Natural Heritage imprint: 143 books
Talking About Freedom
Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Discover the main features of Emancipation Day celebrations, learn about the people of African ancestry’s struggle for freedom, and the victories achieved in the push for equality into the 21st century.
On August 1, 1834, 800,000 enslaved Africans in the British colonies, including Canada,...
Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle
The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada at that time. The Toronto business that was conducted...
Who Killed George?
The Ordeal of Olive Sternaman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
When Ezra Chipman brought fellow Canadian George Sternaman to board at his Buffalo home, he set in motion a nightmarish chain of events. Within months, Ezra was dead of a mysterious ailment. Then, shortly after marrying Ezra's widow Olive, George developed similar symptoms.
Impoverished by...
by R.B. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800 to settle in Glengarry County. This book deals...
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
A Home Child Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of...
Right On, You Got the Elbow Out!
Wartime Memories of the R.C.A.F.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1990
During World War II, thousands of Canadians left our country to fight for our Allies. Where they went and what they did has always been a question for some. Perhaps this book will give some answers. It deals with the experiences of an ordinary airman, a radio telephone operator, one of the many "ordinary...
There Was A Piper, A Scottish Piper
Memoirs of Pipe Major John T. MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2001
The memoirs of John T. MacKenzie reveal a truly remarkable man: a highly respected authority on highland piping with a commitment to tradition and excellence in performance.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, John T. was a student of piping at age nine. Enlisted in the Scots Guards, he saw active...
Moose to Moccasins
The Story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Having been born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle. In this book, the late author proudly tells of her youth and coming of age by sharing her vivid memories and drawing on exceptional...
Black Creek Pioneer Village
Toronto's Living History Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto’s Living History Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the 1800s. Nestled on 56 acres of tranquility, the village is a step-back-in-time, a respite from the towering buildings and bustling traffic of the 21st...
Ships of Wood and Men of Iron
A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful...
Herbie and Friends
Cartoons In Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1990
Clearly the favourite character of Canada’s overseas troops during World War II, "Herbie" had a penchant for getting into some of the most bizarre predicaments imaginable. With feet that generally led to trouble and a nose like a disillusioned banana, Herbie provided Canadian soldiers...
Research Is a Passion With Me
The Autobiography of a Bird Lover
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1979
In her incredibly productive lifetime (1883-1974), American-born ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice earned the admiration of ornithologists and naturalists in far distant lands.
Research Is a Passion With Me is an enthralling autobiography of one of the great individuals in her field and of...
No Ordinary Man
George Mercer Dawson 1849-1901
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
George Mercer Dawson was indeed no ordinary man. Born in 1849, son of the first Principal of McGill University, Dawson defied health circumstances that would have defeated many people and went on to become one of our most exceptional Canadians.
As a geologist in the British North American Boundary...
Another Winter, Another Spring
A Love Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1987
Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering.