History Of Other Lands
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The Right Fight
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...
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The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation. Volume 1
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /In the first chapter of The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation, the history of the province while under French rule is rapid...
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The Road to Canada
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north...
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The Rumrunners
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /The thirsty days of Prohibition in Alberta began at midnight on June 30, 1916, but many had been drinking so hard that the booze had long ago run o...
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The Spencer Mansion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. W...
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The Wolves at Evelyn
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /At once a memoir, a work of philosophy, a story of European immigration to Canada's dark places of the earth, and an exploration of the roots and e...
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Those Earlier Hills
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in e...
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Three Against the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...
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Till the Boys Come Home
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /A century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain rela...
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Trail to the Interior
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cas...
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Tributes to the Scarlet Riders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This engaging collection of verse captures the history and experience of the Mounties from the 1800s to the present day. Ranging from humorous to p...
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Trimming Yankee Sails
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic ...
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Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Rich in stories, the Crowsnest Pass region in the southern Rocky Mountains still bears evidence of its tragedies, and one monumental triumph--a rai...
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Trudeau's Tango
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Trudeau appeared to enjoy the encounter. He stood his ground while escaping projectiles, including a tomato... In this insightful and lively histor...
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Ukrainian Studies in Canada: Texts and Contexts
University of Alberta Press (CA)£23.99| /The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies' hallmark event for its fortieth anniversary in 2016 was a two-day conference held at the University of...
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Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years
University of Alberta Press (CA)£53.99| /Between 1925 and 1939 a second wave of Ukrainian immigration brought within its ranks many civically active and politicized newcomers to Canada. Th...
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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War on the Home Front
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experi...
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Weird Canadian Places
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£7.99| /The Canadian landscape is home to some pretty odd sights; for example, the UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, the ice hotel in Québec City or C...
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Weird Ontario Places
Blue Bike Books (CA)£7.99| /Canada's most populous province may also boast some of the weirdest places in the country. This enjoyable collection features hundreds of odd local...
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Weird Ontario Weather
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Filled with fascinating facts about the most extreme and curious weather stories in Ontario's history. This looks at the highs and lows of Ontario ...
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What is Canada?
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Test your knowledge on Canadian quotes, history, words, emblems, holidays, language, sports, geography and so much more: * In the language of the I...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wings Over the Sea
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...
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Wires in the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...
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With All Her Might
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...
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Yi Fao: Speaking Through Memory
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Bravo to the New Westminster Museum and Archives for their groundbreaking research into the history of Yi Fao, and for their understanding that the...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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