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  • Canadian Economic History

    by W.T. Easterbrook, Hugh Aitken ...
    Series series Heritage
    Through three centuries of development, the history of the Canadian economy reflects the shifting roles of natural resources, industrializations, and international trade. This volume, a standard in the field since its initial publication in 1958, presents a comprehensive account of these and other factors in the growth of the Canadian economy from the time of the earliest European expansion into ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • The National Dream

    The Great Railway, 1871-1881

    by Pierre Berton ...
    In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision—bold to the point of recklessness—was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation.Using primary sources—diaries, letters, unpublished ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Penguin History of Canada

    by Robert Bothwell ...
    Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge north but with most of its population in the south, hugging the U.S. border. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the 21st century, a haven of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Ranch on the Cariboo

    by Alan Fry ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.Excerpt from Eldon Lee's foreword: “This book by Alan Fry is probably the best book ever written on ranch life in the Cariboo. His account ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Taking The Ice

    by Pj Kwong ...
    Canada is synonymous with success in figure skating. "Taking the Ice" tells us about some of the people who have been instrumental in creating the "Ice Dynasty" that we have come to enjoy as Canadians. It all begins with the love affair between Canadians and Barbara Ann Scott the 1948 Olympic Champion and the book takes us right up to the stories of the Canadian Champions at the Vancouver 2010 ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Lake Erie Shore

    Ontario's Forgotten South Coast

    by Ron Brown ...
    The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Much of the area's natural features - the wetlands, the Carolinian forests - and its built heritage - fishing ports and military ramparts - provide much of interest for vistors to the region.Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coast line in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Mordecai Richler

    by M G Vassanji ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    One of Canada's top novelists examines the life and work of another Canadian Great. Both Richler and Vassanji are award-winning novelists who regarded themselves as outsiders in their respective societies—one a Jew in Quebec, the other an Indian in Tanzania who emigrated to Canada. Their experiences were vastly different, but their perspective as outsiders allows each a unique viewpoint. With ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    by Mark Osbaldeston ...
    Series Book 1 - The City That Might Have Been
    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 such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Toronto Sketches

    The Way We Were

    by Mike Filey ...
    Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns.Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city's people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists

    The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

    by Margo Goodhand ...
    In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600.In Runaway Wives and Rogue ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

    Personalities, Profits and Politics

    by Robert C. Lee ...
    The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • “Le Point de non Retour” (The Point of No Return )

    by Sharon Desruisseaux ...
    Imagine leaving all you know behind for good to head for a land so far away and different that it is beyond your wildest dreams? That is what the Hebert family did. In fact, they had a very profitable business in running an apothecary in downtown Paris and all was perfect. That is for anyone else, but them. Yet their dreams pushed and drove them to run for the unfathomable new world so far across ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus