Canada category: 4109 books
The Great Hikes of Vancouver, B.C.
Hiking the Top-Ten Must-Do Trails around Vancouver, British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
From stunning waterfalls to endless vistas, discover the BEST hiking Vancouver, B.C. has to offer.
The Great Hikes of Vancouver includes a hand-picked selection of the top ten must-do hikes for your next adventure in Southwest British Columbia’s impressive wilderness. Covering a wide variety...
Bay of Spirits
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling...
by Jonathan F. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable...
Exploring Vancouver
The Architectural Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore...
by Butch Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
De Grassi Street. Avenue Road. Oriole Parkway. Bloor Street. Kipling Road. Brown's Line. Yonge Street.
These streets and roads may not have the same ring as perhaps Rodeo Drive, 5th Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Michigan Avenue, or Broadway, but they are important byways within the fabulous...
Syllables of Recorded Time
The Story of the Canadian Authors Association 1921-1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1981
Syllables of Recorded Time is a lively look at the development over the last six decades of a national authors’ association, with all its problems and foibles.
Personalities such as Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, Stephen Leacock, B.K. Sandwell, W.A. Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, John Murray Gibbon,...
Newsgirls
Gutsy Pioneers in Canada's Newsrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Donna Jean MacKinnon’s Newsgirls tells the stories of ten pioneering female reporters who brazened it out in Canadian newsrooms from the late 1920s into the 1960s. Their stories explain how women like Stasia Evasuk, June Callwoood, Michele Landsberg, and many more succeeded in a male milieu....
by David Fennario
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
There’s no way we shoulda been arrested for sabotaging the war effort
trying to organize a strike
But if you really wanted to arrest somebody, you could go down to the British Munitions Factory and charge them with murder
cuz that’s what it was. Making us work all these long, crazy hours...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas / William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early...
by Elizabeth Hay
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.
At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City...
by John Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of Metcalfian wisdom and wit, and provides ample evidence that neither age...
Fire Canoe
Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.
Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie...
Finding Franklin
The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the St. Lawrence River in 1809, and...