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  • The Voyageur Modern Canadian Literature 5-Book Bundle

    The Silence on the Shore / Combat Journal for Place d'Armes / The Donnellys / In This Poem I Am / Canadian Exploration Literature

    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary identity was shaped. Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be renowned Hugh Garner’s best, most ambitious novel. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Donnellys

    by James Reaney ...
    Series Book 9 - Voyageur Classics
    Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney's play elevated the events to the level of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    Series series Heritage
    This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country.Although her poetry reflects the patterns of her time, Isabella Valancy Crawford was able to accept the raw and vigorous Canadian landscape on its own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Souwesto Home

    by James Reaney ...
    The poems in Souwesto Home are fresh, youthful meditations on such diverse subjects as the Little Lakes near Stratford, Ontario, the flora of Elgin County, the Donnelly feud, lichens, a Department Store Jesus, and so on. The collection ranges widely in tone and technique, from the lyrical to the satirical, from the direct and straightforward to the linguistically playful. As ever, Reaney’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Complete & Authentic Account of Canada’s Famous Feuding Family

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys—James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In Search of the Donnellys

    Second Revised Edition

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots. ... Read more

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  • The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle

    All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine

    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is ... Read more

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  • The Black Donnellys

    "When that Donnelly glares at you, you hear the sound of shovels digging your Grave"Not far from London, Ontario, even brave men feared to ride at night. The Donnellys were feared and hated, but their reign of bloodshed and terror persistently prevailed...until one man planned a terrible revenge. Here is the story of the most savage feud, tales of past terrors and lawlessness almost beyond belief ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood of the Donnellys

    by David McRae ...
    Jason Stevens is an angry 15-year-old when his parents decide to move from Toronto to Lucan, Ontario, site of the notorious 1880 massacre of the Irish-Canadian Donnelly family. In the big city, Jason's spate of petty thievery earned him a sentence of community service under the tutelege of his grandfather, an eccentric retired school teacher, who is building a museum devoted to the history of ... Read more

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  • Ghost Town Stories of Ontario

    Series series Amazing Stories
    Ontario is rich in ghost towns, communities that were once thriving but which have been reduced to mere shadows of their former selves. Nine villages -- including silver camps, fishing ports, crossroads hamlets, and farming settlements -- come alive on the pages of this book. The term 'ghost town' invariably conjures up images of fog-shrouded cemeteries, buildings with sinister visages, and of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Haunted Hamilton

    The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers

    by Mark Leslie ...
    From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplainable, the bizarre, and the chilling.Lock the doors and turn on all the lights before you settle down ... Read more

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  • A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight

    Lizzie Borden took an axe,And gave her mother forty whacks,When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.Lizzie Andrew Borden (b.1860 – d.1927) was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Media coverage of the case created a furor throughout the United States reminiscent of the Rosenberg, Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson ... Read more

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