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  • The Firebrand

    William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

    by William Kilbourn ...
    Series Book 10 - Voyageur Classics
    In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie. A skilled historian and an entertaining writer, Kilbourn reveals Mackenzie’s complex character: able political editor, shrewd recorder of his times, efficient first mayor of Toronto, and gadfly of the House of Assembly.Kilbourn vividly recreates the ill-fated Mackenzie-led march on Toronto during the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5-Book Bundle

    The Firebrand / Mrs. Simcoe's Diary / The Scalpel, the Sword / The Men of the Last Frontier / Pilgrims of the Wild

    by Grey Owl, Sydney Gordon, Mary Quayle Innis, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, William Kilbourn ...
    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada’s most important figures at crucial times in the country’s development. William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie: able political editor, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    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

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  • Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812

    The War of 1812

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    At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers.Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered North America

    by Paul Chiasson ...
    The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.In the summer of 2002, at home for his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on the island where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. Cape Breton ... Read more

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  • Staking Claims to a Continent

    John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

    by James Laxer ...
    Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Read more

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  • The War of 1812

    The War That Both Sides Won

    by Wesley B. Turner ...
    Tragedy and farce, bravery and cowardice, intelligence and foolishness, sense and nonsense - all these contradictions and more have characterized the War of 1812. The real significance of the series of skirmishes that collectively made up the war between 1812 and 1814 is the enormous impact they have had on Canadian and American views of themselves and of each other.The publication of The War of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Vancouver Island Survey (1860–1861)

    Edited by Linda Dorricott, Deidre Cullon ...
    Captain Richards' journal is an account of three survey seasons on Vancouver Island aboard two British Navy ships, the HMS Plumper and the HMS Hecate. Between 1860 and 1862 Richards and his dedicated crew surveyed and charted the entire coastline of Vancouver Island, creating baseline information for the nautical charts we use today.This monumental task, faithfully and often humorously recorded, ... Read more

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  • The Spanish on the Northwest Coast

    For Glory, God and Gain

    by Rosemary Neering ...
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  • Canada the Good

    A Short History of Vice since 1500

    by Marcel Martel ...
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  • York's Sacrifice

    Militia Casualties of the War of 1812

    by Janice Nickerson ...
    Series Book 12 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Not only professional soldiers but also citizens serving as militiamen participated in the War of 1812.The militia’s contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don’t know how many Upper Canadian militia men died defending their home.York’s Sacrifice profiles 39 men who lost their lives during the war. They include 19 residents of the Town of York, five ... Read more

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  • Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed

    Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots They Carried to Canada, 1774-1855

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    The days when Aberdeen’s "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during the sailing ship era. Taking readers through new and little-used documentary sources, Lucille H. Campey finds convincing evidence of good ships, sailed by experienced captains and managed by reputable people, thus ... Read more

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