Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like...
History and geography
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Author:Grainger, JenniferSummary: - Author:Grainger, JenniferSummary:
Once home to over 60 flourishing villages, Middlesex County, in the heart of southwestern Ontario, has a rich history just waiting to be discovered. Anthropologist and local history enthusiast Jennifer Grainger has, through extensive...
- Author:Kluckner, MichaelSummary:
The old buildings and historic places of B.C. form a "roadside memory", a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. This book is a record of these places and the...
- Author:Popoff, AlexandraSummary:
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the...
- Author:Attridge, Michael, Clifford, Catherine E., Routhier, GillesSummary:
Le deuxième concile du Vatican (1961-1965) fut l’un des événements religieux les plus importants du vingtième siècle. Au Canada, il coïncida avec une période de changements culturels et sociétaux sans précédent, entraînant...
- Author:Marrin, AlbertSummary:
From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic-and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World...
- Author:Ruiz, AnaSummary:
Almost a thousand years ago, when most of Europe was just edging out of the Dark Ages, the South of Spain was a brilliant center of world culture, a site of splendor and a magnet for the talented and ambitious from all around the...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
National Bestseller At the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the...
- Author:Strausbaugh, JohnSummary:
While World War II launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and saw the rise and fall of global fascism, New York City emerged as the new capital of the world. John Strausbaugh tells the story of New York City's war...
- Author:Cook, TimSummary:
Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s...
- Author:Barton, Peter, Banning, JeremySummary:
In April 1917, Allied guns pounded German positions near Arras with almost three million shells. During the early stages of the succeeding offensive, British and Canadian troops achieved unprecedented advances, capturing a huge swathe...
- Author:Robson, Wanda, Reynolds, GrahamSummary:
For many Canadians, the first introduction to Viola Desmond will have been was seeing her portrait on the new $10 banknote. Those who are familiar with her life Others know that she was wrongfully arrested in 1946 for refusing to give...
- Author:Reynolds, GrahamSummary:
In 1946, a Black Halifax businesswoman, Viola Desmond, was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a white's-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, sixty-four years later, the Nova Scotia government...
- Author:Cayli, BarisSummary:
How do militants rationalize violence and what are their motives? How do time and space shape their destiny? In Violence and Militants Baris Cayli explores these enduring questions by comparing violent episodes in towns and villages in...
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the...
- Author:Peers, Laura, Brown, Alison K.Summary:
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not...
- Author:Drabek, JanSummary:
In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those...
- Author:Posluns, Michael, Seeger, PeteSummary:
On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange...
- Author:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
The Skeena, second longest river in the province, remains an icon of British Columbia's northwest. Called Xsien ("water of the clouds") by the Tsimshian and Gitksan, it has always played a vital role in the lives of Indigenous people of...
- Author:Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, HowardSummary:
Here are selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems, songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. New voices featured in this tenth...
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