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Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of sc...

An Exploration Of The Arctic Sky--its Constellations, Legends And Mythology, The Sun, Moon, Planets, And 'shooting Stars, ' As Well As Atmospheric Phenomena...

100 years of love, celebration, heartbreak, and even parades On December 19, 2017, the Toronto Maple Leafs officially turn 100. In the spirit of the centen...

With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic st...

The Scots who populated the New World that became Canada brought vitality and a unique character to a vast land. Adventurous, hardworking and sometimes outr...

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issu...

How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained? Is it independent of concepts, beliefs, and practices? How can we account...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the bac...

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime...

A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geog...

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 O...

although Canada's Citizens Are Usually Thought Of As Law-abiding And Loyal To Authority, There Have Been Some Notable And Powerful Rebels.from Fiery Spiri...

Book by Howley, James PatrickCategories: Travel Canada ProvincesNewfoundland

On The Eve Of Canada's Sesquicentennial Celebrations Comes A Richly Rewarding New Book From Acclaimed Historian Charlotte Gray About What It Means To Be Can...

In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil—and in the rest of the world—as it appeared in tr...

Nova Scotia is blessed with a rich language. It is literally littered with words and expressions that vary from county to county, and town to town. From a ...

John Bryden. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 299-300) And Index.Categories: History Military Weapons & WarfareBiological & Chemical

In the summer of 2002, the discovery of a cave on Shuswap Lake in British Columbia by a group of houseboaters made headlines across the country. It had be...

In this unique collection, some thirty Hopi elders reveal for the first time in written form the Hopi world-view.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences ...

As The Son Of George Manuel, Who Served As President Of The National Indian Brotherhood And Founded The World Council Of Indigenous Peoples In The 1970s, Ar...

Saul, John RalstonCategories: History Americas CanadaFirst Nations

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Ki...

Once Again, John Ralston Saul Presents The Story Of Canada's Past So That We May Better Understand Its Present -- And Imagine A Better Future. Historic Mome...

Adam Shoalts. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyHistori...

1. Introduction -- 2. Building Trust -- 3. Shredding The Evidence -- 4. The Getty Cuts -- 5. The Klein Cuts: Where Albertans Stand Now -- 6. The Leaky Repor...

Winner Of The 2003 Trillium Book Award Stories Are Wondrous Things, Award-winning Author And Scholar Thomas King Declares In His 2003 Cbc Massey Lectures. A...

This Nonfiction Book Examines How We Can Foster Reconciliation With Indigenous People At Individual, Family, Community And National Levels--Categories: Poli...

A biography of Cochise, the Apache chief, whose life illustrates the values of trust and truth.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cu...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

The First Book In The Women's Suffrage And The Struggle For Democracy Series Provides A Nuanced View Of Women's Fight For The Vote At A Federal Level. Accla...

Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as wel...

Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario's towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; ...

Policing Black Bodies Is A Timely And Much-needed Exposure Of Historical And Contemporary Practices Of State-sanctioned Violence Against Black Lives In Cana...

Introduction -- John Parmenter Robarts (1961-1971) -- William Grenville Davis (197-1985) -- Frank Stuart Miller (1985) -- David Robert Peterson (1985-1990) ...

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first leg...

This Book Is As It Says A Salute To Canada And Canadian Achievement. It Includes Some Well Known, Several Lesser Known And Some Unexpected Canadian Firsts. ...

A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret...

Poised to capitalize on renewed political interest following the federal election, the trade paperback edition of What’s Happened to Politics? is sure to ...

A revised, updated and even more Canadian edition of the classic bestseller. In 1977, The Book of Lists, the first and best compendium of facts weirder tha...

It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring―and successful...

WHILE THE CITY SLEPT is a figment of the author's imagination concerning historical preservation and Urban Renewal in the city of Saint John, NB Canada. It ...

The Explosion Of Craft Beer Variety In North America Has Created A Climate Of Amazing Quality And Bewildering Options For Beer Drinkers. In Ontario, The Boo...

"Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peo...

In the tradition of Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation and the bestselling Flags of Our Fathers, Blake Heathcote brings together stirring and fascin...

Do you want to know how Canada became one of the richest nations on Earth? Read about the 50 most important events in Canadian History, from the first Settl...

as A North American Of European Ancestry, Victoria Freeman Sought To Answer The Following Question: How Did I Come To Inherit A Society That Has Disposses...

To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful serv...

At Company's Coming, we never underestimate how humble garlic can truly transform a meal. We've combed our archives and come up with recipes for breads, con...