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Author:Peters, KatieSummary: - Author:Pitt, SteveSummary:
Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a black staff car, the...
- Author:Backhouse, ConstanceSummary:
Malgré l'ouverture proclamée des Canadiens face à la diversité ethnique et culturelle, l'histoire canadienne n'en est pas moins marquée par la discrimination systématique. Cet ouvrage expose la ténacité juridique de cette...
- Author:Barnes, TrevorSummary:
Based on newly-released archival material and inside sources from around the world, this book follows the hunt for the highly damaging Portland Spy Ring. The narrative, layered with false identities, deceptions, and betrayal,...
- Author:Jenner, GregSummary:
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron,...
- Author:MacKinnon, J.B.Summary:
On June 22, 1965, a soldier in the Dominican Republic reported that he had just shot two policemen and an outspoken Canadian priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that compels the author to visit the island nation for himself,...
- Author:Geiger, John, Beattie, OwenSummary:
In 1719, James Knight set out with two ships and 40 men to find the north-west passage, never to be seen again. This book records the authors' search for the truth behind their disappearance, using historical clues, archaeological...
- Author:Larson, ErikSummary:
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were...
- Author:Brown, Yvonne ShorterSummary:
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal...
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
Best-selling chronicler of the gold rush Bill Gallaher now brings us the compelling story of the Rennie brothers. Lured by dreams of wealth and a better life, William, Gilbert and Thomas Rennie set out for the Cariboo goldfields in the...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the...
- Author:Brode, PatrickSummary:
A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto’s prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city’s most prominent families. This...
- Author:Hornbaker, TimSummary:
For decades, distinct professional wrestling territories thrived across North America. Each regionally based promotion operated individually and offered a brand of localized wrestling that greatly appealed to area fans. Promoters...
- Author:Karram, KerrySummary:
A harrowing tale of human intelligence pitted against the forces of nature. With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain...
- Author:Robinson, Helen CaisterSummary:
Decades of Caring: The Big Sister Story is a record of the trials, errors, and accomplishments of an organization of Toronto women who have carried a torch for youth through good years and bad from 1912 to the present time. The author...
- Author:Levy, Adrian, Scott-Clark, CatherineSummary:
An exposé of A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani scientist who in 1975 stole blueprints for a nuclear bomb arming device, describes how nuclear secrets have been sold to Iran, North Korea, and others by an illicit Pakistani military program, with...
- Author:Holzman, Morey, Nieforth, JosephSummary:
Hockey lovers will be fascinated by the truth about how the National Hockey League was founded and how, through less than savory means, it captured permanent possession of the Stanley Cup. Deceptions and Doublecross begins with the 1917...
- Author:Collier, James Lincoln, Collier, ChristopherSummary:
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor.
- Author:White, Nicolas J.Summary:
This updated Seminar Studies volume provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British empire has, of course, been one of the central features of postwar international history. At the end of the...
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