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by Deborah Cowley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Canadian surgeon Lucille Teasdale and her husband founded Lacor Hospital in northern Uganda in 1961. For 35 years the two doctors treated such contagious diseases as malaria, TB, and AIDS, and Teasdale performed thousands of operations under difficult conditions. They lived through civil war, hostage...
by Peterborough Field Naturalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Here you will find a wealth of information on the fauna, flora, and natural wonders of the Kawarthas.
The Kawarthas sit astride the Canadian Shield and fertile lands to the south. This is cottage country a place where people are closer to nature and where children and adults remark on the sightings...
Quetico
Near to Nature's Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. Long-recognized as a gem among parks, Quetico contains some of the largest stands of old-growth red and white pine in Canada , as well as a diversity of fascinating lichens, carnivorous plants in specialized habitats.
The...
What Your Doctor Really Thinks
Diagnosing the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Q. You’ve been sent for a stress test. Does this mean your doctor thinks there’s something wrong with your heart?
A. Not necessarily. Doctors often schedule stress tests when they are certain a patient’s heart is healthy. So why the test?
In What Your Doctor Really Thinks, Ian...
My Second Life
Living with Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
At the age of 37, Bill Harshaw was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The news changed his life forever,bringing forth a saga that will give hope to not only Parkinsonians, but to people with chronic disease everywhere. My Second Life is not a detailed road map or a set of instructions. Instead,...
The Scalpel, the Sword
The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Originally published in the early 1950s, The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner against private medicine, communist, and graphic artist. Bethune belonged to that international contingent of individuals who recognized...
The Franklin Conspiracy
An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year...
Skinheads, Fur Traders, and DJs
An Adventure Through the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The true story of a legend of Canadian pop culture broadcasting and the way he got his start in the 1970s: working as a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Northwest Territories and then moving on to DJing in disco-era Vancouver.
A true story of an adventurous pop-loving teenager...
by S.P. Hozy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore — one in the present and the other in the 1920s. Artist Maris Cousins has lived in Singapore for four years, but the sudden death of her mentor, gallery owner Peter Stone, causes her to stop painting and leave Singapore to reconnect...
Loose Ends
A Jack Taggart Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
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Jack Taggart, an undercover Mountie, lives in a world where the good guys and the bad guys change places in a heartbeat. Taggart is very good at what he does. Too good to be playing by the rules. The brass decide to assign a new partner to spy on him.
Taggart's new...
Eunice Dyke
Health Care Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1996
From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke. A dynamic personality whose determination improved public health care and nurses’ education, and began the recognition of senior citizens’ needs; yet she was fired at the height of her nursing career. A woman described as "ahead of her time."
Bridging the Strait
The Story of The Confederation Bridge Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
June 1997 marked the opening of the Confederation Bridge which spans the Northumberland Strait and connects Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.
The bridge, designed and built by the international consortium Strait Crossing, is one of the most innovative engineering projects undertaken in...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Toronto has hosts of ghosts that go as far back as the War of 1812…and others as recent as the Nineties. From the spirit of the Keeper of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse to the four spectres that haunt the stairwells and corridors of Queen’s Park, our most conspicuously ghostly presences and sites...
Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2
A Collection of Classics with 150 Fascinating New Items
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Once again Doug Lennox, the toastmaster of trivia, serves up a mammoth selection of some of his most cherished Q&As culled from his previous books. Also featured in this wide-ranging compendium are 150 brand-new questions answered with Doug’s inimitable flair for unearthing intriguing arcana on...