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  • A Calgary Album

    Glimpses of the Way We Were

    Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was best left to the trapper and trader.Nurtured by a sense of vision and the sweat of good old-fashioned hard work, Calgary grew, and has now blossomed into a world ... Leer más

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  • Up Ghost River

    A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

    A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St. Anne’s, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that ... Leer más

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  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    de John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... Leer más

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  • Canyons of the Colorado

    Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
    John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey ... Leer más

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  • The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City

    The Meeting That Made Canada

    Series series History of Canada
    In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent ... Leer más

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  • The Lake Erie Shore

    Ontario's Forgotten South Coast

    de Ron Brown ...
    The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Much of the area's natural features - the wetlands, the Carolinian forests - and its built heritage - fishing ports and military ramparts - provide much of interest for vistors to the region.Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coast line in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories ... Leer más

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  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over the last half-century evolves. From the Charter of Freedoms to life and death matters such as ... Leer más

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  • My Brother's Keeper

    African Canadians and the American Civil War

    de Bryan Prince ...
    The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with their American fellows in silent vigils to await the enactment of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The terms declared that slaves who were held in the ... Leer más

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  • Voices of the Left Behind

    Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

    Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of National Defence, Veterans Affairs, and other Canadian institutions. Letters from the war children to ... Leer más

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  • Strange Events of Ontario

    Chilling Tales of Phantoms, Curses and Hauntings

    Series series Amazing Stories
    Mythological sea monsters lurking in the depths of Lake Simcoe, a fair-haired Sasquatch combing the isolated stretches of northern highways, and the mournful "Maid of the Mist" of Niagara Falls are just some of the mysterious stories of Ontario found in this collection. Read up on the eerie events of Ontario's history that will challenge reason and provoke curiosity. Do you believe? ... Leer más

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  • Dreams and Due Diligence

    Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy

    In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive generations of researchers who have used their findings to make huge advances against disease. ... Leer más

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  • Hudson Bay Watershed

    A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree

    de John Macfie ...
    At the midpoint of the twentieth century, the First Nations people of Ontario’s underdeveloped hinterland lived primarily from the land. They congregated in summer in defined communities but in early autumn dispersed to winter camps to hunt, fish, and trap. Increasingly, however, they found they had to adapt to a different way of life, one closer to the Canadian mainstream. While lifestyles and ... Leer más

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