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As She Began

Bruce Wilson

As She Began

As She Began , an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to the most crucial period in Ontario’s history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land between the lakes, giving Ontario its geographic shape and political destiny. Concentrating on the personal and social aspect of the loyalist migration, Bruce Wilson looks at the origins, the background, the motives, and the later successes of the men and women who...

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Bruce Wilson

Leaside

Jane Pitfield

Leaside

Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community. Named after John Lea, a successful farmer, whose house, built in 1829, is believed to be the first brick house in York County, Leaside grew from a railway settlement into a prosperous urban town. With its roots embedded in the history of three railways, Leaside has a unique industrial heritage that played a key role in the war effort...

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Jane Pitfield

Samuel de Champlain

Francine Legaré

Samuel de Champlain

A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, by continuing further to the West. But the land called New France – a harsh land from India – was his greatest love. He defended it fiercely to those in power in France and was responsible for its development. Champlain thus ensured the birth of the country that today is Canada. He is undisputedly...

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Francine Legaré

Churches of Nova Scotia

Robert Tuck

Churches of Nova Scotia

Churches of Nova Scotia is as much a human interest book as it is about ecclesiastical buildings. Both text and photographs tell the story of more than 30 Nova Scotia churches, but in the telling, the relationship between the interior life and history of the churches and the exterior and architecture of the church buildings is explored. The book is well balanced, containing a selection of churches from all parts of the province and representing a variety of denominational and ethnic identities,...

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Robert Tuck

A Winnipeg Album

John David Hamilton

A Winnipeg Album

Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then had a university, newspapers, publishing firms, a major theatre, and a vibrant mass of immigrants who flooded in to open up the West. Growing Winnipeg was served with paddle-wheelers on the Red...

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John David Hamilton

Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry

Patricia Skidmore

Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry

When Marjorie’s daughter began exploring archival records involving Britain’s child-migration program, a home-child saga emerged. Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide «white stock» and cheap labour. In Marjorie’s case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1937. As a child, Patricia was angered that her...

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Patricia Skidmore

A Scandinavian Heritage

Joan Magee

A Scandinavian Heritage

The Scandinavian presence has been felt in many parts of Canada, including the Windsor-Detroit border region. A Scandinavian Heritage surveys the numerous conributions made in this area by the people of 5 nations: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The history of these people, from the first settlers to the present is explored in detail. The experiences common to each of the nationalities are shown and contrasted to the unique perspective brought by each group to this country....

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Joan Magee

On Common Ground

Richard D. Merritt

On Common Ground

This tract of land in Niagara-on-the-Lake has witnessed an amazing cavalcade of Canadian history. For 250 years a large tract of oak savannah at the mouth of the Niagara River designated as a Military Reserve has witnessed a rich military and political history: the site of the first parliament of Upper Canada; a battleground during the War of 1812; and annual summer militia camps and the training camp for tens of thousands of men and women during the First and Second World Wars. In the midst of...

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Richard D. Merritt

Fragments of War

Joyce Hibbert

Fragments of War

The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many private photographs from their own...

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Joyce Hibbert

Toronto Sketches 11

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 11

Mike Filey brings Toronto’s history and the stories of its people and places to life. Mike Filey’s column «The Way We Were» first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: «The Way We Were.» Since then another nine...

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Mike Filey

I am heartily ashamed

Gavin K. Watt

I am heartily ashamed

The second installment in Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary War trilogy, I am heartily ashamed picks up where A dirty, trifling piece of business leaves off. It's a new year with new challenges. An incredibly fierce Canadian winter was endured before raiding was resumed against the enemy's frontiers. The rebels' Mohawk region defence soon fell into disarray when two colonels jousted for control. Continued negotiations encouraged Vermont to not support the rebellion and the...

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Gavin K. Watt

River Rough, River Smooth

Anthony Dalton

River Rough, River Smooth

Manitoba’s Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river in Manitoba, served as the highway for settlers bound for the Red River colony, ferrying their worldly goods in York boats and canoes, struggling against the mighty currents. Traditionally used for...

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Anthony Dalton

Emancipation Day

Natasha L. Henry

Emancipation Day

When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans could live unfettered live in Canada – a reality worthy of celebration. This new, well-researched book provides insight into the creation, development, and evolution of a distinct African-Canadian...

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Natasha L. Henry

The St. Petersburg Connection

Alexis S. Troubetzkoy

The St. Petersburg Connection

A history of Russian-American relations from 1776 to 1917, when these two states, mostly antagonists since, were warm friends. A compelling account of Russian-American relations from the American Revolution of 1776 to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Long before the Cold War, there was a seemingly unlikely connection between the two countries – one a champion of liberty and progress; the other an absolute monarchy and defender of tradition. Indeed, following Russia’s refusal to help...

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Alexis S. Troubetzkoy

Toronto Sketches 12

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 12

Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, its people and places, to life. Mike Filey’s column “The Way We Were” first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the paper’s first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has had an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992, a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: “The Way We Were.” Since then another eleven volumes have...

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Mike Filey

The Canadian Honours System

Christopher McCreery

The Canadian Honours System

This updated, full-colour illustrated book recounts the history of Canada’s various national orders, decorations, and medals. This expanded and updated edition of The Canadian Honours System surveys the history of Canada’s various orders, decorations, and medals, from New France’s Croix de St. Louis, Britain’s the Order of the Bath, to modern Canadian honours such as the Sacrifice Medal and recently created Polar Medal. Since the establishment of the Order of Canada in 1967, the Canadian...

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Christopher McCreery

Behind the Glory

Ted Barris

Behind the Glory

In this 60th anniversary edition is Ted Barris’ telling of the unique story of Canada’s largest World War II expenditure – $1.75 billion in a Commonwealth-wide training scheme, based in Canada that supplied the Allied air war with nearly a quarter of a million qualified airmen. Within its five-year life-span, the BCATP supplied a continuous flow of battle-ready pilots, navigators, wireless radio operators, air gunners, flight engineers, riggers and fitters or more commonly known as ground crew,...

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Ted Barris

The Surplus Woman

Catherine L. Dollard

The Surplus Woman

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived...

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Catherine L. Dollard

Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Cr...

Thomas J. Schaeper

Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other...

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Thomas J. Schaeper

Staging Citizenship

Ioana Szeman

Staging Citizenship

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on “performance” broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental...

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Ioana Szeman

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal...

Jane MacLaren Walsh

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations...

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Jane MacLaren Walsh

Lunatycy

Christopher Clark

Lunatycy

„Wybuch wojny w 1914 roku to nie kryminał Agathy Christie, w którym na końcu odkryjemy winnego stojącego nad zwłokami w oranżerii z dymiącym pistoletem. W tej opowieści nie ma żadnego dymiącego pistoletu; czy też raczej każda z głównych postaci trzyma w rękach po jednym z nich. Widziany w tym świetle wybuch tamtej wojny był tragedią, a nie zbrodnią. Uznanie tego faktu nie oznacza, że powinniśmy pomniejszać wojowniczość i imperialistyczną paranoję austriackich oraz niemieckich decydentów, które...

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Christopher Clark

Spit and Passion

Cristy C. Road

Spit and Passion

"Cristy C. Road is a bad ass. She has a list of published work that leaves me awed and inspired."—Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day «Road's writing has long brought to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker.»—Bitch magazine At its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is struggling to balance...

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Cristy C. Road

Von Ratlosen und Löwenherzen - Eine...

Ксюша Ангел

Von Ratlosen und Löwenherzen - Eine kurzweilige, aber nützliche Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters

Eine kurzweilige, aber nützliche Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters In ihrem ersten Sachbuch erzählt uns die Bestsellerautorin Rebecca Gablé die Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters neu: kompetent und informativ, mitreißend wie ein Roman. Lesen Sie, wie die Wikinger in Ermangelung anderer Freizeitaktivitäten England eroberten. Erleben Sie wie Eleanor von Aquitanien die Bühne betritt, eine der «unterhaltsamsten und wunderbarsten Skandalnudeln, die je auf Englands Thron gesessen haben».

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