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It Was A Night That Changed The Second World War. The Secret Air Raid Against The Hydroelectric Dams Of Germany's Ruhr River Took Years To Plan, Involved An...

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...

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...

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...

Kirkpatrick Sale. Reprint. Originally Published: New York, Knopf, 1990. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: HistoryAmericas

Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable indi...

This is a highly illustrated and full-color collection of the greatest propaganda images ever. From Napoleonic war paintings via anti-Hitler posters to brut...

How can we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it r...

In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean co...

Saul, John RalstonCategories: History Americas CanadaFirst Nations

A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk...

Explore The Vestiges Of The Hamlets And Villages That Have Been Swallowed Up By Toronto’s Relentless Growth. Over More Than Two Centuries, Toronto Has Bal...

This New Seventh Edition Of Critical Approaches Seeks To Make Informed Critics Of Its Readers By Presenting The Challenging Concepts Of Canada S Political S...

"I don't know of any player, ever, who could strike a golf ball like Moe Norman...[He is a genius when it comes to playing the game of golf." - Lee Trevino....

1. Fall From Grace -- 2. Just A Simple Civil Servant -- 3. Thank God That's Over! -- 4. The Generals: There's No Life Like It. -- 5. The Grunts -- 6. Going ...

There were once two enemies who were both named George-George Washington and George III. They were very much alike in some ways, and they were both beloved...

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...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

In This Book Arthur Manuel And Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Challenge Virtually Everything That Non-indigenous Canadians Believe About Their Relationship W...

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...

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That acc...

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 ...

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...

the Daughter Of A Algonquin Mother And An Iroquois Father, Catherine/kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) Has Become Known Over The Centuries As A Catholic Conve...

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

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

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...

Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost...

[this Book] Takes You To The Western Front During The Great War. Experience The Risks Of Combat And The Many Close Calls Collishaw Had As A Pilot, Flight Co...

Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian le...

Foreword / Craig Brown -- A Note On The Illustrations / Robert Stacey -- When Two Worlds Met / Arthur Ray -- Colonization And Conflict: New France And Its R...

The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of th...

Armando Fuentes Aguirre Caton, es el columnista mas leido de Mexico. Sus articulos De politica y cosas peores y Mirador hacen reir y pensar cada dia a cient...

The emergence in the nineteenth century of a new political and territorial entity - Canada - is dramatically portrayed in this book. Through breathtaking ...

Stretching like an armor-toothed belt across Italy's upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified position the German army had yet thrown into the Al...

at The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, We Love All Things Canadian And Figure That Just Because We Weren’t Lucky Enough To Be Born In The Land Of The Norther...