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Best Tales of the Yukon: Including the Classic "Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
by Robert W Service  Publisher Comments In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten prospectors and...
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Mrs. Mike
by Benedict Freedman Publisher Comments Mrs. Mike is the love story of Katherine Mary O'Fallon, a young Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police, who is a priest, doctor and magistrate to all in the great Canadian wilderness area under his supervision....
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Farewell to the Twentieth Century
by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments In this "compendium of the absurd," Pierre Berton looks back on some of the fads, follies, and fancies of his century--a period his grandchildren are already calling the Olden Days. In close to fifty essays, fables, and pseudo-documents, Berton covers a...
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments One evening in late October 1958, the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped" — its rock floors heaved up and smashed into rock ceilings. Most of the men on the shift perished. But nineteen men were trapped alive a mile below the earth's surface,...
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The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada
by Chris Gudgeon Publisher Comments "The Naked Truth" is an insightful, informative, and irreverent look at sex in the Great White North. Both inspired and baffled by a recent poll that ranked Canadians the seventh sexiest people on Earth, author Chris Gudgeon covers everything from...
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Lost in North America
by John Gray Publisher Comments A personal, idiosyncratic tour of the collective work of art we call Canada....
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The History of Fort St. Joseph
by Graeme S Mount Publisher Comments In 1812 Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle: its garrison attacked and captured the American Fort Mackinac, thus ensuring British control of the Upper Great Lakes for the duration of the War of 1812. After the war, the fort was abandoned, but has since...
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In Good Faith: Canadian Churches Against Apartheid
by Renate Pratt Book News Annotation Explains why the Christian churches were among the first to publicly protest apartheid, and how they provided international support for the struggle against it. Pratt, the first coordinator of the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility-...
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Our Story Aboriginal Voices Canadas Past
by Rudyard Griffiths Publisher Comments A collection of original stories written by some of the country’s most celebrated Aboriginal writers, and inspired by pivotal events in the country’s history. Inspired by history, Our Story is a beautifully illustrated collection of original...
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Dixie & the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union
by Adam Mayers Publisher Comments Dixie & the Dominion is a compelling look at how the U.S. Civil War was a shared experience that shaped the futures of both Canada and the United States. Dixie's focus is the last year of the war, between April of 1864 and 1865. During that 12-month...
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Searching for the New Liberalism: Essays in Renewal
by Howard Aster Publisher Comments "It is clear today that the search for fundamental political ideas, for vital and viable political discourse, is taking many people--from the Pope to Tony Blair--back to the discourse on liberalism..."--from the...
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Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War
by George Melnyk Publisher Comments Noted academics, politicians and activists examine Canada's decision not to support the recent U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Each contributor opposed the U.S. action and discusses how Canada's non-involvement might impact the future of Canadian...
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The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past with Map
by David Macfarlane Publisher Comments Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of...
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Strange Events: Incredible Canadian Monsters, Curses, Ghosts and Other Tales (Amazing Stories)
by Johanna Bertin Publisher Comments What are the chances of being hit by lightning three times in one lifetime? And then, being hit again after you are dead and buried? This is just one of the incredible legends in this fascinating collection. From ghosts lurking on board mystery ships to...
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Salmon
by Geoff Meggs Publisher Comments Salmon: The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery is about both the fishery and the resource, as the one depends on the other. And that story — from the beginnings of the industry with the export of salted salmon in the 1830s and the canning for...
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The Voyageurettes: Their Legends and Stories
by Rebecca B Barry Publisher Comments The Voyageurettes are an amazing group of women!!! Granted, they are confident, competent and oh so intelligent. But add to that some awesome canoeing and outdoors skills and you have quite a collection. These women, all with the first name of "Marie...
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Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer Years in the Wet West (Spilsbury Saga)
by Jim Spilsbury Publisher Comments When Jim Spilsbury, B.C's most famous pioneer entrepreneur, teams up with master storyteller and literary craftsman Howard White, the result is a spell-binding romp up and down British Columbia's rugged coast; eighty years of fascinating anecdotes and...
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Crooked River Rats
by Bernard Mckay Publisher Comments Drift back in history to a time when the rivermen still plied their trade throughout the northern rivers of British Coumbia. Crooked River Rats tells the tales of the men and women who traveled the river highways living and working in the wilderness...
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Goodbye Canada?
by Paul Kemp Publisher Comments Through a variety of on-the-ground interviews with Canadians on both sides of the Canada/US border, the author analyses how international trade agreements and the free movement of workers and capital are threatening Canada's economic relevance on the...
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Limits of Rural Capitalism
by Kenneth M Sylvester Publisher Comments In the shadow of an industrializing and urbanizing world, these people, who came mainly from the District of Montreal and eastern Ontario, sometimes via New England, raised large families, drew largely on the unpaid labour of kin, owned their own farms...
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