Dundurn: 2215 books
by John McCrae
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death...
by Margaret Macpherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Writer, activist, and politician Nellie McLung (1873-1951) was a strong and effective voice for the women’s movement. She was one of the Famous Five suffragists from Alberta whose court challenge in the Persons Case led to women in Canada being declared to be legal "persons" in 1929.
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The Yellow Briar
A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario),...
Voices of the Left Behind
Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Here is a book to thrill and chill you!
It brings together sixty-nine stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie events and experiences.
What is amazing is that all the stories are true - they actually happened - and they happened in Ontario!
Did...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the covers, along comes Ghost Stories of Canada to remind you that there are plenty of ghouls to watch out for in the True North.
Ghost Stories of Canada is a collection of one hundred of the eeriest accounts of ghosts, poltergeists,...
Terrors of the Night
Canadian Accounts of Eerie Events and Weird Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2005
Terrors of the Night is a collection of more than 100 accounts of eerie events and weird experiences that have been recorded by Canadians over the last 400 years. These incredible accounts come from all parts of the country and concern witchcraft, peculiar weather conditions, wild beasts, hardly human...
Romancing the Bard
Stratford at Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Romancing the Bard offers a look at the Stratford Festival in its first fifty years as it developed from a bold venture driven by vision of a handful of eager enthusiasts to its present status as a multi-million dollar cultural and commercial enterprise. With profiles of Stratford personalities from...
Erratic North
A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement from his native Cleveland. Ohio, was instigated by his wish to protest and resist the U.S. military draft...
Historical Distillates
Chemistry at the University of Toronto since 1843
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2007
Historical Distillates examines the history of the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto from its beginnings in 1843, when it was housed in simple quarters in the Parliament Buildings on Front Street and had just one faculty member. During the founding era (1843-1920) three British gentlemen...
Ask the Grey Sisters
Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 tells the story of the creation and one-hundred-year history of the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital. At a time when Canada's healthcare system is at a crossroads and we are asked to make crucial decisions for its future,...
Fatal Intentions
True Canadian Crime Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Canadians are very polite — but they also commit murder. And those who think that mass homicides and wanton killings are recent phenomena in Canada should treat themselves to Fatal Intentions. Using contemporary accounts, Barbara Smith vividly recreates a number of murder cases from 1920s Nova Scotia...
Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle
Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman;...
Running With Dillinger
The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious...