History Of Other Lands
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A Neighbourly War
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura ...
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Ghost Stories and Mysterious Creatures of British Columbia
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /Read about the ghost ships that ply the Pacific Ocean, the phantom carriage of Kelowna and the legends behind the elusive sasquatch and the water m...
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Ghost Stories of Manitoba
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /Chilling stories from all over Manitoba will keep you checking under the bed, behind closet doors and in the basement. The stories are about haunte...
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Ghost Town Stories of BC
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them ...
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Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West....
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Gold Fever
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this histor...
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Government House Halifax
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /Government House Halifax is the home of the Sovereign's representative in the Province of Nova Scotia and the ceremonial home of all Nova Scotians....
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Great Canadian Women
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women c...
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Great Canadians
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /This book pays tribute to just a few of the many people whose contributions to Canada are unique. From environmentalists to politicians, from sport...
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Greetings from British Columbia
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£27.99| /One hundred years ago, British Columbia was a resource-rich province greeting new arrivals from all over the world who'd come to seek their fortune...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /The spirited stories in Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin capture the severity and grace of the distinct pioneer culture that resides in British Colum...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /The Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin anthology celebrates this beautiful and remote region of British Columbia. From the days of the gold rush throug...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a delightful collection of tales by authors from British Columbia's rugged Cariboo-Chilcotin region, and a few "outsiders." Joining well-kn...
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Henry Hudson
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe's golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale...
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Her Voice, Her Century
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Cen...
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Hiding the Audience
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Fran Kaye looks at a variety of public arts institutions, including the Glenbow, Banff Centre, and 25th Street Theatre, to see how each has partici...
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History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru --an account of the Spanish conque...
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History of the Grey Cup
Folklore Publishing (CA)£15.99| /In 1909, the cup was commissioned by Albert Grey, Canada's Governor General, and was awarded for the first time to the Univerisity of Toronto Varsi...
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Hoaxes and Hexes
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a "humorous or malicious deception," and hex as "a magic spell." These stories of hoaxes and hexes i...
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Honoured in Places
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual ...
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Hooker & Brown
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...
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Hope Restored
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrant...
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Hope's Last Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£10.99| /South of Lethbridge, Alberta, Highway 62 climbs from the floor of an ancient glacial lake to the crest of a low ridge, crosses a continental divide...
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Hub City
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /The Nanaimo Bastion, which marked its 150th anniversary in 2003, remains a prominent symbol of Nanaimo's heritage as an HBC fort, coal-mining centr...
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Hudson's Bay Company Adventures
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and dang...
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If I Could Turn and Meet Myself
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...
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Imagining the Supernatural North
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream." Margaret ...
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Inside Chinatown
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£30.99| /Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocolla...
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Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters
Brindle & Glass (CA)£10.99| /Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in We...
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John Rae, Arctic Explorer
University of Alberta Press (CA)£50.99| /John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much gr...
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Just Getting Started
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /"The contribution made by the Edmonton libraries to the sanity and support of the citizens cannot be estimated. No Annual Report can gauge things o...
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Kootenai Brown
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Brown's remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider,...
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Larry Gorman
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...
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Lost Land of Moses
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In the middle of the nineteenth century, most of New Brunswick was pristine wilderness. But by the end of the century the map of eastern Canada wou...
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Maskepetoon
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /As a leader, Maskepetoon was respected for his skill as a hunter, his generosity and his wisdom. He was considered a "lucky" chief, a man who found...
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Measure of the Year
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his ...
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Montreal Canadiens
Overtime Books (CA)£7.99| /The Montreal Canadiens are the oldest established NHL franchise, and the second most successful professional sports club in North American sports h...
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More Ghost Stories of Alberta
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Spine-tingling, blood-curdling stories from Alberta's past and present. Features haunting tales of many well-known provincial buildings and landmar...
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Mount Assiniboine
Rocky Mountain Books (CA)£25.99| /A century of landscape art inspired by the Mount Assiniboine area of the Canadian Rockies from 1899 to 2006. Jane Lytton Gooch's Mount Assiniboine:...
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My Canada
Folklore Publishing (CA)£14.99| /With his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, humour writer Geordie Telfer rewrites some of the most celebrated and significant moments our country'...
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Native Chiefs and Famous Métis
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible o...
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Nechako Country
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /The indomitable spirit of Bert Irvine is at the heart of Nechako Country, a story that provides a glimpse into a simpler world in simpler times. Af...
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Niue 1774-1974
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /Tiny Niue lies alone in the south Pacific, a single island with formidable cliffs rising from the deep ocean. Far from the main shipping routes and...
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On The Street Where You Live
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In the mid-1800s, Victoria grew from a fur-trading post into a provincial capital--the jewel in British Columbia's golden crown. Meanwhile, many of...
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On the Street Where You Live
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Today, the streets of Victoria are busy thoroughfares. Yesterday, they were simple trails, used by the Hudson's Bay Company men and the First Natio...
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Ontario Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Barbara Smith's second collection of tales of the paranormal in Ontario. Meet the phantom who wanders the halls of a Brockville home dressed in alo...
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Ontario Place Names
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /The historical, offbeat, or humorous origins of more than 1000 communities. Revised and expanded, it includes populations, locations, major events,...
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