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Exploring Toronto's history through tantalizing true tales of romance, marriage, and lust. Toronto's past is filled with passion and heartache. The Toronto...

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...

As Canadian As The Maple Leaf Is How One Observer Summed Up The United Church Of Canada After Its Founding In 1925. But Was This Canadian-made Church Flawed...

How One Of Canada's Greatest Natural Disasters Has Been Remembered And Forgotten.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone again...

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 ...

Susan Pryke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95) And Index.Categories: Travel Canada ProvincesOntario

To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, Governor General David Johnston and Tom Jenkins have crafted a richly illustrated volume of brilliant Canadian innova...

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lo...

April 24th, 1951,was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their live...

Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role ...

Beaumont Hamel was the Somme sector assigned as an objective to the independent-minded professional-class reservists of the London Division in 1916; they ac...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscoveri...

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both ...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

Sharon Wall ; Foreword By Graeme Wynn. Include Bibliographical References (p. 334-354) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesC...

No matter where you enter the history of Canada – through exploration, politics, business, education or literature -- you find that the Scots and their d...

Narrating a Nation: Canadian History Pre-Confederation is a lively, narrative approach to pre-confederation history. Events are followed chronologically, fo...

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...

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the...

Presents An Intellectual History Of The West's Bias Against Tribalism That Explains How Acts Of War And Dispossession Have Been Justified In The Name Of Civ...

Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, ...

From bestselling author Mark Spector comes the behind-the-scenes story of the Canadian World Junior program’s journey from obscurity to the international...

Harry Bruce. Includes Bibliographical References Pages 291-300.Categories: History Americas CanadaProvince & Local

Everyone Knows Than Canada Sheltered Over 30,000 Americans Escaping The Draft, But Not Many Are Aware That For Every Draft Dodger, A Canadian Illegally Volu...

On the 22nd April 1915, towards the end of the afternoon, a strange yellow-green cloud appeared over no man’s land and drifts on the wind towards the Fren...

Canada has the longest coastline of any nation on earth, together with the world’s largest lake and river system. In fact, bounded on three sides by oce...

Alan Gordon Shows That While Individual Memory Is Crucial To Establishing And Maintaining Identity, Public Memory Is Contested Terrain - Official Customs An...

Chris Gainor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 252-254).Categories: History MilitaryAviation

A Biography Of The Political Life Of John Napier Turner, Who Became Leader Of The Liberal Party Of Canada, Following Pierre Elliott Trudeau, And Who Was Bri...

In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from...

Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirt...

Legends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been ...

[by] Thomas E. Mails. Bibliography: P. 601-606.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization. Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire wi...

Diane Francis. Includes Index.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

Canada And The Third World Provides A Long Overdue Introduction To Canada's Historical Relationship With The Third World.Categories: Politics & Social S...

Ripper: The Making of Pierre PoilievreCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World PoliticsCanadian

In this 60th anniversary edition is Ted Barris' telling of the unique story of Canada's largest World War II expenditure - $1.75 billion in a Commonwealth-w...

During The Second World War, Canadians Found Themselves Behind Enemy Lines In Europe And Asia. Not All, Were Ill-fated Airmen Shot Down In The Fury Of Battl...

Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology • Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternat...

Bessner Conducted Hundreds Of Interviews And Extensive Archival Research To Paint A Complex Picture Of The Role Of Canadian Jews In The War Effort.Categorie...

Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Cas...

"Black's Manifesto reminds us who we were and, therefore, who we are. In doing so, he lays the groundwork for us to consider who we might yet become." - J...

PROJET DU BILINGUISME CANADIENCategories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

P. J. Naworynski. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Sports & Outdoors MiscellaneousOlympic Games

The best-selling Weird But True line is now exploring north of the U.S. border! Follow along to learn tons of fun facts about the outrageous oddities and k...