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by Alan Haig Brown  Publisher Comments Magnificent, exhilarating and treacherous, the Fraser is one of the world's great rivers. In this spectacular full-colour book, Alan Haig-Brown and Rick Blacklaws share their longtime fascination with all 850 miles of one of British Columbia's most... (read more)  List Price $34.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Craig Heron Publisher Comments For most Canadians today, Labour Day is the last gasp of summer fun: the final long weekend before returning to the everyday routine of work or school. But over its century-long history, there was much more to the September holiday than just having a day... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Desmond Morton Publisher Comments Canadians believe that their history is short, boring and irrelevant. They are wrong on all counts. - Desmond Morton, from the Introduction Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvyn Austin Publisher Comments Christian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples, Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott have brought together new and established Canadian scholars to examine the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexandra Cas Publisher Comments The book will be of interest to macroeconomists studying economic growth, capital accumulation, technical advance, growth accounting, and input-output analysis.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $14.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francis M Carroll Book News Annotation "The Canadian-American boundary was a source of serious irritation, threats of violence, and endless bad feeling within the Anglo- Canadian-American world from the end of the War for American Independence until almost the middle of the 19th century... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $17.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Janice Weaver Publisher Comments Canada and the art of photography came into existence together in the middle of the nineteenth century. Both had shaky beginnings -- one was an upstart country struggling to emerge from the shadow of its great neighbor, the other a rough art form capable... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John D Adams Publisher Comments At the pinnacle of his career, Sir James Douglas, fur trader and colonial governor, was knighted by order of Queen Victoria. Considering his modest beginnings as a mixed-race baby in South America, this lofty status was remarkable.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen Dalzell Publisher Comments History from the inside out: the author's parents, who risked everything to settle on the islands they loved.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Kingscote Publisher Comments In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback. Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Shape Publisher Comments William Shape's dramatic journal and accompanying photographs give a human dimension to the journey undertaken by vast hordes of prospectors who headed north during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. This previously unpublished diary was compiled... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J E Hodgetts Book News Annotation Offers comprehensive treatment of antenna-structure analysis and design, for professionals in structural, microwave, mechanical, and controls engineering, and in radio astronomy and project management. With emphasis on structures, optical geometry... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Kahn Publisher Comments Full of anecdotes and firsthand accounts from intriguing characters, "Salt Spring" is the engaging and thoroughly researched story of all these very special people, and the very special place they called home.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Weinstein Publisher Comments Originally conceived to encourage reading and writing within the prison system, this unique collection gives a dramatic voice to 12 convicts-cum-authors who expose the intimate details of their lives and struggles. Revealing a personal look at the daily... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeanne Elise Olsen Publisher Comments As a primary source for social historians, this remarkable memoir eloquently tells a personal story that reveals much about life in rural Quebec and the Canadian West through the first half of the twentieth century. This well-told account by the daughter... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tanya Lloyd Kyi 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 $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen E Dalzell Publisher Comments Here is the exciting history of the little-known Queen Charlotte Islands. Since 1774, when Europeans first encountered the proud and mighty Haida, adventurous men and women have been drawn to this farthest west region of Canada. Some were lured by sea... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Herd Thompson Publisher Comments This second volume in the Illustrated History of Canada series relates the eventful, occasionally violent history of the three "prairie" provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). Covering exploration as well as economic, political, and social... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wayne Johnston Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams introduces us to the Johnstons of Newfoundland in an intimate, captivating memoir of three generations of fathers and sons. The New York Times called Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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