On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...
Railroads
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Author:Lawson, JulieSummary: -
Author:Trainer, Mary, Antonson, Brian, Antonson, Rick, Evans, DonSummary:Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia....
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Author:Gainer, TerrySummary:Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of...
- Author:Cooper, AndersonSummary:
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty-his mother's family, the...
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Author:Varro, Joe, Kerr, DonSummary:Tracks: The Art and Times of Switchman Joe, by Joe Varro celebrates Joe Varro's railway paintings, his bunkhouse sketches in pencil, prints, personal photographs, watercolors and paintings in oil and acrylic. This book is also a social...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
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The story of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis and their life in the country has never been out of print since it was first published in 1906. Charming, sentimental and unforgettable, the novel's enduring appeal lives on in this BBC radio...
- Author:Crosse, TaniaSummary:
August 1883. The future for Ling Southcott, a quarryman's daughter, seems to be already mapped. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Barney, a cluster of children, a life contained to the hamlet of Foggintor Quarry. For Ling, with her...
- Author:Theroux, PaulSummary:
"I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it," confesses the author. Take the train with him through Europe and Asia.
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Author:Lightfoot, Gordon, Wallace, IanSummary:This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot’s heart-stirring song, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada’s centennial year and it has been a classic...
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Author:Argyle, RaySummary:Edward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his...
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Hard-as-nails mountain man Smoke Jensen and his band of friends have ventured into the remote regions of the Canadian Rockies to protect railroaders from deadly bandits. Soon, they're headed down a one way track to an all-out shoot-out...
- Author:Williams, MauriceSummary:
The Kettle Valley Railway played a vital role in developing the southern interior of British Columbia. This is the story of the unnamed labourers who physically built this incredible railway line, working long hours for not much pay....
- Author:Colquhoun, KateSummary:
The fascinating story of the first ever railway murder
- Author:Smith, A. G., Livesey, RobertSummary:
Avant l’arrivée du chemin de fer, le Canada était un immense territoire accidenté ne comptant qu’une faible densité de population largement disséminée. Au fur et à mesure de la mise en place des voies ferrées entre l’Atlantique et le...
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Author:Hautman, PeteSummary:Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
- Author:Sembène, OusmaneSummary:
In 1947-8 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Sembène Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evinces all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years in the history of West Africa.
- Author:Sedgman, SamSummary:
From Adventures on Trains author and British Book Award 2021 winner Sam Sedgman comes a beautiful and fact-filled book encapsulating the excitement and wonder of adventure and travel - all seen through the world's most epic train...
- Author:Blanchet, PascalSummary:
En voiture! C’est l’expression utilisée par les conducteurs de train pour dire « Tous à bord, le train se met en route ». Ce livre vous emmènera de Montréal à Los Angeles en vous faisant découvrir les villes et paysages des grands...
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Author:Brown, RonSummary:Ron Brown is Canada's leading literary authority on the history of Canada's railroads, particularly those now lost branches from the golden age of steam that once ran like veins and arteries throughout the country. This special four-...
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