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  • William Wye Smith

    Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian

    Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s rapid urban and industrial expansion. Such work often highlighted the difficulties the recent emigrant faced: the clearing of forest and the breaking of new ground, ... Leer más

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  • John A

    The Man Who Made Us

    The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden ... Leer más

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  • True Stories from Nova Scotia's Past

    CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot ... Leer más

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  • Riding into War

    The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919

    Series Libro 4 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched into an old trench. After disentangling the horses from their harness, Johnston found a ... Leer más

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  • Diplomat, Dissident, Spook

    de Bill Warden ...
    In this timely memoir, the late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the brink of nuclear annihilation. Diplomat, Dissident, Spook relays firsthand the experiences of this former Canadian diplomat who, like Voltaire’s Candide, gets successively disabused of his ideological certainties ... Leer más

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  • The Early Years of the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada. Illustrated.

    Creighton takes us through the first years of the famous police force in Northwest Canada. This short piece is richly illustrated with sketches by Frederic Remington. ... Leer más

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  • Unbuttoned

    A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life

    When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King’s death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with ... Leer más

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  • Mrs. Simcoe's Diary

    Series Libro 8 - Voyageur Classics
    Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made. Created largely while she was seated in canoes and bateaux, the diary documents great events in a familiar way and opens our eyes to a side of Canadian history that is too little shown.During her time in Upper Canada (now Ontario), Mrs. Simcoe encountered fascinating figures, such a explorer, ... Leer más

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  • Creepy Capital

    Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region

    de Mark Leslie ...
    A supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide.Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Leslie as he uncovers first-person accounts of ghostly happenings throughout Ottawa and the surrounding towns — the whole region is rife with ghostly encounters and creepy locales.Discover the doomed financier who may be haunting the Château Laurier. Experience the eerie ... Leer más

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  • Cross-Border Warriors

    Canadians in American Forces, Americans in Canadian Forces

    de Fred Gaffen ...
    For well of a hundred years, Canadians and Americans have crossed the border that separates their two countries to serve in one another's armed forces. The American Civil War, the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War - Cross-Border Warriors presents anecdotes, letters, and diaries by or about individuals who left family and native land to engage in these far-away struggles. There was Emma ... Leer más

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  • La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

    La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West is a history of the famous French explorer and his expeditions in the New World. The original illustrations and a table of contents are included. ... Leer más

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  • From Indians to Eskimos (storey 24 of 40)

    Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada

    Series Libro 24 - The White Girl
    Out with the old and slide into the new. My two brothers and I stand shivering at the school door. Winds howl off of the snow swept rock that stands guard above the school. Willy wags wing gusts of powered snow into the corner that we huddle. Frigid fingers tear and tug at our faces and pull on our clothing. Powdered snow clings to our stroud Indian “parkies.” The school bell rings but the door ... Leer más

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