Canada category: 4109 books
Four Degrees Celsius
A Story of Arctic Peril
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways...
The Big Nickel: The Untold Story
How Sudbury's Ted Szilva Turned a Five Cent Coin Into $1 million
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Big Nickel. For 50 years it’s been one of Canada’s most recognizable landmarks. Finally, the complete story you’ve always wanted to know is ready to be told. Straight from the man who started it all, Ted Szilva shares his most intimate and personal details about how this incredible...
by Mary Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
There were 17 Canadians present when Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876. Some had served in the Civil War, some were close friends or admirers of Custer, and some were mercenaries who just wanted a job with adventure.
William...
From Midnight to Dawn
The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history...
by Thomas Drance, Mike Halford, John Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Plenty of Canucks fans have taken in a game at Rogers Arena and will tell you they know just how to tell the Sedin twins apart. But only real fans can immediately recall Pavel Bure's penalty shot in the 1994 Stanley Cup final, or have hit the road to support their team in enemy territory. 100 Things...
Foodshed
An Edible Alberta Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In this intimate guide to Alberta's sustainable food scene, writer, poet, professional chef, and food advocate Dee Hobsbawn-Smith profiles more than seventy-five of the province's growers and producers. Learn the A to Z's of each producer, from Asparagus growers to Zizania cultivators, and enjoy the...
Canuck Rock
A History of Canadian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations...
Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939
Memories of the Canadians Who Survived the Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy to see why this book sold 300,000 copies and why a successful stage play that ran for years was based...
Vancouver Is Ashes
The Great Fire of 1886
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smoldering ash. Vancouver is Ashes: The Great Fire of 1886 is the first detailed exploration of what happened...
Colossal Canadian Failures
A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Did you hear the one about the canal builder who forgot canals need water? The battle where everyone ran away? Or the boat made of ice, and the town that mixed up time? How about the shovel invented for soldiers with a hole in it? Colossal Canadian Failures is a lighthearted look at Canada's unsung...
Don Mills
From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
How Toronto’s own city farms were crowded out.
First settled in the early nineteenth century, the area now known as Don Mills retained its rural character until the end of the Second World War. After the war, population growth resulted in pressure to develop the area around Toronto and, in...
Eaton Hall
Pride of King Township
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
In 1901, Florence McCrea married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not long after the death of her husband, Lady Eaton retired from her home in Toronto to the seventy-two-room,...
Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts
The Life and Times of Jerry Potts
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police...
A Century of Grant MacEwan
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
August 12, 2002 would have marked the 100th birthday of one of Western Canada's most beloved, exemplary, idiosyncratic and admired citizens, the Hon. J.W. Grant MacEwan. A Century of Grant MacEwan: Selected Writings is published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, and showcases the writing...