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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's Atlantic... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Mrs. Mike by Nancy Freedman Publisher Comments A classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide, Mrs. Mike brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and masterfully evokes the tender, touching moments that bring a man and a woman together forever. Recently... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Champlain's Dream by David Fischer Publisher Comments In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's Atlantic... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador (Vintage Departures) by John Gimlette Publisher Comments Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters youll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire and Ice by Michael Adams Publisher Comments Canadians have long defined themselves as "not Americans." They cherish their differences from the United States, but as their powerful neighbour grows ever more dominant on the world stage, can they hope to hold on to their national identity? In Fire... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Competing Against America: Why Canada Has Fallen Behind in the Race for Talent and Wealth by Michael Alexander Publisher Comments Competing Against America In this provocative and hard-hitting book, Michael Alexander has a direct and unflinching message for all Canadians: our standard of living is in free fall, and has been for almost 25 years. Currently, Canada's standard of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.48 Used - Hardcover
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Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillion Wallace Publisher Comments A best-selling Arctic classic set against the unforgiving Labrador landscape.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson and Ian Ferguson Publisher Comments A hilarious inside look at that unique species, the Canadian, and their thoughts on such diverse subjects as beer, sex, dating rituals, sports, politics, religion-and, of course, their trademark death-defying search for the middle of any road. Over 100... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories From Canada's British War Brides by Linda Granfield Publisher Comments Canada’s war brides were the young women who met, fell in love with, and married Canadian servicemen in Europe in World War II. Forty-eight thousand from Britain, with 22,000 children, followed their husbands to Canada during and just after the war.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland by John Mack Faragher Publisher Comments On 25 August 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been our secret Enemies..." John Mack Faragher tells the story of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? by Geo F. Takach Synopsis One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy stereotypes of oil-spoiled, beef-eating, bible-thumping rednecks devoid of class or culture. Through essay... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Charter Conflicts: What Is Parliament's Role? by Janet Hiebert Publisher Comments Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or to what extent the government believes it should be constrained by... (read more) Your price: $95.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland Publisher Comments Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadiannow and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Canadian Politics Unplugged by Eric Nicol Publisher Comments Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged bravely breaks new ground in ignoring this question. The book concentrates on the central problem of... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages by Richard Harris Synopsis While there is a broad consensus that North American economic integration has benefits for Canadians' standard of living, there are also concerns that deeper economic integration may restrict Canada's ability to pursue domestic goals in a number of... (read more) List Price $88.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror by Daniel Francis Publisher Comments Seeing Reds tells the story of a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 the Canadian government, fearful in the wake of the Russian Revolution, tried to suppress radical political activity at home by branding legitimate labor leaders as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave by Daniel Hays Publisher Comments After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada by Bruce Mccall Publisher Comments His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Heading for Home by Zahava Hanan Publisher Comments Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Didn't Fit in: How Canada's Most Wanted Outlaw Began His Life of Crime by Dick North Publisher Comments There is a breed of man who never settles, can't stop running, doesn't fit in. Such men thrive on adventure and the freedom of vast, open spaces. Johnny Conrad Johnson was one such desperado, a man who defied a combined force of trappers and the Royal... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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