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  • David Thompson

    by Tom Shardlow ...
    Series Book 17 - Quest Biography
    Across North America in 2007-2009, communities will celebrate the David Thompson Bicentennials. For 34 years the great explorer, surveyor, and fur trader travelled across the continent, finding and mapping the routes between the St. Lawrence and the Pacific. Trusting the stars and his sextant, he surveyed a continental area so vast it remains a mapping achievement unequalled in human history. This ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Adventurers and Explorers 5-Book Bundle

    David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday

    by D.T. Lahey, Tom Henighan, Tom Shardlow, Kathryn Bridge, Francine Legaré ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped Canada’s geography are: the French founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; surveyor David Thompson; Arctic explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson; legendary Upper Canada ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Wilderness

    The Story of David Thompson

    by Tom Shardlow ...
    Series Book 9 - Stories of Canada
    David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudsons Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

    William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

    by lian goodall, Marguerite Paulin, Francine Legaré, Gary Evans, Deborah Cowley, Tom Shardlow, Heather Kirk, Anne Cimon, André Vanasse ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, Nora Alleyn ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential politicians Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Premiers René Lévesque and Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorers Samuel de Champlain and David Thompson; National Film Board founder John Grierson; medical humanitarian Lucille ... Read more

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 16–20

    Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

    by Marguerite Paulin, Tom Shardlow, Heather Kirk, Anne Cimon, André Vanasse ...
    Translated by Nora Alleyn ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorer of Western Canada, David Thompson; the author of the Jalna novels, Mazo de la Roche; wilderness chronicler Susanna Moodie; and award-winning novelist Gabrielle Roy.IncludesMaurice ... Read more

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  • Strange Days: Amazing Stories from Canada's Wildest Decade

    by Ted Ferguson ...
    The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history a time of frivolous fads shocking crimes and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the '20s tales of serial killers athletes con men crackpots prime ministers ... Read more

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  • The Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet

    Intrepid Surveyor, 1884-1966

    by Gwyneth Hoyle ...
    The working life of the distinguished surveyor Guy Blanchet reflects the story of northern Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning his career in the boreal forests of Alberta and Saskatchewan, using pack horses and dog teams, Blanchet went north to map large areas of the Barrens by canoe, and soon became caught up in pioneer northern aviation. His story encompasses the Great ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Canada

    Sixth Edition

    by Desmond Morton ...
    Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history.Morton ... Read more

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  • Canada's Rumrunners

    Incredible Adventures and Exploits During Canada's Illicit Liquor Trade

    by Art Montague ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "...despite flying bullets and cannon shots, Ben had his crew hastily tossing evidence over the side of the boat. Bullet-riddled, the Maritimas finally came to a stop, but even then, the crew continued to throw the beer overboard." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: the history of crime or prohibition. It is safe to say that America would have been a much drier ... Read more

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    by Dave Eggers ...
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  • The Story of Sacajawea

    Guide to Lewis and Clark

    by Della Rowland ...
    As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree warriors and taken to be their slave. Several years later, she was bought by a French fur trader to be his wife. Then, in 1804, when she was only sixteen years old, Sacajawea met Lewis and Clark.Carrying her infant son on her back, Sacajawea helped guide the famous team of explorers through the ... Read more

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