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In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?\Growing...

Whether Enemy Or Ally, Demon Or God, The Source Of Satisfaction Or The Root Of All Earthly Troubles, The Penis Has Forced Humanity To Wrestle With Its Endur...

What if you lived with the Sioux Indians?If you lived with the Sioux Indians--Would you hunt for food?--What kind of home would you live in?--What would be...

As Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act. In reality they were Bob and Mildred Restall, parents of three, who ...

The Actress Best Known For Her Work On Parks And Recreation And Saturday Night Live Reveals Personal Stories And Offers Her Humorous Take On Such Topics As ...

On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on t...

William Goetzmann And Glyndwr Williams ; [cartographic Director, Malcolm Swanston ; Maps Created By Isabelle Lewis And Jacqueline Land]. Cartographers From ...

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspi...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

An Examination Of Cuban Society Through The Music Of The 1920s-30s When It Began To Embrace Afro-cuban Culture. Traces How The African Element Of Cuban Soci...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

The Murder Of Abraham Lincoln Set Off The Greatest Manhunt In American History. From April 14 To April 26, 1865, The Assassin Led Union Cavalry And Detectiv...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

Was Golf Better (to Use One Of Tiger's Favorite Phrases) Back In The Day? In [this Book], Michael Bamberger, Who Fell For The Game As A Teenager In Its Wild...

The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the...

1. Images Of The Inuit. Film Imagery Of The Happy-go-lucky Eskimo. Nanook Reborn As Joseph Idlout. Stark Images Of Another North. Henry Larsen's Views On In...

Publisher Description: Learn To Communicate Without Words With These Authentic Signs! Learn Over 525 Signs Developed By The Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arap...

A Book About The Remarkable Life Of Elsie Macgill Who Achieved Many Firsts In Science And Engineering At A Time When Women Were Considered To Be Inferior In...

New York Times Bestseller In Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: The Funky Finds in Flavortown, Guy Fieri, one of Food Network’s biggest stars, keeps his motto ...

The Greatest Canadian -- Practical Christian, 1904-24 -- Boy Preacher, 1924-31 -- Reluctant Candidate, 1931-35 -- Member Of Parliament, 1935-45 -- A New Pre...

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new...

in The Spring Of 1851, Nine Members Of The Oatman Family Set Out For California On The Old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy Miles From The California Border They W...

So, you’re thinking about trying out Mexico? Good for you. Where will you live? Mexico is a big country and living in Tulum is nothing like living in Mexi...

Generations have come to marvel and celebrate spectacles of all kinds at Maple Leaf Gardens. With its soaring roof and massive walls, this iconic building t...

A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.Canada’s most distin...

Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives...

First Hand Accounts From Early To Mid-eighties Canadian Headbanger And Rocker Bands Of Their Lifestyles And Struggles To Obtain Record Deals. Sean Kelly. In...

Product Description A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues m...

Recounts The Story Of Canada's Largest Manhunt When Hundreds Of Men Spent 7 Weeks Tracking Albert Johnson Across The Frozen North. By Hélèna Katz. History...

Discover desperate circumstances in America's past and how men and women rose up with faith and courage and situations unexplainably turned around. Read of...

Compiled by Regina Leader-Post crime and court reporters Barb Pacholik and Jana Pruden, this volume contains accounts of 40 unique crime stories that have t...

Brimming with authentic detail and an unforgettable cast of characters—-from Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to Ulysses Grant and Custer himself—-this is his...

Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Cana...

Peter C. Newman's series on The Canadian Establishment has made publishing history, its two previous volumes having sold more than half a million copies. In...

Cowards don’t make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily...

Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit is a closely argued, lively, and readable biography of the central figure in the American Progressive movemen...

a Riveting Account Of The Fall Of Greece, The Battle Of Crete, And The Cretanresistance, From The Beginning Of World War Ii To Its End. library Journal few...

They were held in brutal captivity―and managed to make it out alive. This is their story. The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJ...

Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Ar...

A compelling argument that connects the lost treasure of the Knights Templar to the mysterious money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, that has baffled treas...

"Nowhere else have I found the passion for flavor that encompasses the lives of Louisianians, day in and day out," writes Emeril Lagasse. In Louisiana Real...

In 1665 the Carignan-Salières Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based eco...

This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not o...

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

A Religious, Well-educated Victorian, Eliot Curwen Takes Us Into The Heart Of The Colonial Society He Encountered. His Journal Provides Insights Into Its Pe...