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For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800...

Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this...

This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772034752Author Blair MirauFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd

Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America,...

Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the...

The bestselling author of Good Girls Die First is back with an entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting new thriller. Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you to death! Have you got what...

In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE...

THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to order this now' RedLonglisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for...

One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001.When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307401342Author Greg MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 317g

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Taxation, and for professional use. Get clarity on UK taxation rules and policies in this up-to-date guide for year 2021 Taxation, 27th Edition, by Alan Melville, updated with 2021's...

UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock...

In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest...

From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried and failed to unlock its secrets. An investigation...

"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300764Author Elizabeth McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 268g

One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history. Second to None tells the story of this important, yet forgotten, battalion. The soldiers who...

When the white settlers came to western Canada, Big Bear realized that the Cree Indians' way of life was threatened, and he fought to prevent his people from being reduced to poverty-stricken outcasts in their own land. Although his protests were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920663790Author Peter JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Horsdal & Schubart PublishersPublisher Horsdal & Schubart PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164687Author John GrenierFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014! 2014 (Canada) and George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2014), Winner 2014 (Canada)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869691Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books

Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario’s cottage country.Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground — all serve as haunting reminders of once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968195505Author Graham WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Whitecap BooksPublisher Whitecap Books LimitedWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895811162Author Beth DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is...

One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Centuryseparated from his family, community, and languagefinding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961217669Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 159g

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin, discovered by the Canadian research team of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425273548Author Logan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

Canada's history, eminent historian Robert Bothwell argues, is more than simply regional or national. In some respects, Canada makes most sense when viewed from the outside in, and in "The Penguin History of Canada" we are invited to do just that. The...

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393425Author Robert ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Inuit have among the highest suicide rates in the world - ten times the national average. Inuit narratives of suicide provide clues as to what can and in some cases has been done to combat the problem, but until recently they have not circulated far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781337165Author Chris BrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink Press

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441758Author L M MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892811854Author William F. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385698726Author Stephen BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada