Goose Lane Editions And The Gregg Centre For The Study Of War And Society: 17 books
Hope Restored
The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the expelled Acadians. Between family ties and unrestrained...
by John R. Grodzinski
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for its perilous Winter March through the wilderness...
Captured Hearts
New Brunswick's War Brides
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new...
Steel Cavalry: The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign
The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
The story of the transformation from of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside, engaging their Nazi counterparts. One of the most storied of such regiments is the 8th...
Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812
The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small...
Riding into War
The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched...
by Gary Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A little-known episode in North America’s history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War but left the border of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) and British North America unsettled,...
A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812
New Brunswick and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With...
by Shawna M. Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give emergency care for bleeding...
Uncle Cy's War
The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he constantly faced. His letters home were stored and left undisturbed for almost ninety years. Cleverly written with wit and humour, they reveal voluminous...
Hurricane Pilot
The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, DRM, 1940-1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over France, England, and India and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. In 1943 his airplane was...
The Bitter Harvest of War
New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada -- as a nation -- was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians were killed, wounded, or went missing in the three-day battle. Shortly thereafter, Prime Minister Robert Borden assembled...
Till the Boys Come Home
Life on the Home Front in Queens County, NB, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain relatively unexplored. Till the Boys Come Home examines the conduct of the war through the eyes of one particular agricultural and coal-mining community. As...
D-Day to Carpiquet
The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion. After securing the eastern...
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