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The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-Ninth Parallel
by Sterling (edt) Evans  Publisher Comments The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays bringing together scholars from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel to examine life in a transboundary region. The result is a text that reveals the...
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Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage Through Time
by Sam Mckinney Synopsis "Could I have been one of them?" That was what Sam McKinney wondered as he retraced, alone, the explorations of Captain George Vancouver and his men from Puger Sound to Queen Charlotte Sound. In the 1790s, they rowed for long hours day after day, camping...
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I Married the Klondike
by Laura Beatri Berton Synopsis Now Back in Print!< br> "I Married the Klondike is a Canadian classic that has been anthologized, serialized and televised and in her twilight years it brought to my mother a modicum of fame, which she thoroughly enjoyed."< br> --Pierre...
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
by Richmond P., Jr. Hobson Synopsis A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior....
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Curse of the Narrows
by Laura M. Macdonald Publisher Comments Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Within minutes, the...
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Ghost Towns of Muskoka
by Andrew Hind About the Author Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow -- or spectre -- of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely,...
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The Day the World Came To Town
by Jim Defede Publisher Comments "For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They...
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The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1920 to Present
by Howard G. (edt) Coombs About the Author Howard Coombs is the co-editor of The Operational Art -- Canadian Perspectives: Context and Concepts, published by Canadian Defence Academy Press in 2005. He is also a co-author, with General Rick Hillier, of "Planning for Success: The Challenge of...
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The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of...
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Canada: A Celebration from A to Z (Volume 1)
by Ray Solitaire Publisher Comments Canada: A Celebration from A to Z is an important survey of the people, events, and history of a country that holds peace and tolerance in the highest regard. Author Ray Solitaire, a respected chronicler of the country's much-lauded embrace of social...
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Canada a Peoples History Volume 2
by Don Gillmor Publisher Comments The top non-fiction bestseller of fall 2000 was the authoritative and beautiful Canada: A People’s History, Volume One. For fall 2001, M&S is proud to present the equally stunning and comprehensive second volume of this landmark work. This fall,...
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Inuit
by Barbara A. Gray Synopsis Each title includes these topics: - Original homelands - War - Society - Important members - Homes - Contact with Europeans - Food - The nation/tribe today - Children - Family - Myths - Crafts - Clothing - Full-color photographs - Diagrams - Maps - Index...
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Women of the Klondike
by Frances Backhouse Publisher Comments Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women--entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists--who played a critical role in the Klondike Gold Rush....
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Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony
by Robert Ruby Publisher Comments Here is the true story of how the first European colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown but on a mostly frozen, pocket...
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Canada
by Don Gillmor Pierre Turgeon Publisher Comments How can we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it rings especially loudly in the ears of Canadians. Canada: A People’s History doesn...
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A Brief History of Canada, Revised Edition (Brief History)
by Roger Riendeau Book News Annotation This is a new edition of a general history of Canada by Riendeau (U. of Toronto, Canada) that extends the treatment through 2007. It begins in the pre-European settlement era and gives an account of French colonial development, the transition to...
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A History of the Canadian Peoples 2nd Edition
by J.M. Bumsted Publisher Comments This book provides an overview of the Canadian economy, society, family life, and culture, as well as confronting political and constitutional issues. Included within the text are sidebars, many of which are first-person accounts of the experiences of...
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Wolfe and Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent
by Joy Carroll Publisher Comments A fascinating profile of two generals who shaped history....
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Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies (Mountain Classics Collections 4)
by Hugh E. M. Stutfield Synopsis '. . . years ago the Dominion of Canada, stretching as it does over thousands of miles, covered with dense forests, watered by unnumbered rivers, and dotted over with countless lakes, was a land in many places as difficult of access as Siberia; and its...
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The Reindeer Herders of the MacKenzie Delta
by Gerry Conaty Synopsis An epic experiment of cultural evolution. In the 1920s the traditional migration routes of wild caribou changed, making it difficult for native Inuit hunters. Faced with a crisis of Inuit survival and having observed the success of reindeer herding in...
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