murders have no apparent motives - or too many motives. The murders of Sir Harry Oakes in...
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200 Years at St. John's York Mills

The Oldest Church in Toronto

by Scott Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016

The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture. The War of 1812 was barely over when the people of York Mills felled the trees that would become the first St. John’s Anglican Church. Built in 1816 on land donated by...
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by Alison Lohans
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011

Short-listed for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Children’s Literature Award and Regina Book Award Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa Dixon looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself on an Iowa farm in 1931. The past is nothing like Alyssas unhappy...
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Haunted Ontario 3

Ghostly Historic Sites, Inns, and Miracles

by Terry Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

Gripping descriptions of paranormal experiences will leave the reader in awe. Interested in discovering more about haunted Ontario? Join Terry Boyle as he explores the shadowlands beyond the grave. Revel in the outstanding evidence of spirit habitation in museums, historic homes, inns, jails,...
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Eavesdroppings

Stories From Small Towns When Sin Was Fun

by Bob Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006

Eavesdroppings recounts life in the small towns of Ontario before sin arrived on the Internet - a time when churches were never locked and parents, not wishing to be disturbed while they listened to the radio, shooed their children out to play in the dark, unguarded streets without fear. Here you’ll...
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by Jim Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

It is rare that one can pick up a book and find all the answers to the problems of Life. Yet in this one book, we find these answers, and learn a few more things that will keep us up at night. What really happened when Mike Harris woke up after emergency surgery in a hospital still smarting from budget...
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Polish Orphans of Tengeru

The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49

by Lynne Taylor, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009

Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943. As...
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by Jim Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001

Once again we are blessed with yet another collection of Jim Foster’s ravings. His first book, I hate to complain, but … with its views on everything from bank mergers to the author’s 30-year love affair with Sophia Loren, is being hailed as a classic example - though of what no one is quite...
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Walking Girly in Nairobi

Safe House Short Story Singles

by Mark Gevisser
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage...
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The Desperate Ones

Forgotten Canadian Outlaws

by Edward Butts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

They were among Canada's most desperate criminals, yet their names have been all but forgotten in the annals of history - until now! In their day these lawless men made headline news. Author Ed Butts has rescued their stories from dusty newspaper pages and polished them up for today's readers in this...
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