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  • 24 Sussex Drive

    The Past and Future of Canada's Official Residence

    For seventy-five years, 24 Sussex Drive was the symbolic heart of Canadian politics, a stately residence where decisions were made, famous families grew up, and world leaders came to call.Today, it stands empty, stripped to the studs and haunted by neglect. 24 Sussex: The Past and Future of Canada's Official Residence traces the building's remarkable story, from its origins as a lumber baron's ... Leer más

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  • Cargo of Lies

    The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada

    de Dean Beeby ...
    Series series Heritage
    On a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the Gaspé coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the Allies. Thanks to an alert hotel-keeper's son, Abwehr agent `Bobbi' was captured and forced by the RCMP to become Canada's first double-agent.For nearly fifty years the full story of the spy case, code-named Watchdog, was suppressed. Now, author Dean ... Leer más

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  • Being Prime Minister

    Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders.“What a life it is to be prime minister!” — John DiefenbakerCanada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada’s leaders and the job they do as ... Leer más

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  • In the Black

    My Life

    Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book AwardA remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudiceIn the Black traces B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Vancouver

    A History

    A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city.In Becoming Vancouver award-winning historian Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city from early habitation by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, to the area’s settlement as a mill town, to the ... Leer más

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  • Shape of the Suburbs

    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

    de John Sewell ...
    It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto ... Leer más

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  • Toronto Book of Everything

    Series series Book of Everything
    From Hogtown to capital city and Leafs Nation, from cold wet winters to desperately humid summers, from Blackberry-addicted Bay Street financiers to profiles of Ed Mirvish, Glenn Gould, David Cronenberg and Rush, no book is more comprehensive than the Toronto Book of Everything. No book is more fun!Well-known Torontonians weigh in on what they love about their city. Linda Leatherdale reveals her ... Leer más

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  • Nova Scotia Politics 1945-2020

    From Macdonald to McNeil

    de Graham Steele ...
    Who has held political power in Nova Scotia? How did they get it? And what did they do with it? In his latest book, best-selling author and former cabinet minister Graham Steele takes us on a roller-coaster ride through seventy-five years of Nova Scotia politics from 1945 to 2020.The story ranges from Angus L. Macdonald, who won a crushing election victory in 1945 after a bitter falling-out with ... Leer más

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  • The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

    de Joan Baxter ...
    For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually ... Leer más

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  • Power, Prime Ministers and the Press

    The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill

    de Robert Lewis ...
    An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own.The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42 elections in the past 150 years.Mining the archives and his own interviews, Robert Lewis turns the spotlight on the watchers, including reporters who got too close to ... Leer más

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  • Not My Party

    The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper

    de Tom McMillan ...
    This outspoken, timely book by former Mulroney Cabinet Minister Tom McMillan indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him of turning a force for progressive Canadian values into an American Republican-style vehicle for right-wing ideologues. Lamenting Harper’s hyper-partisan “cult of personality” politics, ... Leer más

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  • Pierre

    Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew

    Edición de Nancy Southam ...
    #1 national bestsellerWhen Pierre Elliott Trudeau died in 2000, the outpouring of emotion was extraordinary. Thousands of people across Canada — and all over the world — mourned the loss of one of our greatest prime ministers, a man who touched the hearts and challenged the minds of a nation. In this book, Trudeau’s close friend Nancy Southam has gathered more than 140 reminiscences and anecdotal ... Leer más

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