Canada category: 4109 books
Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada
Exploring the Most Spectacular Back Roads of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada features nearly thirty separate drives through the beautiful Canadian coastline, from Nova Scotia up to Newfoundland. An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada includes route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions.
This Is My Country, What's Yours?
A Literary Atlas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction
A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)
National Post Best Books (2006)
A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.
Stories are the surest...
Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation
The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
In the late 1920s, Canada’s economy was showing all the signs of a full-fledged depression. Life savings were evaporating, unemployment was up, and exports were dramatically down. Riding on the popularity of his promise to “blast” Canada’s way into world markets — and thus stop the economy’s...
Royal Tours 1786-2010
Home to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Royal Tours 1786–2010 is a penetrating look at the tours of 11 royals who were or would be monarchs, viceroys, and commanders-in-chief of Canada. Leaving California in 1983 to tour British Columbia, Queen Elizabeth II said she was “going home to Canada.” Since its pioneer days, the Royal Family...
Invaders from the North
How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2006
What do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerebus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators — Joe Shuster, Harold Foster, Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of contemporary comix and graphic novels are also from Canada — artists such as...
Vancouver, Victoria & Whistler Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Vancouver is one of Canada’s most popular travel destinations. Located on the west coast in British Columbia, Vancouver is one of the country’s largest and most ethnically diverse cities. The beaches are clean, the wintersports are incredibly scenic and the parks are beautiful. Victoria...
The Morning After
The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.
Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec...
Requiem for a Giant
A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe's most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap.
In Requiem for a Giant:...
The Last Spike
The Great Railway, 1881-1885
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract....
Uncle John's Plunges into Canada
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Uncle John Plunges into Canada . . . in color!
Uncle John and the folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute love all things Canadian and figure that just because we weren’t lucky enough to be born in the Great White North doesn’t mean we can’t devote an entire Bathroom Reader to the...
Oh, Oh, Canada!
A Voice from the Conservative Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books The Trouble with Canada . . . Still, The War Against the Family, and The Trouble with Democracy.
Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and...
Dancing in the Sky
The Royal Flying Corps in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched...
by Jim Rees
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of ‘surplus’ tenants, engaged in ‘assisted passages’, whereby tenants were given financial incentives to emigrate. The clearances...
Mississauga Portraits
Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of...