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Cover of The University as Publisher
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961

It is doubtless inevitable that a publishing house should celebrate an important anniversary by publishing a book. It is perhaps equally inevitable that such a book should include a description of the founding and growth of the house concerned. However, it is hoped that The University as Publisher...
Cover of Wolfe and Montcalm
by H.R. Casgrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964

The Abbé H.R. Casgrain (1831-1904) was an important French-Canadian historian, biographer, and literary figure. He edited the papers of Maréchal de Lévis, and was the biographer of Mère Marie de l'Incarnation. In addition, he was the author of verse and literary criticism. He was a charter member...
Cover of The Settlers in Canada.

The Settlers in Canada.

Written for young people, by Captain Marryat.

by Captain Frederick Marryat
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

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The Golden Boy of Crime

The Almost Certainly True Story of Norman "Red" Ryan

by Jim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

For readers of The Devil in the White City and The Massey Murder, the incredible story of Norman “Red” Ryan—“the Jesse James of Canada” and the “Kardashian” of the 1920s and ’30s Dubbed “the Jesse James of Canada,” Norman “Red” Ryan was infamous in the 1920s and ’30s...
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The Black Loyalists

The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870

by James W. St. G. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017

There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per...
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Essence of Indecision

Diefenbaker's Nuclear Policy, 1957-1963

by Patricia I. McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

Tracing Diefenbaker's deliberations over nuclear policy, McMahon shows that Diefenbaker was politically cautious, not indecisive - he wanted to acquire nuclear weapons and understood from public opinion polls that most Canadians supported this position. However, Diefenbaker worried that the growing...
Cover of Truth and Indignation

Truth and Indignation

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools

by Ronald Niezen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions:...
Cover of A Century of Maritime Science

A Century of Maritime Science

The St. Andrews Biological Station

by
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada’s oldest permanent marine research institution. A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective...
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The Battle of the Somme

The First and Second Phase

by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

On the 1st July, 1916, 20,000 British troops lost their lives during the first day of the Somme.  Artillery had barraged the German lines for seven days, but the Germans were heavily dug in and many shells failed to explode due to the wet ground.  The bombardment signalled to the Germans...
Cover of Canada and the Canadians, volume 1
by Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1849. "Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very little about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an enlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and calculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely...
Cover of Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980
by Terrence Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980. Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and resentment, the study screens...
Cover of The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolf
by William Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014

Wolfe was a soldier born. Many of his ancestors had stood ready to fight for king and country at a moment's notice. His father fought under the great Duke of Marlborough in the war against France at the beginning of the eighteenth century. His grandfather, his great-grandfather, his only uncle, and his only brother were soldiers too.
Cover of Brock and Becca: View Niagara Falls
by Lois W. Marlatt
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014

Brock’s cousins come to visit and that means Brock now has four young girls to bother him. Another older cousin named Stephen joins them for water fun at the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. After the cousins leave, more company arrives and it is back to the Falls again. This time they visit birds...
Cover of Countdown to Danger: Canadian Survival
by Jeff Szpirglas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive! Back with even more danger and daring, and a dash of fun, this fourth installment of the choose-your-own-path series features serious survival scenarios, Canadian style! You begin your quest for survival stranded...
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