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 New Brunswick. Aboriginal people used this...
Roads
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Author:Campbell, GarySummary: -
Author:Cannings, Richard, Cannings, SydneySummary:Discover a whole new dimension to taking a car trip with this fascinating guide to the roadside ecology of the major highways in British Columbia. Each of the 13 chapters covers one highway in the province. Beginning with an overview of...
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:Soderstrom documents how routes of migration and transport have transformed both humanity and our planet. Begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road...
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A documentary film crew in Siberia encounters otherworldly beasts and inexplicable phenomena along a highway built over a massive graveyard, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them.
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Author:Wooldridge, Connie NordhielmSummary:Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.
- Author:Stevens, ChevySummary:
"Chevy Stevens is a brilliant and unique talent and Dark Roads is an instant classic. My hat's off to her." - C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Range. Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles...
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Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary: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...
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Author:Bradley, BenSummary:In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys...
