Canada category: 4109 books
A Knock on the Door
The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared...
Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy
America's First Attempt to Bring Liberty to Canada,1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Historian Gavin K. Watt offers a fresh interpretation of the 1775 Invasion of Canada.
In 1775, Governor Guy Carleton returned to Canada after a four-year absence in England to discover that political unrest in the American colonies was at a fever pitch. Soon after, open warfare erupted in Massachusetts,...
by Lance Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people. They faced oppression and death with remarkable stoicism, but nothing could save them from the Hunger Winter of 1944-5, when more than 30,000 people died of starvation.
In...
by Edmund Cosgrove, Brick Billing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
First published in the 1960s and long out of print, Edmund Cosgrove recounts the lives of Canada's outstanding pilots and their exploits in the two world wars. From the brilliant individualists who flew in the First World War to the tough and dedicated bomber crews of the Second, this is the story...
A Short History of Canada
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians,...
Wings Across Canada
An Illustrated History of Canadian Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
From the eccentric Fairey Battle to the lethal-looking CF-18, from modern airliners that have no defects (and no character) to the classic North Star (which had both), here is the ultimate line-up of the aircraft that have served Canadians in the last century. With over one hundred photographs of...
D-Day
Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, and yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. D-Day: Juno Beach,...
by William Canniff
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the year 1861 a meeting was convened at the Education Office, Toronto, with the view of establishing an Historical Society for Upper Canada. The writer, as an Upper Canadian by birth, and deeply interested in his country with respect to the past as well as the future, was present. The result of that...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Edmonton : (Canada) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Edmonton : (Canada) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Edmonton : (Canada) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
by Francois Xavier Garneau
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Wikipedia: "François-Xavier Garneau (Québec 15 juin 1809 - 3 février 1866) était un historien canadien-français. Il était un autodidacte et ce grâce à sa rencontre avec un éducateur du nom de Joseph-François Perrault. À 16 ans il entre comme clerc dans l'étude d'Archibal Campbell...
by Charles Roger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The beauty of a book, as of a picture, consists in the grouping of images and in the arrangement of details. Not only has attitude and grouping to be attended to by the painter, and by the narrator of events, but attention must be paid to light and shade; and the same subject is susceptible of being...
Spirit Builders
Charles Catto, Frontiers Foundation and the Struggle to End Indigenous Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The inspiring story of how one organization has tried to alleviate the struggles faced by First Nations peoples in Canada by building houses and developing livable communities for those in desperate need.
The people who were living here on Turtle Island (North America) before us have been pushed...
While Canada Slept
How We Lost Our Place in the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?
With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global...
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, Viceroy of India
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, KT, GCB, PC (20 July 1811 – 20 November 1863), was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trades with China and Japan, and Viceroy...