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  • Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness

    'English-Canadian Literature' and 'French-Canadian Literature'

    by John George Bourinot, Thomas Guthrie Marquis, Douglas Lochhead ...
    Series series Heritage
    These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Left to Die

    The Story of the SS Newfoundland Sealing Disaster

    by Gary Collins ...
    “They didn’t die like flies, you know, like I’ve heard some reporters say over the years. Oh no, it wasn’t like that a’tall. The men who died didn’t just drop like flies. There was nothing quick or easy about it. They had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped with the cold to wipe the tears from their eyes.” Cecil Mouland, the last living survivor of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster, ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Aftershock

    The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey

    by Janet Maybee ...
    One of the greatest maritime disasters in history is reexamined in light of new evidence in this revealing chronicle of the 1917 Halifax explosion.On December 6, 1917, harbor pilot Francis Mackey was guiding the SS Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo. The resulting massive explosion ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Survival, with an introduction by the author.01 When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadlock in Korea

    Canadians at War, 1950-1953

    by Ted Barris ...
    Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal Canadian Navy led a daring rescue of troops from the port of Chinnampo in 1950; members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry won the highest US ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Discovery of Weather

    Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869

    by Jerry Lockett ...
    In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canada the Good

    A Short History of Vice since 1500

    by Marcel Martel ...
    To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who have lost so much money that ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • How Newfoundlanders Got the Baby Bonus

    by Edward Roberts ...
    Every Newfoundlander and Labradorian knows that Joey Smallwood was “the Father of the Baby Bonus.” He told us so in his own inimitable style—many, many, many, many times. But is that really how Newfoundland’s mothers got their cheques? Or is it another Imperfect Moment from our past—one where the story is simply wrong or incomplete? Did Adolf Hitler ever fight the Royal Newfoundland Regiment ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Last Patrol

    Following the Trail of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police’s Legendary Lost Patrol

    by Keith Billington ...
    In Keith Billington’s The Last Patrol, he shares one of the most tragic stories of the far north.It was a quiet December morning in 1910 when Inspector Fitzgerald and his crew left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, on a dog team patrol to Dawson City, Yukon. Their departure was without fanfare, and after a brief handshake and a salute, the men pulled out of the village and onto the frozen ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Arsenal of Democracy North: Canadian Naval Shipbuilding of the Second World War

    by David J Shirlaw ...
    The first compilation of the vast naval shipbuilding conducted in Canada in the Second World War on behalf of the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy, US Navy and Soviet Navy. From small yard craft to corvettes, minesweepers, destroyers, frigates and numerous others types, they are all listed. Profusely iluustrated. ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Tofino and Clayoquot Sound

    A History

    by Margaret Horsfield, Ian Kennedy ...
    Clayoquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is not only a place of extraordinary raw beauty, but also a region with a rich heritage and fascinating past.Tofino and Clayoquot Sound delves into all facets of the region's history, bringing to life the chronicle that started with the dramatic upheavals of geological formation and continues to the present day. The book tours through the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Final Voyages

    Trouble at Sea

    by Jim Wellman ...
    The fishing industry kills more people than any other job in the world. On average, Atlantic Canada loses one fisherman every month. From the pages of the Navigator magazine comes a collection of more than twenty sea stories from Jim Wellman’s widely acclaimed series, Final Voyages. This volume marks his fourth venture onto the cold Atlantic waters, to stand alongside captain and crew and tell the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD