Dundurn: 2215 books
A Winnipeg Album
Glimpses of the Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then...
Written in the Ruins
Cape Breton Island’s Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award — Shortlisted
Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.
From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even...
by Francine Legaré
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, by continuing further to the West. But the land called New France – a harsh land from India –...
Toronto's Local Movie Theatres of Yesteryear
Brought Back to Thrill You Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
2017 Theatre Library Association Book Awards — Nominated, Richard Wall Memorial Award
2017 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
Slip once more into the back rows of the favourite movie theatres of your youth.
“Brought Back to Thrill You Again” was an advertisement employed...
by Mike Filey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most popular...
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,...
Wilderness Secrets Revealed
Adventures of a Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
"Fire! Wake up! The shelter is on fire!"
His students affectionately call him "Doc Survival." He's Quebec's Indiana Jones in a forest setting. Searching for the treasures of the wilderness has been his life-long quest; with passion as his only guide, he has dared to penetrate...
The Cabin
A Search for Personal Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes,...
On the Threshold
Writing Toward the Year 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1999
In 1993, a group of five Kingston women–T. Anne Archer, Mary Cavanagh, Elizabeth Greene, Tara Kainer, Janice Kirk–began to compile ananthology about Canada at the point where one millennium becomes another. As the newly-formed Foxglove Collective, they solicited manuscripts that reflected origins...
Free Form Jazz
A Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Disgraced city cop Ray Tate and outcast state trooper Djuna Brown track down a wealthy sexual sadist and a depressed career criminal flooding a Midwestern U.S. city with killer ecstasy pills. Mismatched and mutually suspicious of each other, Tate and Brown hunt the mythic Captain Cook and his henchman,...
To Experience Wonder
Edna Staebler: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Canada's foremost cookbook author began her career, not as a cook, but as a journalist writing for Canadian magazines. She was 60 when she turned her attention to food. Food That Really Schmecks immediately became a best-seller, and continues to sell 35 years later. It's more than a book of wonderful...
Firing Lines
Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Read between the front lines: The stories of three Canadian female journalists stationed in England and France during the First World War.
Europe: 1914–18. Mary MacLeod Moore, a writer for Saturday Night Magazine, covered the war’s impact on women, from the munitions factories to the kitchens...
by Mark Frutkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award
Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets, painters, writers, and composers...
by Roger Lemelin
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The Town Below takes place in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City's Saint-Sauveur suburb. Saint-Sauveur is a parochial and provincial place where narrow piety and corruption can be found in every corner, and Denis and Lise, two adolescents in love, scandalize the town with their affair. Scheming politicians...