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What is a Canadian?: forty-three thought-provoking responses
By Irvin Studin. 2006
Studin approached leading Canadians from all walks of life - politics, the civil service, academia, literature, journalism, business, the arts…
- from both official language groups, and from all regions of the country, as well as from the Canadian diaspora, to tell us what they believe defines us. The answers to "What is a Canadian?" range from "someone who crosses the road to get to the middle" to "the citizen of a country badly in need of growing up" to "adaptable. To illustrate, consider the depth and breadth of the Canadian woman's wardrobe". 2006.The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
By John Vaillant. 2010
Nature writer follows a government tiger-control team as it pursues an endangered Siberian tiger, which had killed a poacher, through…
Russia's far east in the winter of 1997. Explores the beauty of the setting, the tiger's strength, and the political and geographical forces that shaped this remote region. Canada Reads 2012. 2010.They fight like soldiers, they die like children: the global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers
By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Roméo A Dallaire. 2010
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain,…
has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism - children. Believing that no one should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. He provides an introduction to the phenomenon, as well as solutions to eradicate it. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.Rare courage: veterans of the Second World War remember
By Rod Mickleburgh, Rudyard Griffiths. 2005
Twenty Canadian Second World War veterans candidly describe their experiences, including the sinking of the Bismarck and landing on the…
beaches of Normandy. Describes the search of a Jewish nurse for survivors of the Holocaust and provides tales of shot-down airmen on the run in occupied Europe. Some strong language. 2005.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
By Stephen Kimber. 2003
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. 2003.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
By Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.Time and chance: the political memoirs of Canada's first woman prime minister
By Kim Campbell. 1996
Canada's first woman prime minister reflects on her political career up to the fateful election of 1993. She discusses her…
experience in municipal and provincial politics, her election to federal Parliament, her involvement in the Mulroney government, and her election as leader of the Progressive Conservatives. 1996.Lands of lost borders: out of bounds on the Silk Road
By Kate Harris. 2018
As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer--had gone extinct. So she…
vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, but Harris realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, she celebrates our connection as humans to the natural world, and ultimately to each other--a belonging that transcends any fences or stories that may divide us. Bestseller. Winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize. 2018.February 1945. The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves, but sixty young Nazi soldiers still…
choose to undertake a mission in U-869 - to reach and bomb the coast of America. Several weeks later the boat barely has enough fuel to make it home and radio links with Germany are broken. The commander, Neuerberg, must make a tough decision: to carry on to America and risk death in the pursuit of glory, or to admit defeat and return home. Driven by pride, patriotism and determination, he decides to risk it. In 1991, a group of deep-sea divers hear about the wreck of a U-boat 260 feet beneath the sea. There are virtually no records of the Nazi submarine, and an on-location investigation is extremely dangerous. But twelve divers decide to take the risk. Over the next six years they eventually piece together an incredible story. 2004.The French Foreign Legion: a complete history
By Douglas Porch. 1991
From inauspicious beginnings to its present status as a respected metropolitan force, Douglas Porch describes the French Foreign Legion's battles…
all over the world. He looks beyond the myths that surround the Legion and analyzes its outstanding performance throughout history. He also discusses its special problems in recruitment, discipline and morale. 1991.The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
By Rory Stewart. 2006
British diplomat and author of "The Places In Between" describes his 2003 postwar work as deputy governor in the marshlands…
of southern Iraq. Details the hazards of keeping the peace among the Shia warlords while trying to rebuild the infrastructure. Strong language and some violence. 2006.Who killed Canadian history?
By J. L Granatstein. 1998
Canadian historian Granatstein writes of his concern that Canadian students are no longer taught Canadian history. Unlike older countries which…
understand the importance of history, he argues that Canadian schools, universities, and education policy makers have allowed Canadian history to be dropped in favour of trendy subjects or "dumbed down" in basic textbooks. 1998.City of Djinns: a year of Delhi
By William Dalrymple. 1993
Although New Delhi has been invaded and burned many times through the centuries, it has always been rebuilt. During his…
stay there, Dalrymple found a city full of relics, both architectural and human, from different periods of history, side by side. Research description is combined with tales of his travels and encounters with people from various levels of society, different religions, and numerous traditions. 1993.Confessions post-référendaires: les acteurs politiques de 1995 et le scénario d'un oui
By Chantal Hébert, Jean Lapierre, Valcourt Joseph-Aimé. 2014
" Les généraux politiques qui ont mené la bataille référendaire de 1995 ont aujourd'hui tous quitté la scène politique. Certains…
sont plus ou moins oubliés; d'autres sont entrés de plain-pied dans l'histoire du Canada. Pour plusieurs d'entre eux, il restait encore à raconter comment ils avaient imaginé les lendemains d'un Oui québécois. Dans cet ouvrage surprenant, Chantal Hébert et Jean Lapierre vont au-delà des stratégies convenues et de la campagne au quotidien pour jeter un nouvel éclairage sur un moment révélateur de la vie du Québec et du Canada. Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard, Mario Dumont, Jean Charest, Sheila Copps, Lucienne Robillard, Preston Manning, Frank McKenna et plusieurs autres se sont prêtés au jeu. Deux décennies plus tard et plus particulièrement à la suite de la défaite décisive des souverainistes aux élections québécoises de 2014 , les révélations de Hébert et de Lapierre risquent de vous étonner. En posant une question inattendue, ces observateurs politiques chevronnés ont ingénieusement mis en lumière les fractures, les tensions et les craintes qui, encore aujourd'hui, marquent le Canada. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The morning after.Footsteps on old floors: true tales of mystery
By Thomas H Raddall. 1988
These six true mysteries that have baffled and fascinated historians for decades include the gruesome murders aboard the "Herbert Fuller"…
in 1896 that brought her crew to a Halifax courtroom; the life of a Halifax prostitute at the turn of the century; and the mystery of a ship found adrift at sea without a crew. 1988.The kids book of Canadian exploration
By Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland. 2004
Did you know that Arctic explorers trapped in winter ice were forced to eat their shoes to avoid starvation, or…
that French adventurer la Vérendrye was convinced that Lake Winnipeg led to the Pacific Ocean? From Natives looking for hunting grounds to Europeans searching for fish, gold, or the Northwest Passage, explorers have always been drawn to Canada. And now, with no unmapped lands left, present-day explorers focus on outer space, the ocean, and the preservation of the Earth. Grades 3-6. 2004.The black book of English Canada
By Normand Lester, Ray Conlogue. 2002
Normand Lester, a former journalist with Radio-Canada (the French-language equivalent of the CBC), provides a defence of his native province…
and a repudiation of what he sees as the anglophone media's unfair attacks on Quebec and Quebecers. He chronicles general English-Canadian intolerance: the expulsion of the Acadians; the hanging of Louis Riel; R. B. Bennett's funding of anti-Semitic publications; and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Lester argues that the myth of two equal, amicable co-founders of the nation, one promoted by the federal government, ignores the fact that there will always be two incompatible national histories. 2002, c2001. Uniform title: Le livre noir du Canada anglais.Trapped in the Arctic (Adventures in Canadian history.)
By Pierre Berton. 1993
Berton tells the story of Robert John McClure, a veteran British Navy officer who was determined to find the fabled…
North West Passage. In 1850, he claimed to have found it, but in 1851, his ship became trapped in the Arctic ice, and was stuck there for nearly two years. Grades 3-6.Survivors: children of the Halifax Explosion
By Janet F Kitz. 1992