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Manitoba (Canada) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

This guide offers a complete panorama of Canada’s provinces and territories, describing their main attractions, together with a comprehensive historical and cultural portrait presenting the country’s many faces!

This deals mainly with Canada's Newfoundland province, the sights, the activities, where to stay and much more. It is based on our much larger guide to all the Atlantic Provinces. Hiking, trout and salmon fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, cycling, kayaking, exploring, puffin spotting � discover all these...

Check any poll of the best cities in North America and you'll see Vancouver near the top of the list. The only places that beat it are Victoria and, sometimes, San Francisco. The biggest city in BC, Vancouver is famed for letting its residents go from working in a high-rise office buildings all day to...

"At the age of twenty, Rick joined IBM Canada Ltd. as a computer operator and over his thirty years of service rose to lead international sales teams on multi-billion dollar deals. At age fifty, Rick retired to pursue personal interests. With life-long sweetheart, Phyllis, the couple bought a 2005 Harley-Davidson...

From Robin Esrock, author of The Great Canadian Bucket List, comes a look at the best that Canada’s prairies have to offer. Having travelled to over one hundred countries on six continents, international travel guru and bestselling author Robin Esrock turns his attention to the Canadian prairies....

Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the capital city of the province of Ontario. Known as the New York of Canada, Toronto is a hotbed for culture, art and entertainment. Like its American counterpart, Toronto offers a fast-paced, bustling lifestyle which the visitor will find mesmerizing.  One...

In tracing the pioneering role that German-speaking settlers from all over Europe and America played in the opening up and development of large parts of eastern and western Canada, Lehmann shows German Canadians to be one of Canada's founding peoples. His work establishes the important role played...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate...

A unique collection of 50 photographs, letters, magazine articles and children's schoolwork by Patricia Taylor, Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) teacher who lived and worked in the Nain-Nunatsiavut community 1966-67. It contains substantive historical evidence that makes an important contribution...

A unique collection of 32 historical photographs (with original captions)about a baptism, children and festivals in Nain - Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada. Taken by John Penny an 18 year old Voluntary Service Overseas teacher from the UK who lived and worked in the local community school...

A unique photo album of 55 historical photographs (with original captions) about husky dogs and views in the Nain – Nunatsiavut Labrador wilderness, Newfoundland and Labrador Province of Canada 1965-66. Taken by John Penny an 18 year old Voluntary Service Overseas teacher from the UK who lived and...

This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and...

The Honourable Aleck is the true story of the life and times of Alexander Rocke Robertson and Margaret Bruce Eberts, Aleck’s beloved wife ‘Maggie’. Born and raised in Chatham, Upper Canada, ‘Aleck’ Robertson came to British Columbia in 1864 as a young lawyer, and became one of BC’s most eminent...