Dundurn imprint: 1894 books

William C. Van Horne

Railway Titan

by Valerie Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010

William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Ralway. The railroading general pushed...

The Man Who Carried Cash

Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon

by Julie Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017

The unlikely, rocky relationship between an American country superstar and his straightlaced Canadian manager. Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. The Man Who Carried Cash chronicles a relationship that was both volatile and affectionate between Johnny Cash and his...

Tom Thomson

Artist of the North

by Wayne Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman's innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images...

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

Separating Fact from Fiction

by Gregory Klages
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016

**A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917?** Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight?...

Driven to Succeed

How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global

by Rod McQueen, Susan M. Papp
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012

Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation...

A Mind at Sea

Henry Fry and the Glorious Era of Quebec's Sailing Ships

by John Fry
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd’s agent for...

I Choose To Live

A Self-Made Millionaire Faces Cancer

by Mischa Weisz
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009

By the time he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007, Mischa Weisz had all he needed to face the fight of his life. A child of Holocaust survivors, he felt distant from his parents and had no idea of his own heritage until he was well into his teens - too late to adopt it as his own. When...

Generation Deluxe

Consumerism and Philanthropy of the New Super-Rich

by Iris Nowell
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2004

They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life. Simultaneously,...

Art Ross

The Hockey Legend Who Built the Bruins

by Eric Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015

The first authorized biography of Art Ross, Hockey Hall of Famer, NHL founding father, and long-time member of the Boston Bruins. Though he last played the game nearly one hundred years ago, Art Ross remains connected with the greatest stars in hockey. Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky,...

Becoming a Somebody

The Biography of Ignat Kaneff

by Steven Nyczyk
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2019

The fascinating life story of Ignat Kaneff, one of Canada’s leading residential and commercial builders. When Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951, he had a mere five dollars to his name, no proficiency in English, and very little education. Yet, this was the beginning of one of Canada’s...

Staying in the Game

The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman

by Sydney Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008

Peter C. Newman called him "the Totem of the Titans." From a small Prairie town, Daryl K. "Doc" Seaman became an icon of Canadian business and hockey. He is one of the last of a breed of postwar entrepreneurs and sportsmen who forged modern Canada, striking deals on a handshake...
by Liona Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017

A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd. Few people’s lives are as romantic and adventurous as Liona Boyd’s has been. She has performed around the world, sold millions of albums, won five Juno awards, serenaded numerous heads of state, and, for eight years, dated...

Celine

The Authorized Biography

by Georges-Hebert Germain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998

Simply entitled Celine, this is the long-awaited, authorized biography of Celine Dion, the rags-to-riches story of a woman who has become the leading recording artist in the world. First published in French in Quebec in December 1997, Celine has sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Quebec alone....
by Lise Dion
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013

In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life...
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