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Into the blue: family secrets and the search for a Great Lakes shipwreck
By Andrea Curtis. 2003
Journalist Andrea Curtis remembered her grandmother Eleanor as a sophisticated Montreal matriarch. Then she began researching the 1906 sinking of…
the steamboat J. H. Jones, which had been captained by Eleanor's father. While looking into his role in the tragedy, she discovered Eleanor's hidden past. 2003.Imaginary line: life on an unfinished border
By Jacques Poitras. 2011
At one time a single settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off split it…
down the middle, resulting in the Maine-New Brunswick border, the first boundary to be drawn between Canada and the U.S. For centuries, friends, lovers, schemers, and smugglers have reached across the line, but now, post 9/11, political paranoia has led to a sharp divide, disrupting the lives of residents. Poitras travels the length of the border to uncover an arbitrary line that shouldn’t be there, almost wasn’t there, and can be difficult to find even when it is there. Some strong language. 2011.Along the shore: rediscovering Toronto's waterfront heritage
By M. Jane Fairburn. 2013
Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts -…
the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate connection with Lake Ontario and the natural world. Exploring the history, landscape, geography, and people of each of these waterfront areas reveals a rich heritage that has gone largely unrecognized and is for the most part forgotten. Brings to life the stories, many of which have never been told, of the lakefront and the people who have inhabited these special places. 2013.First invaders: the literary origins of British Columbia
By Alan Twigg. 2004
Recalls the drama and confusion arising from the initial contacts between Europeans, Americans and the First Nations on Canada's West…
Coast. The hub was Friendly Cove in Nootka Sound where Chief Maquinna oversaw the wheeling 'n' dealing - and where modern British Columbia was born. 2004.Ghost town stories II: from renegade to ruin along the Red Coat Trail (Amazing stories)
By Johnnie Bachusky. 2003
When the train came west through southern Saskatchewan and Alberta, settlers and then outlaws were quick to follow. They came…
with high hopes and grand ambitions, but the Depression and a series of natural disasters left them destitute. Author Johnnie Bachusky journeys back to the towns in their heyday to tell the stories of their colourful past. 2003.Ghost town stories III: tales of dreams, tragedies, and heroism in British Columbia (Amazing stories)
By Johnnie Bachusky. 2004
Dreams of wealth brought waves of opportunists to British Columbia, who settled throughout the province in communities destined to disappear.…
These include old mining towns, farming communities flooded for reservoirs, and Japanese internment camps. The lives of a number of characters who made up the thrilling, tragic, and curious past of these almost-forgotten towns are described. 2004.Halifax, warden of the North
By Thomas H Raddall. 1993
The history of Halifax from the Micmac to modern times is presented, with a focus on the city's historic military…
role and the effects of its strategic position. Winner of the 1948 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1993.Coldstream: the ranch where it all began
By Donna Yoshitake Wuest. 2005
Coldstream Ranch on the outskirts of the Okanagan city of Vernon is one of the oldest continually operating ranches in…
Canada. It was founded by Charles Houghton to provision the Cariboo Gold Rush in 1863. This is an affectionate chronicle of a historic institution. 2005.High seas, high risk: the story of the Sudburys
By Pat Wastell Norris. 1999
Around the Sound: a history of Howe Sound-Whistler
By Doreen Armitage. 1997
"Around the Sound" traces the rich and exciting past of Howe Sound-Whistler. From the first peoples, early European explorers, gold…
seekers, loggers, fishers, miners to the newcomers who settled to farm the fertile valley, much of the history and anecdotes are told from the perspective of local residents. 1997.Fishing for a living
By Alan Haig-Brown. 1993
On the West Coast, catching fish is a way of life. Haig-Brown celebrates this in these writings, oral histories and…
photographs about the people who build the boats and fix the gear and bring in the fish - from gillnetters to trollers to salteries. 1993.Canada's odyssey: a country based on incomplete conquests
By Peter H Russell. 2017
150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of…
multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. Russell provides an account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests." It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. 2017.Hostages to fortune: the United Empire Loyalists and the making of Canada
By Peter C Newman. 2016
When the smoke from the battles of the American Revolution had settled, tens of thousands of individuals who had remained…
loyal to the crown in the conflict found themselves without a home to return to. Destitute and ostracized, these Loyalists turned to the only place they had left to go. The open land of British North America presented them with an opportunity to establish a new community distinct from the new American republic. The journey to their new homes was far from easy, and their sacrifices once there set the groundwork for a country that would be completely unlike any other. Neither fully American nor truly British, the Loyalists established a worldview entirely of their own making, one that valued steady, peaceful, and pragmatic change over radical revolution. 2016.Greenbank: country matters in 19th century Ontario
By W. H Graham. 1988
Using the histories of four neighbouring farms as its focus, this book explores all aspects of the social and economic…
history of rural Ontario over 100 years, 1835 to 1935. c1988.Ghost camps: memory and myth on Canada's frontiers
By Stephen Hume. 1989
These 17 essays attempt to explain Canadian history by looking at people in their struggle with nature. Hume examines native…
Canadians, alone and in relation to Europeans, early explorers such as Franklin, fishermen, miners and firefighters. c1989.He saw with other eyes: stories of the Cariboo
By Todd Lee. 1992
In the 1950s, Todd Lee came home to Williams Lake to begin his career as a United Church minister. His…
stories of life in the Cariboo-Chilcotin are filled with colourful events. 1992.Gold rush: reliving the Klondike adventure in Canada's North
By Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson. 1996
For one year, the Wilsons relived the adventure of the great stampede to the Klondike gold-fields. This lively account of…
their travels and experiences lets us share the excitement of finding gold as they hand-mine with rockers, sluices, picks and shovels. 'Gold rush' is a tribute to those who went before, a century ago. Klondike Ho! 1996.Gentlemen emigrants: from the British public schools to the Canadian frontier
By Patrick A Dunae. 1981
Frozen in time: unlocking the secrets of the Franklin expedition
By John Geiger, Owen Beattie. 1988
Sir John Franklin's third Arctic expedition set sail in 1845, and disappeared without a trace. During the next decade, 35…
expeditions failed to find the missing explorers. In 1981, anthropologist Owen Beattie found a human skull which led to three scientific expeditions. 1988.Hunting the northern character
By Antony Penikett. 2017
World leaders often invoke "the northern character," but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Duddly Do-Right to Northern…
Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaprojects. His lively account of clashes and accommodations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders not only retraces the footsteps of his hunt for a northern identity but tells the story of an Arctic that the world does not yet know. 2017.