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  • Beyond Hope

    An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush

    Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the inhospitable climate. Some found the motherlode. Others settled for becoming rich merchants. Most became impoverished, and a large number lost their lives. With new roads and ... Leer más

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    Tales of Hope, Heroism and Tragedy

    Series series Amazing Stories
    Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a ... Leer más

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  • The Big Red Fox

    The Incredible Story of Norman "Red" Ryan, Canada's Most Notorious Criminal

    Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice - first by force, and then years later by gulling the credulous into believing that he was "reformed." The dupes of Ryan's second emancipation included the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, several nationally prominent citizens, the country's largest newspaper, and, ultimately, R.B. ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Road

    and Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor

    de Marty Gervais ...
    Eccentric, unexpected, and told by the city’s most popular historian, Ghost Road and Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor is the city like you’ve never seen it before. ... Leer más

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  • Fish Camp in the Ramparts (storey 17 of 40)

    Fort Good Hope

    Series Libro 17 - The White Girl
    Just south of Fort Good Hope NWT, the mighty McKenzie River squeezes itself down into a comparative trickle between towering limestone cliffs. The Ramparts becomes a bottleneck during the spring break up when 6-foot vertical chunks of dirty block ice grind into the limestone banks. Narrow canyon walls channel the mass of thundering ice; they clog and crawl on top of each other.Pushing and shoving ... Leer más

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  • Green Economics

    Confronting the Ecological Crisis

    de Robin Hahnel ...
    This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions. ... Leer más

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  • Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

    The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada

    In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.In Backwoods ... Leer más

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  • Canada Always

    The Defining Speeches of Sir Wilfrid Laurier

    de Arthur Milnes ...
    In celebration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's 175th birthday -- November 20th, 2016 is "Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day" -- this is the first time his most important and iconic speeches will be published in book form, annotated and with essays by a stunning array of politicians, journalists, and acclaimed academics."Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways." These were the words used in triumph by Prime Minister ... Leer más

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    One Woman's Search for the Father She Never Knew

    How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, Ontario, son of a Northwest partner and Metis mother, who married a grandniece of a British aristocrat? Who was the first Newfoundlander, the grandson of a merchant seaman, to become a member of the ... Leer más

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  • Wilderness and Waterpower

    How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir

    Series series Energy, Ecology and the Environment
    Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, ... Leer más

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  • Red, White, and Kind of Blue?

    The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

    Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the ... Leer más

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