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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550173451Author Pat Wastell NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 385g

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a...

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion - the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954412477Author Joshua WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Source Point PressPublisher Source Point Press

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"To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful service and assured comfort, in this new land." - Mr. G. Bogue Smart, Inspector of British Immigrant...

The third in a series of unique surveys of the battles in the War of 1812. In April 1813 the Americans launched a new campaign to conquer Upper Canada, after their failure to do so in 1812. However, following initial victories, the U.S. assault stalled...

Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. Beginning in 1800, the Order grew steadily in many parts of the country during the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in the early part of the twentieth century. Since...

In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish...

At the Ocean's Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia's colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes - sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive -...

In August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, Berlin had become Kitchener. It began with the need to...

For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974652788Author Ron PapandreaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Ron PapandreaPublisher Ron PapandreaWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Sir Robert Borden was Plenipotentiary of Canada at the Peace Conference. With the Versailles Treaty ratified by the Canadian Parliament, Borden largely believed his work was done. He retired as Prime Minister in 1920. Although Borden died in 1937, the...

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 9781846770029Author Robert RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur Ltd

Relations between Canada and Quebec have never been easy. Beginning with the Conquest and working through the many political permutations before Confederation and since, there has always been conflict between the two governments and, in particular,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551095387Author Heather-Anne GetsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

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Niniskamijinaqik - Ancestral Images provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova...

Provides new insight into the early settlers of Prince Edward IslandProvides new insight into the early settlers of Prince Edward IslandAbout the AuthorBrendan O'Grady (1925-2018) was a long-time PEI resident and wrote several articles on Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398811348Author Valentina JaskinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165416Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771025112Author John DemontFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

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A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552124482Author Stan SauerweinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 308g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771056987Author Sid MartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Between 1869 and 1948, Britain sent more than 100,000 "home children " to Canada to work as indentured farmers and domestics. They were promised a bright future in the land of opportunity, and some managed to make a good life, but many were abused,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551090498Author William S CrookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing Ltd

Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The experiences of Indigenous peoples in these urbanizing frontiers have been...

Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. Born to missionary parents in China in 1903, Cecil-Smith came to Toronto in 1919 where he joined the...

Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385685061Author Cassie BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance...

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term's meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it...

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after...