Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug...
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Author: Sarty, Roger, Knight, DougSummary:
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Author: Mechefske, LindySummary:
Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime...
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Author: Komar, DebraSummary:
Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction. Is it possible to reach back in time and solve...
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Author: Campbell, GarySummary:
Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now...
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Author: Johns, LindaSummary:
Winner, Evelyn Richardson Memorial Prize for Non-Fiction. Well-known naturalist and artist Linda Johns shares her woodland home with a menagerie of injured wild birds — starlings, blue jays,...
Genre: Anecdotes, Canadian nonfiction, Math and science -
Author: Komar, DebraSummary:
Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award. In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly...
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Author: Dohaney, Myrtis T.Summary:
A Fit Month for Dying is the third book in M.T. Dohaney's highly praised trilogy about the women of Newfoundland's outports. Fans of The Corrigan Women and To Scatter Stones will embrace...
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Author: Ryan, GarrySummary:
With the traumatic events of Foxed behind him, Detective Lane has been promoted to the head of the Calgary Major Crimes Unit, a position that brings new responsibilities, as well as a new partner...
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Author: Hunt, RobertSummary:
In this final instalment of Robert Hunt’s memoirs, we return to the alleys and street corners of St. John’s in the 1950s and 1960s. Baby boomers coming of age in this growing city often faced...
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Author: Wyndham, JohnSummary:
John Wyndham's classic tale of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster comes alive in this full-cast BBC radio dramatisation. At first, the fireballs seemed to be...
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Author: Lucht, BernieSummary:
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues— most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some...
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Author: Kert, FayeSummary:
The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint...
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Author: Nesbitt, John D.Summary:
When Lane, an office clerk, falls in love with the wife of a powerful land developer, their affair is soon discovered. But instead of facing her husband in a showdown, Lane moves to a remote ranch...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: Eso, David, Lynes, JeanetteSummary:
Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets,...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Discursive works, Poetry -
Author: Toner, PatrickSummary:
At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canada and in the US as well. If I Could Turn and Meet...