From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon—the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were...
History and geography
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Author:Mole, RichSummary: - Author:Cole, Clay, Hinckley, DavidSummary:
There was a small sliver of time between Be-Bop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock 'n' roll. Clay Cole was one of those teenagers he was the host of his own Saturday night, pop music television show. Clay Cole'...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests...
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
This colourful account of the Chilcotin War is an insightful and absorbing examination of an event that helped to shape the course of British Columbia history. In the spring of 1864, 14 men building a road along the Homathko River in...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and testing the strength of her rivets. Helpless until the tide changed and the ice moved,...
- Author:Vaillant, JohnSummary:
In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. The author braids together the strands of this mystery and...
- Author:Coates, Kenneth, Morrison, BillSummary:
In 1918, the steamer Princess Sophia left Alaska for Vancouver, but during a storm she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef - there were no survivors. Tracing the stories of many of the 353 aboard the Sophia - how they had gone to the north,...
- Author:Johnson, Peter WiltonSummary:
Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young women when they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862, through a jostling crowd of boisterous, eager men. The hardships and happiness of Louisa and Charlotte...
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For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history. In many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. Broadview's two-...
- Author:Hackett, F. J. PaulSummary:
The area between the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg, bounded on the north by the Hudson Bay lowlands, is sometimes known as the "Petit Nord." Providing a link between the cities of eastern Canada and the western interior, it was a...
- Author:Greenhous, BreretonSummary:
This is the story of a “no military risk” campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the...
- Author:Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden discusses the history of the Crusades as well as their legacy.
- Author:Starita, JoeSummary:
In 1877, Ponca Indians were forcibly relocated from Nebraska to Oklahoma. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear began a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his son to their traditional burial ground...
- Author:Menuhin, MosheSummary:
With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice. Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first...
- Author:Goodwin, JamesSummary:
During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr. George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats. Canadian warships like Ottawa had...
- Author:Huber, FlorianSummary:
By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left...
- Author:Lawlor, AllisonSummary:
On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the...
- Author:Kellogg, PaulSummary:
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the arctic settlement of Vorkuta was the site of a notorious Gulag that held former Trotsky followers and members of the Left Opposition. This coal-mining town was a witness, first to the last...
- Author:Lash, DonSummary:
In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to foster care and mandated services, arguing...
- Author:Newbold, L. Iris, Newbold, K. Bruce, Walters, Evelyn A., Walters, Mark G.Summary:
Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his...
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