Canada category: 4109 books
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Labrador Wilderness, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (Front Cover: Paradise River, Labrador) Refresh your body, mind and soul by getting away from it all. A Travel Handbook. Enjoy the beautiful photographs about Labrador communities in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador on the eastern edge of the North American continent.
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
(Cover photograph: Scout hike on the ice) A unique photo album of 66 historical photographs (with original captions) about School, Scouts and Sports Day in the Nain – Nunatsiavut Labrador wilderness, Newfoundland and Labrador Province of Canada 1965-66. Taken by John Penny an 18 year old Voluntary...
Canada's Colonies
A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Furs, gold, whales, oil--the reason for going north has always been to empty the treasure house. The northern territories are vast and sparsely populated, so southern Canadians have been content to consider the North a colony, not a true part of Canada.
Since the first British naval expeditions...
Warming Up to the Cold War
Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by...
Canada Since 1945
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
From the preface:
"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and...
Canadian Adventurers and Explorers Bundle
David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / John Franklin / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Presenting six titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped Canada’s geography are: the French founder of Quebec, Samuel...
The Voyageur Canadian History 2-Book Bundle
The Refugee / The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Despite abundant hardships, pioneer life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful, and Mr. Guillet brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. He draws on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, supplementing these researches with interviews with persons...
by Diamond Jenness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social...
Priests and Politicians
Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba...
The Clear Spirit
Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the...
by Claude Bissell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
Aristocrat, democrat, diplomat, cultural advocate, anglophile, fiercely proud Canadian—Vincent Massey was a complex, sometimes enigmatic figure. This finely crafted portrait of Massey’s middle and later years, drawn extensively from its subject’s diaries and papers, recalls a life of deep commitment...
by Georgina Binnie-Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
An established writer before she came to Canada, Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) settled in Saskatchewan in 1905 to become a farmer. It was an unlikely ambition for a woman in her day, particularly an English gentlewoman, and in the opinion of many, an impossible one. The reaction of onlookers was...
Arming and Disarming
A History of Gun Control in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since...