Natural Heritage imprint: 143 books
by Peter Kazaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Canoe across large lakes, up and down rivers and rapids; labour over portages and through a miasma of blackflies; bask in the golden evenings of the Subarctic. In this account of an 800-mile canoe trip -- which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past...
Scotland Farewell
The People of the Hector
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hunger of landless men...
The Greatest Lake
Stories from Lake Superior’s North Shore
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Explore the connection between people and places on the rugged shore of Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake.
Conor Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior’s Canadian shore through colourful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts. Admire...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
My Home As I Remember describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of...
Isabella Valancy Crawford
We Scarcely Knew Her
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Considered one of the finest of Canada's early poets, the raw intellect and emotional appeal of Isabella Valancy Crawford's poetry drew author Elizabeth McNeill Galvin on a personal journey that traced Isabella's life which began in Dublin, Ireland, and ended in Toronto, Canada.
Isabella emigrated...
by R.D. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
The North Runner is a true and moving story of the building of trust between a man and an exceptional dog that was half wolf, half Alaskan Malamute, and the resulting mutual affection and respect between them.
Waking Nanabijou
Uncovering a Secret Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother? Why did she take a lifelong secret to her grave?
In his search for clues throughout his childhood...
Captain Fitz
FitzGibbon, Green Tiger of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2011
Irish-born James FitzGibbon came to Canada with the 49th Regiment to serve under his hero, Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. After the death of Brock at Queenston Heights and the capture of Fort George in the War of 1812, FitzGibbon spied on the enemy encampment, disguised as a settler selling butter....
Along the Trail in Algonquin Park
With Ralph Bice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Along the Trail in Algonquin Park has delighted thousands of readers across Canada and the United States from the time of its first publication in the summer of 1980. This is the fourth reprint of the classic work by the late legendary outdoorsman, Ralph Bice of Kearney, Ontario. The writing is vintage...
Faces of the North
The Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic...
The Last Stand
A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The most ancient and least disturbed forest ecosystem in eastern North America clings to the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. Prior to 1988 it had escaped detection even though the entire forest was in plain view and was being visited by thousands upon thousands of people every year. The...
Capturing the French River
Images Along One of Canada's Most Famous Waterways, 1910-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J. Ernest Rushbrook and Frank Sherman, whose lifelong friendship was based in part around their mutual love of photography, of nature, of the Canadian wilderness...
RMS Segwun
Queen of Muskoka
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun.
The Royal Mail Ship Segwun is the oldest operating steamship in North America, a Muskoka icon, and one of Ontario’s best-known tourist attractions. Built as a paddlewheeler...
Copper Woman
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the...