Dundurn: 2215 books
Guarding the Goldfields
The story of the Yukon Field Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
Canada's gold rush of the late 1890s attracted dreamers and schemers from all over North America. Guarding the Goldfields is the story of the men sent to guard the Yukon and maintain order.
Notes from the Ruins
Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s...
Outside the Line
A Peter Ellis Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Peter Ellis is a rookie probation officer in interior British Columbia when he gets saddled with a file that goes sideways. He’s not in the best headspace to start with, since his marriage broke down last winter. Now it’s the middle of summer, the rodeo’s coming to town, and the one solid thing...
What Happened to Mickey?
The Life and Death of Donald "Mickey" McDonald, Public Enemy No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Until the age of 31, Donald McDonald was only "dirty little Mickey from The Corner," the notorious intersection of Toronto's Jarvis and Dundas Streets in a neighbourhood known in the 1930s as "Gangland." After Mickey was charged with the January 1939 murder of bookmaker Jimmy Windsor,...
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit one of the jewels in Toronto’s historical crown: Fort York. This fort was the famous site of the Battle of York in 1813...
Eyes of a Stalker
A Shelby Belgarden Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
An unexpected delivery from the florist points to a secret admirer for Shelby Belgarden, but when an ominous phone call and a disturbing email follow, the teenaged sleuth and her family realize that the dangerous obsession of a stalker lies behind them. While the messages become increasingly sinister,...
Out of the Ashes
A Shelby Belgarden Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Short-listed for the 2003 Red Maple Award and Arthur Ellis Award for best Juvenile Book, commended for the 2003 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection
Shelby Belgarden isn't exactly thrilled when people start thinking Greg is her boyfriend. After all, she's more interested in...
Lifting the Silence
A World War II RCAF Bomber Pilot Reunites with his Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941. Written with his son, David, Lifting the Silence...
Now You Know Extreme Weather
The Little Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
"When it rains, it pours," especially when it comes to best-selling author Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Extreme Weather. Global warming, killer hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, melting permafrost – weather concerns us all, and now with this tightly packed compenium of questions and answers, everyone...
Childhood in Victoria
Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...
Grey Owl and Me
Stories From the Trail and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Hap Wilson is back for another journey, this time on the lighter side of the adventure trail, where the bizarre melds with the sublime. Nurtured by the writings of Canadian environmentalist and wannabe-Native, Grey Owl, Wilson adopted a lifestyle similar to the 1930s conservationist but with his own...
High on the Big Stone Heart
And Further Adventures in the Boreal Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
High on the Big Stone Heart is a collection of vibrant and entertaining essays on the people and places of Canada’s Boreal North as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most celebrated writers of non-fiction. Accompany Charles Wilkins as he ranges across the wilds of northern Quebec;...
by Robin Esrock
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes, and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting the definitive Canadian Bucket List, he’s packed in enough for...
Losing the Empress
A Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
The Empress of Ireland’s last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues.
In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents -...