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Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the Wilderness by Chris Czajkowski Synopsis This is a bestselling account of one woman's journey into remote British Columbia, where she cleared a piece of land and built her own home. Illuminated by the author's own drawings, Cabin at Singing River is an inspiring book, realistic about how beauty... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Calling the Maritimes Home: Origins, Attitudes, Quirks & Curiosities by Julie V Watson Publisher Comments From Anne of Green Gables to Ashley MacIsaac, from the Cape Breton Highlands to the Bay of Fundy, the Maritimes offer a rich variety of culture and history. This book, written by the author of "Simple Pleasures from Our Maritine Kitchens," celebrates... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wilderness Dreams by Jack Boudreau Publisher Comments Jack's fourth book documents the amazing adventures of the Bowden family in the rugged wilderness of British Columbia's interior. It is largely based on 40 years of diaries kept by Liza Bowden.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton Publisher Comments Now Back in Print! "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." Pierre... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trafficking in Sheep: A Memoir: From Off-Broadway, New York, to Blue Island, Nova Scotia by Anne Barclay Priest Publisher Comments A poignant story of one woman's determination to start a life anew in idyllic Nova Scotia, far away from her jetsetting-New Yorker roots. <BR>A working actress and divorced mother of two young boys takes off for the summer to the coast of Nova... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Totem Poles and Tea by Eldon Lee Synopsis In 1935, a young woman left the comfort and security of home to take her first job in an isolated village, which was the home of the Mamalilikulla people and two dedicated English ladies who operated a small mission outpost and preventorium for children... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Over Canada: An Aerial Adventure by Russ Heinl Publisher Comments This book portrays the diverse and scenic landscape of Canada through words and 155 high-quality colour aerial photographs of cities, towns, mountains, lakes, rivers, coastlines, forests, farmland, deserts, volcanoes, glaciers, and icebergs. Recommended... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery by Alexandra Heilbron Publisher Comments Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canada's most beloved author, not only gave the world the classic novel Anne of Green Gables, but she was also a devoted minister's wife, mother, neighbour, and friend to many, who in turn were honoured to have know this great lady.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Jedediah Days: One Woman's Island Paradise by Mary Palmer Publisher Comments British Columbia's Jedediah Island is now a popular marine park, 640 acres of natural splendour tucked in between Texada and Lasqueti islands in the Strait of Georgia. But when Mary Palmer and her husband purchased the island half a century ago, they... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tragedy on Jackass Mountain: More Stories from a Small-Town Mountie by Charles Scheideman Publisher Comments Former RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman, author of Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie, is back with the same wry humour and a new collection of incredible stories drawn from his twenty-seven years of patrolling the small... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wacousta, Or, the Prophecy: A Tale of the Canadas (New Canadian Library) by John Richardson Publisher Comments Set in the 1760s at the time of Pontiacs Indian alliance against the British, Wacousta combines elements of revenge tragedy and gothic romance in reconstructing a violent episode in Canadian frontier history. In Major John Richardsons vivid depiction... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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How To Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson Publisher Comments It isn't always easy being Canadian, according to Will Ferguson, but it can be a lot of fun. Asked to write a follow-up to his runaway bestseller"... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Viking America: The First Millennium by Geraldine Barnes Publisher Comments Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $109.50 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Why Canadian Unity Matters by Charles F Doran Publisher Comments Why is Canadian unity important to democratic pluralism worldwide? Democratic pluralism is the ability of different cultural and language communities to find representation under a single set of democratic institutions, however configured. Although... (read more) List Price $74.50 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson Publisher Comments Will Fergusons first book in three years, following on the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour). Will Ferguson has spent the past three years criss... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief History of Canada by Roger Riendeau Publisher Comments This single volume provides a concise, highly readable introduction to the growth and development of a unique land and its people. Veteran historian Roger Riendeau masterfully surveys the origins of Canada from its First peoples through European contact,... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Memoirs: 1939-1993 by Brian Mulroney Publisher Comments Politics was always Brian Mulroneys real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan Publisher Comments History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Far North - the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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News: Postcards from the Four Directions by Drew Hayden Taylor Publisher Comments In this collection of short humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spectacular Canada by Gerald Bryan Hall Publisher Comments Celebrate the great north country of Canadaa land of tremendous richness of multicultural traditions, of wildlife, of topographyand enjoy all it has to offer. It has mountains loftier than any peak in the Alps and a wildlife show that rivals East Africas.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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