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Through a Canadian Periscope
The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it.
Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014.
Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War...
Canoeing a Continent
On the Trail of Alexander Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2005
A highly personal account of the travels of Max Finkelstein as he retraces, some two hundred years later, the route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America (1793). Mackenzie's water trail is now commemorated as the Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route.
More than just...
Henry Hudson
New World Voyager
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
In 1607 Henry Hudson was an obscure English sea captain. By 1610 he was an internationally renowned explorer. He made two voyages in search of a Northeast Passage to the Orient and had discovered the Spitzbergen Islands and their valuable whaling grounds. In the process, Hudson had sailed farther...
River Rough, River Smooth
Adventures on Manitoba's Historic Hayes River
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Manitoba's Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook...
Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.
A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal...
by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2011
The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft),...
Getting Back in the Game
A Foreign Policy Handbook for Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the "grown-ups table"? Some would argue yes, that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best and non-existent at worst.
Paul Heinbecker...
The St. Petersburg Connection
Russian-American Friendship from Revolution to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
A history of Russian-American relations from 1776 to 1917, when these two states, mostly antagonists since, were warm friends.
A compelling account of Russian-American relations from the American Revolution of 1776 to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Long before the Cold War, there...
Under Arrest
Canadian Laws You Won't Believe
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Did you know that Canada's Criminal Code still has provisions outlawing the practice of witchcraft and "crafty sciences"? Did you know that blasphemy is a crime in Canada? And did you know that putting a picture of a red poppy on your website could get you in trouble with the Royal Canadian...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than...
by Chris McNab
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
The Battle of Passchendaele has come to epitomize the mud and blood of the First World War.
Passchendaele is perhaps one of the most iconic campaigns of the First World War, coming to symbolize the mud and blood of the battlefield like no other. Fought for over three months under some of the...
Battle Stories — WWI 2-Book Bundle
Somme 1916 / Passchendaele 1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Discover two pivotal battles of the First World War in this collection of Battle Stories.
Somme 1916
The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest fought in military history. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of the First World War, as hundreds of thousands of men on...
Amiens
Dawn of Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
It was the decisive battle of World War I. German commander Erich Ludendorff called it "the black day of the German army." Many authors have stated that it was the beginning of the end of the great conflict. And yet, until now, no book has been published on the climactic battle at Amiens.
Amiens...