The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalisminvestigates the groundbreaking inquiry launched to reconstruct the federal system - revealing its impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its...
History and geography
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Author:Ferguson, Barry, Wardhaugh, RobertSummary: - Author:Richardson, MattSummary:
If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again! Even Queen Victoria herself would be amused (not to mention astonished) by the hundreds of revelations to be found within The Royal Book...
- Author:Gervais, MartySummary:
An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no document before or after has managed....
- Author:Drape, JoeSummary:
This book chronicles the unlikely alliance between Father Hotze and Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, a country priest and a cosmopolitan Italian lawyer, as the two piece together the life of a long dead Korean War hero and military chaplain, and...
- Author:McKervill, Hugh W.Summary:
The Salmon People is a masterful history of Canada's west coast. From the first people's tales of salmon to BC's first cannery, to overfishing and the environmental concerns that still exist today, this comprehensive...
- Author:Chadwick, Andrew, McCowan, Bruce, McCowan, NancySummary:
This is a long-awaited history of one of Metro Toronto's most historic churches, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Scarborough, founded in 1818. This publication records the many memorable individuals to fill its pulpits and...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
Glengarry, Upper Canada’s first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to...
- Author:Paine, Lincoln P.Summary:
A retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures...
- Author:Suthren, VictorSummary:
Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the...
- Author:Esperon, Maria GarciaSummary:
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of...
- Author:Johnston, William, Rawling, William G.P., Gimblett, Richard H., MacFarlane, JohnSummary:
Commended for the 2011 Keith Matthews Award From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history...
- Author:Siegel, MattSummary:
Matt Siegel explores the historical, cultural, scientific, sexual, and, yes, culinary subcultures of the foods we know and love.
- Author:Cook, Tim.Summary:
There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of...
- Author:McKay, SinclairSummary:
A remarkable look at the day-to-day lives of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II.
- Author:Dion, Lise, Hawke, LiedewijSummary:
2014 Forest of Reading, White Pine Award — Winner, Nonfiction The true story of how a young Québécois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets. In this true story, Armande Martel, a...
- Author:Fraser, John, CMSummary:
Award-winning journalist, author, and royal authority John Fraser explores the endurance and allure of the Crown in Canada. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown's evolution from the Age of Deference to...
- Author:Jurmain, SuzanneSummary:
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
- Author:Block, TinaSummary:
The image of a rough frontier – where working men were tempted away from church on Sundays by more profane concerns – was perpetuated by postwar religious leaders troubled by the decline in church involvement. Tina Block debunks the...
- Author:Anderson, William, Wilder, Laura IngallsSummary:
These letters illuminate the revered American author's thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and relationships as never before, serving as a sequel to her beloved books and a snapshot of pioneer life.
- Author:Devine, Heather, Kostash, MyrnaSummary:
Myrna Kostash's follow up to The Frog Lake Reader is an engaging and exciting overview of the rivalry between fur trading companies in Nineteenth Century Canada.
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