Young readers learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Halloween.
History and geography
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Author:CapstoneSummary: - Author:Blanc, Paul Le.Summary:
In a blend of economic, social, and political history, P Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation's history. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of...
- Author:Ziegelman, JaneSummary:
The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the...
- Author:Meyler, David, Meyler, PeterSummary:
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years...
- Author:Graham, MarySummary:
Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last...
- Author:Cameron, ElspethSummary:
A Tale of Two Divas tells the story of two Canadian singers who began as soloists in church choirs, but eventually moved on to spectacular careers. Soprano Jean Forsyth and contralto Edith Miller knew each other well. They met when...
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A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba’s early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together fourteen pieces...
- Author:Wein, ElizabethSummary:
Early in World War II, Josef Stalin made the Soviet Union the first country to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments faced intense pressure and obstacles. Many were in their teens when they...
- Author:Bowker, AlanSummary:
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous...
- Author:Filey, MikeSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit A Toronto Album 2, companion edition to Mike Filey’s immensely popular original album, is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Among...
- Author:Filey, MikeSummary:
Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays...
- Author:Carr Jr, Thomas M.Summary:
Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who...
- Author:Vance, Jonathan F.Summary:
This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. Drawing from rich narrative sources, this work uses the local to understand the national, revealing what...
- Author:Walsh, KirbySummary:
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and professor at Harvard University, Moore...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired...
- Author:Kirkwood Walker, StephanieSummary:
Commended for the 2003 Honourable Mention for Superb Craftsmanship in Production The early settlers of Waterloo County - Mennonites, Germans, and Scots - built enterprising communities in a land of rivers, rolling hills, and fields....
- Author:Thompson, BrendaSummary:
A history of the poor house evolution in Nova Scotia, based on British Elizabethan Poor Laws. Includes profiles of the 32 government-sponsored poor houses built in the province between 1885 and 1972.
- Author:Hamilton, John David, Dickie, BonnieSummary:
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a...
- Author:Waiser, BillSummary:
Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of western Canada. It was a landscape...
- Author:Rogers, Edward S., Smith, Donald B.Summary:
Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First...
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