Dundurn: 2215 books
Haunted Ontario 4
Encounters with Ghostly Shadows, Apparitions, and Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Part the dimensional veil and follow Terry Boyle into the world of spirits, with a fourth book of spine-tingling paranormal adventures.
Meet the forever-beautiful spectre of Marilyn Monroe, who came to the French River seeking sanctuary from fame and fans, and decided to stay. Journey to the...
Shadow Warriors / Les Guerriers de l'Ombre
The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command / Le Commandement des Forces d’Opérations Spéciales du Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
An unprecedented introduction to the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.
On February 1, 2016, the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) celebrated its tenth anniversary. This benchmark passed largely unheralded. After all, few Canadians actually realize their nation...
Mary Janeway
The Legacy of a Home Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Mary Janeway is the story of a little girl's childhood while living on a farm as a domestic servant in the late 1800s. Based on extensive historical research, Mary's story begins in Scotland where family circumstances lead to her being sent to Canada as a home child. Separated from her siblings, Mary,...
The Chinese Community in Toronto
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Sam Ching, a laundryman, is the first Chinese resident recorded in Toronto's city directory of 1878. A few years later, in 1881, there were 10 Chinese and no sign of a Chinatown. Today, with no less than seven Chinatowns and half a million people, Chinese Canadians have become the second-largest visible...
What to Consider If You're Considering College
New Rules for Education and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely...
Outcasts
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
In this story of love and loss, Tibor Schroeder, a Christian and reservist in the Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany, and Hedy Weisz, a young Jewish woman meet and fall in love during the Second World War - a time when romantic liaisons and marriage between Christians and Jews were not only...
by William Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Things were very different in 1939 — a pivotal year when Canada wavered on the doorstep of a clouded future.
Some years are more spectacular than others, and 1939 was no exception. Canada was a different place: steak was twenty-nine cents a pound and a brand-new Ford coupe could be bought...
by Gordon Swoger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures -their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their subsequent removal to western Europe and then to Canada. At...
The Nurses Are Innocent
The Digoxin Poisoning Fallacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
In 1980-81, 43 babies died at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children from a supposed digoxin overdose. Serial murder was suspected, leading to the arrest of nurse Susan Nelles. In order to clear Nelles's name, an investigation was launched to find an alternate explanation.
No one on the Grange...
The Wexford
Elusive Shipwreck of the Great Storm, 1913
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage Award
The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade...
The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
A Life of Louise Arner Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.
Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred...
Polar Winds
A Century of Flying the North
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond.
"They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own — were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists....
Canadian Railways 2-Book Bundle
Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways / Great Western Railway of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Transportation history buffs rejoice. Ride the rails and the waves in this special two-book collection on the great railways from Canada’s past.
Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways
The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime...
by David R.P. Guay
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
The untold history of the maritime branches of two giants of early-twentieth-century Canadian railroads.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, two giants of Canadian rail transportation, each operated maritime shipping ventures during the early twentieth century.
Numerous...