Dundurn imprint: 1894 books
by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Going to university used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more...
At the End of the Shift
Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1996
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual...
Strange but True
Canadian Stories of Horror and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes. Are there strange coincidences here? Yes. Are there strange creatures of the forest here? Yes. Are there conspiracies here? Yes. Are there...
Maps for Family and Local History (2nd Edition)
The Records of the Tithe, Valuation Office and National Farm Surveys, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas. Covering 1836 to 1943, the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys provide a wealth of information on rural and...
Haunted — Incredible True Stories of Ghostly Encounters 2-Book Bundle
Haunted / Haunted Too
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had in the past had such a high...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province. It turns out that, far from being a humdrum part of the planet in which to live and work, Ontario is a province that is alive...
by Ann Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind. While she is in the peaceful graveyard of nearby Barkerville she finds a small gold ring that has very special powers. By twisting...
by Tony Ruprecht
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Toronto is truly a city of communities. Designed for tourists and for residents, Toronto’s Many Faces is the one and only guide to the multicultural character of the city, featuring profiles of more than 60 ethnic communities, including local histories, festivals, food, and art. The book identifies...
by Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology investigates the ancient and widespread belief that numbers have unexplained powers to influence our lives, everything we do, and everything around us, so that, as the brilliant scientist and philosopher Sir James Hopwood Jeans wrote, "The Great Architect...
Caribou and the North
A Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
"If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds.
Right...
From Far and Wide
A Complete History of Canada's Arctic Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britain's Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago. In 1874 Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie agreed to...
Nothing More Comforting
Canada's Heritage Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Nothing More Comforting is a reflection of our society: an eclectic mix of many different cultures and traditions. Dorothy Duncan -- with her extensive knowledge of heritage foods -- has chosen her favourite "Country Fare" columns from the popular Century Home magazine for this wonderful...
The Site
A Personal Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Poetry or potsherds? That’s the surprising dilemma one of Canada’s well-known nature writers confronts in The Site: A Personal Odyssey, a highly personalized account of a lifetime’s involvement as an avocational archaeologist. With deft descriptive powers, Robert Nero leads us gently into this...
Death's Shadow
True Tales of Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
"Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic ...” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow.
Wells...