Dundurn: 2215 books
by Jennifer Crump
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Canadians have been celebrated participants in numerous conflicts on foreign soil, but most Canadians aren’t aware that they’ve also had to defend themselves many times at home. From U.S. General Benedict Arnold’s covetous attempts to declare Canada the 14th colony during the American Revolution...
Mennonites
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...
Ten Decisions
Canada’s Best, Worst, and Most Far-Reaching Decisions of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their importance, their agonizing stakes, and the impact they have on the country to this day.
Hostile Seas
A Mission in Pirate Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In late 2008, piracy around the Horn of Africa escalated dramatically, threatening the passage of international merchant ships through a critical waterway. Not only were ships carrying goods to North America and Europe affected, but also vessels entrusted with food aid for a Somali population suffering...
by Victor Carl Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the kitchen range – all before farming became the highly technical, big-time operation it is now.
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by Barbara Nickel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1999
Short-listed for the 1999 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird's-eye view of the western landscape, nature's glorious playground. Nickel's experimental...
Canadian Political Bundle
Nellie McClung / William Lyon Mackenzie King / John Diefenbaker/ René Lévesque / Maurice Duplessis / James Douglas / John A. Macdonald / Joey Smallwood / Wilfrid Laurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Presenting nine titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich political history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential lives. Profiled are: prime ministers John Diefenbaker, John A. Macdonald,...
Unbuilt Toronto
A History of the City That Might Have Been
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the citys founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines...
The Old Brewery Bay
A Leacockian Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1994
Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958.
Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock's summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay....
Unbuilt Toronto 2
More of the City That Might Have Been
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city."...
The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada's landscapes....
A Toronto Album 2
More Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
A Toronto Album 2, companion edition to Mike Filey’s immensely popular original album, is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Among the 100-plus photographs is a quartet that shows the remarkable...
Discover & Explore Toronto's Waterfront
A Walker's Jogger's Cyclist's Boater's Guide to Toronto's Lakeside Sites and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Out of print for many years, this much sought-after guide is being brought back just in time for the megacity's first summer. Mike Filey has expanded his original book to include areas that are now the waterfront of the new City of Toronto, stretching from the west end of Etobicoke to the Rouge River...
by Dorothy Mindenhall
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Unbuilt Victoria celebrates the city that is, and laments the city that could have been.
For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. From a modest fur-trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company it grew to be...