Beginning in Canada's earliest days, our ancestors were required to perform some form of military service, often as militia. The discovery that an ancestor served during one of the major conflicts in our history is exciting. When you...
History and geography
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Author:Cox, Kenneth G.Summary: - Author:Coates, Ken S., Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Morrion, William R., Poelzer, GregSummary:
A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada's longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
"Never talked about it." That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences. Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even...
- 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:Green, BobSummary:
Eavesdroppings recounts life in the small towns of Ontario before sin arrived on the Internet—a time when churches were never locked and parents, not wishing to be disturbed while they listened to the radio, shooed their children out to...
- Author:Lahey, D. T.Summary:
Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson...
- Author:Lacey, RobertSummary:
Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/?11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by...
- Author:Humber, Darryl, Humber, WilliamSummary:
Winter has shaped Canada's image and has been embraced with hearty enthusiasm from snowshoeing hikers in the 19th century, to future hockey stars on backyard rinks, to the indoor spectacle of figure-skating carnivals and curling...
- Author:GILL, AlanSummary:
Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration scheme. Its aim was simply to fill Australia's empty space with young people of white, essentially Angol-Saxon stock. This book tells their collective...
- Author:Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:
Limited time offer. A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership. Several...
- Author:Kerkhoff, BlairSummary:
Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen overcame the argument of James Naismith, inventor of the game, that basketball didn't need a coach. Allen served (for a while under Naismith) at the University of Kansas as coach from 1907 to 1909 and from 1919...
- Author:Shadd, AdrienneSummary:
When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian but for all African Canadians. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway looks at the history of blacks in the Ancaster-Burlington-...
- Author:Fields, Darrell, Fields, LorrieSummary:
So Brilliant was William Penn's American Legacy that Thomas Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence, called him, "the greatest lawgiver the world has produced." And brilliant he was...not only because Penn's Charter of...
- Author:Bonner, Wilma F., Freelain, Sandra E., Henderson, Dwight D., Love, Johnnieque B., Williams, Eugene M.Summary:
For the first three quarters of the twentieth century, in the heart of our nation, there thrived a safe haven which nurtured great aspirations of thousands of African American youth and their families. The Sumner Story highlights the...
- Author:Kloeber, LeonardSummary:
Colonel Kloeber uses his extensive experience from a 30-year career in the military and as a corporate executive to relate the lessons learned from military history to contemporary business and personal leadership.
- Author:Duder, CameronSummary:
The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
- Author:Bridge, Kathryn AnneSummary:
Four nineteenth century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge looks at each of these pioneering women,...
- Author:Cross, L.D.Summary:
They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold, snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen...
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgettable, strong-willed women defied the social conventions of the time and endured...
- Author:Sarty, Roger, Knight, DougSummary:
Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's...
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