A century of dealmaking and government misdeeds forms the backdrop of this entertaining account of sternwheelers, iron horses and mountain roads. Battling factions of rail builders crossed many a line in the sand as they carved up both...
History and geography
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Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary: - Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
The history of British Columbia's transportation systems north of the Canadian National Railway's mainline may not be well known—but it certainly is colourful. Continuing the story he began in the first volume of Carving the Western...
- Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
The sparsely populated southern Interior of British Columbia was rich in resources and ripe for settlement in the late 1800s. The agricultural lands of the Okanagan and Nicola valleys, and the precious metals and coal of the Kootenays,...
- Author:Wilkerson, IsabelSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ; OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK ; LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ; “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New...
- Author:Horn, Bernd, Balasevicius, TonySummary:
Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada’s military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country’s history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist...
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
Super Explorers take you back in time to the medieval days when people lived in castles and knights roamed slaying dragons and rescuing beautiful maidens: - Castles were fortifications made of stone built in the Middle Ages to control...
- Author:Schmorleitz, Morton S.Summary:
Behind the glossy facade of modern Japan there survive remnants-some of them surprisingly well preserved-of the country's feudal past, of warlords and fighting samurai, of shoguns and sequestered emperors, of princes and peasants....
- Author:Scanlon, T. JosephSummary:
On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the worst man-made...
- Author:Massie, Robert K.Summary:
Biography of the minor German princess who was brought to Russia by Empress Elizabeth and became Catherine the Great (1729-1796). Details her marriage to Peter III and ascendance to the throne. Highlights Catherine's modernization and...
- Author:Knowlton, ChristopherSummary:
A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its...
- Author:Georgia, BraggSummary:
A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award-winning team that brought you How They Croaked and How They Choked.
Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy,...
- Author:Jensen, Kurt F.Summary:
Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada's contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as...
- Author:Hibbert, ChristopherSummary:
Presents a vivid, detailed narrative history of the English Civil War, 1642-1649.
- Author:S. Leach, Norman S., Melbourne, JohnSummary:
Many of the airmen of the First Word War who challenged both the enemy and death did not survive. These are their stories. In the clinging mud and trench warfare of WWI, it was soon clear that the cavalry — the elite of the elite —...
- Author:Galeano, EduardoSummary:
Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, CENTURY OF THE WIND serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey...
- Author:Gillies, JamesSummary:
The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN? In the late 1940s, a handful of...
- Author:Birmingham, StephenSummary:
The author of "Our Crowd" takes readers inside the gossip-tinged world of the 1970s Black elite, one obsessed with history, standing and appearance.
- Author:Webster, DavidSummary:
In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Windrecounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor...
- Author:Lux, Maureen, Dyck, ErikaSummary:
Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning...
- Author:Fryer, Mary BeacockSummary:
Samuel de Champlain has long been known as the founder of Quebec and as a tireless explorer. No one knows for sure where he was born or who he really was. Still, his career was packed with interesting details and his early life prepared...
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