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  • Pierre Berton's War of 1812

    by Pierre Berton ...
    To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's two groundbreaking books on the subject. The Invasion of Canada is a remarkable account of the war's first year and the events that led up to it; Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries as well as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Klondike

    The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

    by Pierre Berton ...
    With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Vimy

    by Pierre Berton ...
    The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada "has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history" ( Maclean's).On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Spike

    The Great Railway, 1881-1885

    by Pierre Berton ...
    In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • As the Earth Dreams

    Black Canadian Speculative Stories

    Edited by Terese Mason Pierre ...
    A CBC Best Book of 2025A groundbreaking anthology of haunting stories by Black Canadian writersEdited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. A masseuse attends her mother’s fourth funeral, only to encounter family ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisoners of the North

    by Pierre Berton ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’ s frozen wilderness are no less ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush

    by Pierre Berton ...
    "Absolutely first-rate."—The New YorkerThis thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit steamboat docked at Seattle in 1897 containing two tons of pure gold. So frenzied was the clash for gold and so scant was information about conditions in the Klondike that the rush for riches became a kind of fabulous ... Read more

    $8.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promised Land

    Settling the West 1896-1914

    by Pierre Berton ...
    “Berton has made an invaluable contribution, rendering the grand Canadian adventure more readable than any detective story.” —The Vancouver SunThis is the final chapter in Pierre Berton’s epic retelling of the opening of the Canadian West in the years following Confederation. After the pioneers, surveyors and entrepreneurs came the settlers—a million people lured by government propaganda, ruthless ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • My Country

    The Remarkable Past

    by Pierre Berton ...
    A fascinating collection of true tales from Canadian history. Pierre Berton brings the past alive with stories of hardship and romance, mystery and magic, tragedy and high heroism: Charles Blondin tripping across Niagara’s gorge on a tightrope; Ned Hanlan rowing his way into history; and the phantom Indian, Gun-an-noot, eluding his pursuers for thirteen years. The past comes to life again in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Arctic Grail

    The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909

    by Pierre Berton ...
    Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • Niagara

    A History of the Falls

    by Pierre Berton ...
    Full of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils, scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary resonance: how a great natural wonder created both the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the worst pollution on the continent. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Invasion of Canada

    1812-1813

    by Pierre Berton ...
    To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners of war. Three American armies had been forced to surrender, and the British were in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD