From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of...
History and geography
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Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary: - Author:Kahan, Fannie, Dyck, Erika, Hoffer, Abram, Blewett, Duncan, Osmond, Humphry, Weckowicz, TeodoroSummary:
In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native...
- Author:Lister, KateSummary:
The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only...
- Author:Gordon, KatherineSummary:
The remarkable story of Princess Peggy Abkhazi, co-founder of the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria, B.C. Adopted by a wealthy English taipan and his wife, she studied in Paris, lived in Shanghai in the racy 1930's, but also experienced the...
- Author:Thrall, NathanSummary:
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited...
- Author:Boissery, BeverleySummary:
In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion. Even though they were all civilians, they had been tried...
- Author:Takaki, Ronald T.Summary:
A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America's racial and cultural diversity.
- Author:Blanchard, JimSummary:
The third instalment in Jim Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, "A Diminished Roar" presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its...
- Author:Greer, BillSummary:
Topics in the news as 1872 opened were rigged elections, shootings, attacks on the press, sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, and the chasm between rich and poor, issues that still resonate.
- Author:Watt, Gavin K., Morrison, James F., Smy, William A.Summary:
By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada’s governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown’s largest...
- Author:Zubok, V. M.Summary:
Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues the author. Explaining the interests, aspirations illusions, fears, and...
- Author:Clark, GregorySummary:
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution - and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it - occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other...
- Author:Southon, EmmaSummary:
Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome's darkly fascinating...
- Author:Simpson-Housley, Paul, Norcliffe, Glen B.Summary:
In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators. Canada was perceived and portrayed as a...
- Author:Hartfield, ClaireSummary:
On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the...
- Author:Lawson, JosephSummary:
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first...
- Author:Parkin, SimonSummary:
By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised to reveal the tactics behind the vicious success of the German U-boats. Through...
- Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary:
A Gentleman of Substance covers the remarkable life of John Redpath. Born to humble circumstances in Scotland in 1796, he emigrated to Canada in 1816 to become a stonemason in Montreal. By 1818 he had his own building and contracting...
- Author:Savage, CandaceSummary:
A bestselling author embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan.
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea... - Author:Ingstad, BenedicteSummary:
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand...
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