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  • The Cold Light of Dawn

    A History of Canadian Astronomy

    by Richard Jarrell ...
    Series series Heritage
    The discovery in 1987 of a supernova brought to world attention the excellence of Canadian astronomers. As Richard Jarrell explains in this book, the path to excellence has been a long one. Although astronomy has been practised in this country from the earliest days of exploration, its professional status has slowly evolved in much the same way as has the nation itself.In the period of exploration ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Into the Blizzard

    Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

    by Michael Winter ...
    “In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and through and under.”So begins Michael Winter’s extraordinary narrative that follows two parallel journeys, one laid on top of the other like a sketch on opaque paper over the lines of an old map. The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Canadian Nuclear Weapons

    The Untold Story of Canada's Cold War Arsenal

    by John Clearwater ...
    "We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons."Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978From 1963 to 1984, US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and West Germany. It is likely that during the early ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Military Leaders

    Charismatic Canadian Commanders

    by Norman Leach ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "I never saw his equal for true grit... He lay all day with his body torn and bleeding, and it was only at night when the stretcher bearers could approach the trench to get out the wounded that he was carried away, and then he went last." The history of Canada is filled with charismatic and talented military leaders. Each of the men featured in this collection was wildly successful in business and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dancing in the Sky

    The Royal Flying Corps in Canada

    by C.W. Hunt ...
    Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States.The results enabled the Allies to regain ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handover

    How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational

    by Elaine Dewar ...
    Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. M ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Encounters on the Passage

    Inuit Meet the Explorers

    by Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Canoe in Canadian Cultures

    Edited by Bruce W. Hodgins, John Jennings, Doreen Small ...
    The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada's most powerful icon. Within this Canexus II publication are a collection of essays by paddling enthusiasts and experts. Contributing authors include: Eugene Arima, Shanna Balazs, David Finch, Ralph Frese, Toni Harting, Bob Henderson, Bruce W. Hodgins, Bert Horwood, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emancipation Day

    Celebrating Freedom in Canada

    by Natasha L. Henry ...
    When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans could live unfettered live in Canada -- a reality worthy of celebration.This new, well-researched ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flim Flam

    Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists

    by Mark Bourrie ...
    Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern Canada, to the con artists who have been drawn to Toronto's financial district. Along the way, you'll meet ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus