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My Famous Evening by Howard Norman Publisher Comments Master storyteller Howard Norman draws on more than 30 years of visiting Nova Scotia for this remarkable ''book of selective memories.'' Combining stories, folklore, memoir, nature, poetry, and expository prose, the chapters of My Famous Evening ''may be... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Pepper in Our Eyes: The Apec Affair by W. Wesley Pue Publisher Comments In November 1997, the world media converged on Canada to cover a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vancouver. A student protest met unusually strong police response. Among many others, a news cameraman was pepper-sprayed by an irate... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North by Lael Morgan Publisher Comments In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that "half world... (read more) List Price $14.36 Your price: $12.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Do Conventions Matter?: Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada by John C. Courtney Publisher Comments Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin... (read more) Your price: $95.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Roughing It in the Bush, or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodie Publisher Comments Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $29.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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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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Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships by Peter Johnson Publisher Comments A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong by Alan Broadbent Publisher Comments Canada’ s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government— or any government, for that matter— to act on the issues that... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada by Julia Roberts Publisher Comments In Mixed Company is a history of taverns as colonial public space, and of the women and men of varied backgrounds that found a place for themselves within it. These are the stories of three labourers who "amused themselves with drinking in good... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $28.40 Google eBooks - Electronic
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While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World by Andrew Cohen Publisher Comments For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride? With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Dunsmuir Saga by Terry Reksten List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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