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So, You Want to Be Canadian: All about the Most Fascinating People in the World and the Magical Place They Call Home by Kerry Colburn Publisher Comments So, you want to be Canadian? Who doesn't these days? Canucks are enjoying a major renaissance in attention, from their enlightened social policies to their wild and wooly pop culture. This playful, trivia-packed book is a long-overdue celebration of all... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 lifeand 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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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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Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski Publisher Comments Chris Czajkowski chose to build her life and small ecotourism business on the shore of a high-altitude lake near the southern tip of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. It is a formidable landscape of lake-dotted alpine plateaus abutting the glacier-swathed... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Heart (96 Edition) by James West Davidson Publisher Comments In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoors magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillon Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. But plagued by... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 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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Ottawa (Canada) by Whitecap Books Publisher Comments As expansive as Canada itself, this outstanding series captures outstanding views of panoramic landscapes, brilliant city skylines, and picturesque communities -- 96 pages and 70 stunning images by internationally renowned photographers, plus descriptive... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 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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Running with the Caribou by Pete Sarsfield Publisher Comments When Pete Sarsfield was a kid, he stammered badly. Words in his mouth were enemies, but from the time he was seven, words on paper became his friends. They are still friends in these personal essays about the people, places, and work of a Canadian... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $8.95 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Raincoast Chronicles 18 (Raincoast Chronicles) by Howard White Publisher Comments Where land meets sea, strange things happen, and most of them end up as stories. Like new driftlogs on a gravel beach, nine of the best are gathered here in issue number eighteen of the bestselling Raincoast Chronicles series. From a study of log barging... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 propectors and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 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 In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $13.50 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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Marching as to War: Canada's Turbulent Years 1899-1953 by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments I have called this period Canada's Turbulent Years - turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 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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Way of the Pipe by James Waldram Publisher Comments Prisons are an ominous fact of life for too many Aboriginal people. The Way of the Pipe explores how Aboriginal spirituality is finding its way into prisons and the role it is playing with Aboriginal inmates seeking to regain and to promote their... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Illustrated History of Canada by Craig (edt) Brown Publisher Comments An authoritative one-volume chronicle of Canada from its earliest times. First published in 1987, the 4th edition is fully updated and includes contemporary material on the rise of small government, Native land claims and Canada's post-Cold War role.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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