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  • Finding Molly Johnson

    Irish Famine Orphans in Canada

    by Mark McGowan ...
    Series Book 100 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place. The story Canada likes to tell is that these orphans were adopted by benevolent families and that they readily adapted to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Finding Molly Johnson

    Irish Famine Orphans in Canada

    by Mark McGowan ...
    Series Book 100 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place. The story Canada likes to tell is that these orphans were adopted by benevolent families and that they readily adapted to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • English B for the IB Diploma

    by Hyun Jung Owen, Mark McGowan, Aaron Deupree ...
    Exam board: International BaccalaureateLevel: IB DiplomaSubject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2019First exams: Summer 2021Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated English B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students ... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Great War as I Saw It

    by Frederick Scott, Mark McGowan ...
    Series Book 230 - Carleton Library Series
    A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George Scott was an improbable volunteer, but also an invaluable war memoirist about life at the front. Enlisting at the very beginning of the conflict and serving on the Western Front until the Armistice, Scott became the most decorated Canadian chaplain. A High Anglican and staunch British imperialist ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Imperial Irish

    Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914-1918

    by Mark McGowan ...
    Series Book 78 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    Between 1914 and 1918, many Irish Catholics in Canada found themselves in a vulnerable position. Not only was the Great War slaughtering millions, but tension and violence was mounting in Ireland over the question of independence from Britain and Home Rule. For Canada’s Irish Catholics, thwarting Prussian militarism was a way to prove that small nations, like Ireland, could be free from larger ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • John A. Macdonald

    Canada's First Prime Minister

    by Ged Martin ...
    Series Book 35 - Quest Biography
    Shocked by Canada's 1837 rebellions, John A. Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his skills, and in 1867 he became the country's first prime minister.As "Sir John A.," he drove the Dominion's westward expansion, rapidly incorporating the ... Read more

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  • Now It Can Be Told

    by Philip Gibbs ...
    Series series World War Classics Presents
    Written by a British war correspondent who was present in and around the front lines of the western front for the entirety of WWI, the title refers to the fact that his writings here are published without the censorship that was in place during the war.An absolutely outstanding account of the realities of war in general, WWI trench warfare in particular, with appropriate commendation of the ... Read more

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  • Seeking a Better Future

    The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec

    by Lucille H. Campey ...
    Series Book 2 - The English in Canada
    The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey ... Read more

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  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    by William Cull, Aaron Pegram ...
    This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain William Cull fought the First World War from both sides of the wire. As a young infantry officer on the Allied side of the Western Front, Cull frequently led patrols out into No Man's Land and raids on ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • The Lost Prime Ministers

    Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

    by Michael Hill ...
    After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years.From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in ... Read more

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  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Major William Henry Lowe Watson D.S.O. D.C.M. ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Read more

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  • A Company of Tanks

    Enriched edition.

    by William Henry Lowe Watson, Cara Whitlock ...
    In "A Company of Tanks," William Henry Lowe Watson presents a poignant exploration of mechanized warfare during World War I, encapsulated in a narrative that is both gripping and detail-oriented. Watson's literary style is characterized by vivid descriptions and a focus on the psychological impacts of combat, often juxtaposing the raw power of tanks with the fragility of human life. The work is ... Read more

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