The Trans-Canada, the world’s longest national highway, comes to life in words and pictures. Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway...
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Author: Richardson, MarkSummary:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Travel writing
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Author: Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Carr, EmilySummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early...
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Author: Freeman, VictoriaSummary:
Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was...
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Author: Taylor, Robert RatcliffeSummary:
Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author...
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Author: Paetkau, JeanSummary:
The picturesque breakwater extending from the shores of Victoria attracts tourists, locals and now a murderer. Journalist Helene Unger takes daily walks on the historic edifice as a way to beat...
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Author: Citra, BeckySummary:
It's 1908, and 16-year-old Charlotte O'Dell is forced to move away from her great Aunt Ginny in Victoria, and live and work at the St. Alice Hotel in order to make enough money to finish...
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Author: James, VictoriaSummary:
An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, the age when most people are...
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Author: Preston, DaveSummary:
How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden? Over 100 years later, Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from...
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Author: Evelina, NicoleSummary:
Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books.Rising...
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Author: RENNIE, AnneSummary:
A story of a love that legends are made of.
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Author: McFadden, FreidaSummary:
Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect--or so it...
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Author: Molony, JohnSummary:
Historian John Molony here reveals the circumstance and details of the life and death of Ned Kelly, attempting to establish why Kelly became so important in the history of Australia. 'Mind...
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Author: Godfrey, RebeccaSummary:
The murder of Reena Virk is one of the most notorious - and heartbreaking - cases in Canadian history. Who were the seemingly ordinary suburban teenagers who found themselves under the bridge on...
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Author: Morris, JamesSummary:
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Author: Evans, StanSummary:
Book Five of the Silas Seaweed mysteries.
Silas Seaweed is back on the beat as the street-smart Coast Salish cop. A gardener is found dead and the prime suspects are two young local party...