Dundurn: 2215 books
by Arthur Slade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
At the age of nine, John Diefenbaker announced, "I'm going to be prime minister when I grow up." He never lost sight of his goal. Diefenbaker was prime minister of Canada from 1957-1963. He believed in social justice, opening up the North, and making things better for western farmers. Canadians responded...
Reinventing Brantford
A University Comes Downtown
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Award
One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century,...
Scrum Wars
The Prime Ministers and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1996
The image of the scrum – a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters – is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald’s day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited...
Right Turn
How the Tories Took Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1995
It wasn’t so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario’s political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinstripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years...
by Maria Da Silva, Andrew Hind
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
A new, expanded edition detailing Niagara-on-the-Lake’s ghostly inhabitants.
Long-dead British soldiers, grieving lovers, lingering spirits — Niagara-on-the-Lake’s long and colourful history is kept alive by ghosts of its past.
Through historical investigation and eyewitness accounts,...
Young Royals on Tour
William & Catherine in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
On April 29, 2011, Prince William of Wales married Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. The newlyweds' first royal tour took place in Canada from June 30 to July 8. People across the country rejoiced with the couple as they made their way through a land that holds special significance...
Terror Threat
International and Homegrown Terrorists and Their Threat to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
The discovery of a suspected homegrown Islamic terrorist cell in our own backyard last year shocked most Canadians. The question arose: Is this country next on Al Qaeda's hit list? But although terrorism in Canada did not begin with Al Qaeda, its fundamental dynamics are as unfamiliar to most of the...
Fire Along the Frontier
Great Battles of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
A view of the War of 1812 from a social perspective.
This book provides a fresh new view of the battles of the war and goes behind the scenes to explore wartime trading activity, particularly American dealings with Napoleon and cross-border commerce, as well as the activities of John Jacob...
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of The Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour...
No More
The Battle Against Human Rights Violations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
The late twentieth century witnessed massive human rights violations. What can to done to stop them? How can the root causes be addressed? The issue of human rights has become the secular religion of our time. Yet violations continue to occur in a gross and flagrant manner. Author David Matas examines...
Another Country, Another Life
Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home —...
Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle
Cottage Daze/Still in a Daze at the Cottage
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This special bundle contains both of James Ross’ essential companion volumes to the great Canadian tradition of life at the cottage. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the first time, launching a boat while the whole world seems to...
The Battlefield of Ontario Politics
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
2015 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
Greg Sorbara presents a front-row seat to some of the most significant changes in Ontario politics.
Greg Sorbara has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of any Ontario politician, and in two different Liberal administrations. He was appointed...
by Nadia Fezzani
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
An in-depth look at the men and women who call themselves "Real Life Super Heroes."
Dressed like heroes from comic books and action movies, Real Life Super Heroes are out there. They dress up at night, fight crime, save people, and some of them even have secret identities. Are they...