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  • John Grierson

    par Gary Evans ...
    Collections Livre 14 - Quest Biography
    John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth centurys most influential personalities in film culture. He gave the word "documentary" to the English language. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Toronto Book of the Dead

    par Adam Bunch ...
    Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Great Depression

    1929-1939

    par Pierre Berton ...
    Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

  • Warlords

    Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars

    par Tim Cook ...
    Two portraits flank the doors leading into Canada's House of Commons: Sir Robert Borden to the left and W.L.M. King to the right. While each man appears flatteringly stern, wise, and charismatic, it is the portrait plaques that are of particular interest. Borden's caption reads: "World War I War Leader, 1914–1918," while King's caption is similar: "World War II War Leader, 1939–1945." No other ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • King

    William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny

    par Allan Levine ...
    William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions. At the same time, he was insecure, craved flattery, became upset at minor criticism, and was ... En savoir plus

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  • Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson

    par Andrew Cohen ...
    Collections series Extraordinary Canadians
    In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Fascinating Canada

    A Book of Questions and Answers

    Few people have read as widely in the field of Canadiana as has John Robert Colombo. The curiosity of this Toronto writer, editor, and anthologist knows few if any bounds when it comes to the lore, literature, history, culture, and character of Canada. He has an inquiring mind and he seems able to find national and even international twists to subjects of interest or importance.Fascinating Canada, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Norman Bethune

    Collections series Extraordinary Canadians
    Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • William Lyon Mackenzie King

    Dreams and Shadows

    par lian goodall ...
    Collections Livre 11 - Quest Biography
    Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canadas tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Mackenzie King. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Robertson Davies

    Magician of Words

    par Nicholas Maes ...
    Collections Livre 24 - Quest Biography
    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... En savoir plus

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