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Haunted Ontario 2-Book Bundle
Haunted Ontario / Haunted Ontario 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Ghost hunter Terry Boyle brings you this two-ebook bundle of the bestselling Haunted Ontario books, conjuring up an eerie treasury of paranormal locales. Join Terry as he investigates apparitions at the former Swastika Hotel in Muskoka, poltergeists in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, and a whole...
F.H. Varley
Portraits into the Light/Mise en lumière des portraits
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Frederick Horsman Varley was unique among the members of the Group of Seven. One of the greatest Canadian portraitists of the twentieth century, he is an intriguing example of an artist who, despite his fame as a portrait painter, remains better known for his landscapes. This is due mainly to his...
by Arlene Chan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life. The late Jean Lumb received the Order of Canada, among other awards, for her role in changing Canada’s immigration laws that separated Chinese families, and for her contribution...
James Wilson Morrice
Painter of Light and Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first real examples of modern art.
Though cut short by chronic alcohol abuse, Morrice's restless bohemian...
The Accidental Captives
The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
In April 1941, seven Canadian women became prisoners of war while on a voyage from New York City to Cape Town. Their aging Egyptian liner, the Zamzam, was sunk off the coast of South Africa by the German raider Atlantis. The passengers were transferred to a prison ship and eventually put ashore in...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
The Reluctant Twitcher
A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had successfully avoided this latter pursuit for many years but capitulated in 2007 when he embarked on his "Big...
Céline Dion and René Angelil Library Bundle
Céline / René Angelil: The Making of Céline Dion
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Céline Dion is quite possibly Canada’s most famous singer and an icon in her own home province of Quebec. Possessed of an incandescent voice and a vibrant personality, she has moved huge audiences all over the world. These two books tell her story. Céline is the story of her journey from being...
Literary Titans Revisited
The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.
From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian...
Charles Pachter
Canada's Artist
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada’s best-loved and most celebrated artists.
Pachter is an artist with an astonishing...
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...
Alligators of the North
The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry...
Canada from Afar
The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers,...
by Julian Porter, Q.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter's essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of France. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment...