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Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America by Barry Gough Publisher Comments Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian navel and maritime history Finalist for the Nereus Writers'Trust Non-fiction Award Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prize Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover 
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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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Too Close for Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments Canadas greatest advocate considers our place in Bushs world order. Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was “open for business,” has there been such a push toward continental... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry Into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 That Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 by Denis Vaugeois Publisher Comments He looks at the same events from three different perspectives - as empirical facts, in their legal interpretation, and as the subject of debates by historians. The result is an intriguing detective story with unexpected twists and surprising revelations.... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike by Jennifer Duncan Publisher Comments She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski Synopsis At once a riveting adventure story and a testament to one woman's resourcefulness, Nuk Tessli is also a heartfelt elegy to the true wilderness and a cry for it's sensible use.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Frontenac: The Courtier Governor by W J Eccles Publisher Comments Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1622-1698), was a towering figure in North American history. Appointed in 1672 as governor general of New France, he was credited with intimidating the Iroquois, defying British colonial military might, and promoting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon by Helene Dobrowolsky Publisher Comments A northern author looks at the challenges faced by the Mounties in Canada's Yukon Territory over the last 100 years, from their arrival on the eve of the world-famous Klondike Gold Rush, to the present. Through vivid photos, careful research and use of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Montreal Then and Now: D'Hier Et D'Aujourd'hui by Alan Hustak Publisher Comments Considered North America's most "European" city, Montreal is known for its culture, sophisticated population and its amazing architectural history. The latest title in the hugely popular Then and Now series takes readers to Quebec's charming capital city... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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One Man's Gold Rush: A Klondike Album by Murray Morgan Publisher Comments When Eric A. Hegg rushed north to Alaska in 1897 he was a journeyman photographer, largely self-trained. He forced a sled load of photographic equipment across the coastal mountains in the dead of winter. He hiked out to the claims on Bonanza and... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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