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  • A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North

    Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939

    Series Libro 17 - Northern Lights
    Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s Arctic Claims” remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter “Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem,” in R. St. J. ... Leer más

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    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Leer más

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  • Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry

    A Home Child Experience

    Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1937. As a child, Patricia was angered that her mother wouldn't talk about the ... Leer más

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  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

    de Kerry Karram ...
    With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous conditions.On December 21, 1910, a four-man patrol left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, ... Leer más

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  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Leer más

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  • Murder on the Rock

    True Crime in Newfoundland and Labrador

    The story of Newfoundland and Labrador is a long and bloody one. In Murder on the Rock, Robert C. Parsons describes some of the most horrific and puzzling crimes and shenanigans that have happened in this province. With tales of kidnappers, cold-blooded murderers, cannibals, and more, these fifty-nine stories of crime and punishment cover the 1700s to present day. Included are: Death at Saint ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of the Pole

    An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912

    de S.L. Osborne ...
    In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada.In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history of how the Arctic became part of Canada and how the Dominion government established jurisdiction there. It describes the early expeditions to Canada’s North, including the little-known Dominion government expeditions to the Subarctic and Arctic carried out between 1884 and 1912. ... Leer más

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  • Polar Winds

    A Century of Flying the North

    Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond."They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own — were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their wits."Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways ... Leer más

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  • The Lost Lemon Mine

    An Unsolved Mystery of the Old West

    de Ron Stewart ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors named Lemon and Blackjack found gold in the rugged mountains of southwestern Alberta or southeastern British Columbia. Shortly after, Blackjack died at Lemon`s hand. The distraught Lemon left the scene of the murder and never recovered his senses—or his ... Leer más

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  • Fire Canoe

    Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

    de Ted Barris ...
    The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie waterways. Their operators were businessmen hoping to reap the benefits of commercial enterprise along ... Leer más

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  • Sudbury

    Rail Town to Regional Capital

    de C.M. Wallace ...
    At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now, nearly 100 years later, Sudbury is the largest city in northeastern Ontario. it is also the centre of many governmental, business, social, educational, media, medical, and ... Leer más

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  • Roald Amundsen's "The North-West Passage": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa," 1903-1907. Volume 1.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
 Elibron Classics. Replica of 1908 edition by Archibald Constable & Company Limited, London.
Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
By Roald Amundsen, with a Supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, Vice-commander of the Expedition. With about one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations and three maps.
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