Canada category: 4109 books
by Canniff Haight
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area,[6] and shares land borders with the United...
A Good Day's Work
In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A Good Day's Work is a lyrical journey through a semi-mythological place: the Canada of our imagination. It is the Canada of the day before yesterday. Or perhaps the Canada of 1967 -- the country's "Last Good Year," as Pierre Berton dubbed it. It is a portrait of Canada captured by way of...
A History of Canada in Ten Maps
Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s...
Blood and Daring
How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.
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In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because...
Canada's Jews
A People's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered...
Tragedy in the Commons
Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.
Though...
Canada's 1960s
The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of...
by Will C. van den Hoonaard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís...
Canada under Attack
Irish-American veterans of the Civil War and their Fenian campaign to conquer Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Most history books make a joke of it, but Canada faced a serious military threat in the 1860s -- and came under multiple attacks by military forces based in the United States. It took the combined effort of British troops in Canada and the Canadian militia -- plus some good luck -- to repel the invaders...
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system,...
Gendarmerie royale du Canada, La
Album jeunesse, à partir de 9 ans
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante. Face à la menace grandissante des trafiquants d’alcool et des brigands régnant sur l’Ouest américain, la mise en place d’une force de police devient rapidement nécessaire...
Great Western Railway of Canada
Southern Ontario’s Pioneer Railway
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway.
This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada’s greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853–1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Rough Guides Snapshot Canada: Ontario is the ultimate travel guide to this province of Canada. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from amiable Ottawa and elegant Bayfield to the crystal clear waters of Fathom...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Rough Guides Snapshot Canada: Toronto is the ultimate travel guide to Canada's largest city. It leads you through the city with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from uber cool Queen Street West to the sprawling Distillery District and the outstanding...