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  • The Czechs and Slovaks in Canada

    de John Gellner, John Smerek ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addressed both to Canadian-Canadians and to Czech-and-Slovak Canadians (if there is such a distinction)." The latter will learn from it who their fellow citizens of similar origin are, where they came from, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Our Life on Lear's Room Labrador

    de Greta Hussey ...
    “Because of the scarcity of cod in Conception Bay in the early 1920s, my father decided to go to the Labrador coast and try his luck as hundreds of others were doing. He went as a skipper with his own fishing crew. Mother used to go along to save the expense of a cook so, at an early age I was taken along with the family. By the time I was married, I had spent sixteen summers on the coast. Fifteen ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Great Canadian Love Stories

    Romances, Affairs, and Passionate Tales

    de Cheryl MacDonald ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    From the Irish princess, taken prisoner by pirates, who fell in love with one of her captors and settled in Newfoundland, to the ardent courtship of Alexander Graham Bell and his bride-to-be, Mabel, this book celebrates the passion, the pain, and the romance of Canadian lovers through the ages. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson

    The Life Story of Olaf Hanson

    de A.L. Karras, Olaf Hanson ...
    From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, natural history of the region as well ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • A Good Day's Work

    In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada

    de John Demont ...
    A Good Day's Work is a lyrical journey through a semi-mythological place: the Canada of our imagination. It is the Canada of the day before yesterday. Or perhaps the Canada of 1967 -- the country's "Last Good Year," as Pierre Berton dubbed it. It is a portrait of Canada captured by way of encounters with a blacksmith, a cowgirl, a milkman, a traveling salesman and other custodians of trades from ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edición de Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Don

    An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley

    de Jennifer L. Bonnell ...
    A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s. Demonstrating how mosquito ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Rig

    An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster

    de Mike Heffernan ...
    Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster, a collection of first-person accounts and previously unpublished photographs, describes events as they unfolded from those most greatly affected-victims' families, former rig workers, emergency responders and government officials. It is an intimate journey through grief and sadness and the search for meaning in the most devasting of tragedies. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Back To Hope

    de Deirdre Santesso ...
    Seventeen year-old Larry Kinsella knows nothing of life beyond the city of Vancouver and when he first meets Benita Pigeon, a member of the Carrier Nation, he is drawn to her by their differences. Their brief, often tumultuous, relationship is brought to a calamitous end by an unwanted pregnancy and by Larry’s response to it. Consumed by anger and bitterness, Benita flees to her ancestral home ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Big Nickel: The Untold Story

    How Sudbury's Ted Szilva Turned a Five Cent Coin Into $1 million

    de Jim Szilva, Ted Szilva ...
    The Big Nickel. For 50 years it’s been one of Canada’s most recognizable landmarks. Finally, the complete story you’ve always wanted to know is ready to be told. Straight from the man who started it all, Ted Szilva shares his most intimate and personal details about how this incredible monument came to be. He’s been referred to as “the imagination, the driving force, the builder and the promoter ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Voyageur Canadian History 2-Book Bundle

    The Refugee / The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

    de Benjamin Drew ...
    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Rural Majority

    Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940

    de R.W. Sandwell ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, isolated households ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD