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By Laurier L LaPierre. 1997
La vie privée et publique de Laurier, premier Canadien-français à diriger les destinées du Canada à titre de Premier ministre.…
1997. Titre uniforme: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the romance of Canada.By Antonin Dupont. 1997
By Tzu Sun. 2006
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought.…
Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu for warfare, and others have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. 2006.By Wesley B Turner. 2011
A biography of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, describing his life, career, and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and the…
context within which he lived. An unlikely hero of the War of 1812, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking was how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became its best known hero, and one revered far and wide. 2011.In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A…
"spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amidst rumors of seances in the White House. 2017.By Cornelius J Jaenen. 1991
Beginning with the early and modern history of Belgium, this booklet describes the history of Belgian contact with and immigration…
to Canada. Includes population statistics and suggestions for further reading. 1991. (Canada's ethnic groups ; 20)By Pierre Berton. 1994
The morning of September 10, 1813, saw the only battle ever fought on a Canadian lake -- the Battle of…
Lake Erie. Berton recreates that day, with all the heroism, horror, mistakes, and triumphs of this famous battle of the War of 1812. Grades 5-8. 1994.Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Privateer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On…
July 14, 1576, he sighted the most easterly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New world, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. 2001.By Pierre Berton. 1988
This history is divided into three sections: 1818-1848, the search for the Northwest Passage; 1848-1859, the search for the lost…
Franklin expedition; and 1859-1909, the search for the North Pole. Berton describes hardship, heroism, murder and cannibalism, and stresses the important role played by the Indians and Inuit. Bestseller 1988.From Mounties to maple syrup, Rachel's school report (with comments from her brother Guy) answers questions like Why are cereal…
boxes written in French and English? How did a beaver become the national icon? What is a loonie? Provides information on Canadian spelling and pronunciation; symbols; uniquely Canadian foods like pemmican and fiddleheads; and the differences between Canada and the United States. Grades 3-6. 2004.By Elizabeth Salomons. 2000
Can you imagine a time when cars were a new invention, television didn't exist and Canadian soldiers were marching off…
to the Boer War? That was the decade of the 1900's. This book covers all aspects of that era, including sports, entertainment, politics, science, the economy, clothing styles, and world and local events. Includes a time line and glossary. Grades 3-6. 2000.By Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Amy Puetz. 2017
Whether facing a band of Indians with Madeleine; saving lives at sea with Ida Lewis; experiencing the battlefields of the…
Civil War with Clara Barton, or learning the life story of Louisa May Alcott, you will be inspired by the faith, courage, and devotion of these ten girls from history. Grades 4-7. 2017.By Olive Spencer Loggins. 1983
By James Laxer. 2012
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is…
struggling to maintain its position as a world power; the incumbent American empire is quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle to establish their own confederacy. Laxer focusses on the Native struggle for nationhood and sovereignty; the battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and Lower Canada; and the unlikely friendship and political alliance between Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. 2012.By Walter Buchignani. 1994
The story of Régine Miller, who, as a young Jewish girl during World War II, was hidden by Belgium's underground…
movement and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Grades 5-8. c1994.By Richard Gwyn. 1985
By Maxine Trottier. 2005
Terry Fox was a typical Canadian kid who liked to play basketball and soccer, but whose 'ordinary' life was changed…
suddenly at age 18 when his leg was amputated because of cancer. This biography covers the life of Terry Fox and his reasons for running across Canada. Traces his progress from the run's beginning on April 12, 1980 in St. John's until its premature conclusion in Thunder Bay on September 1, 1980. Grades 2-4. 2005.By James Laxer. 2006
In 1604, a small group of migrants fled political turmoil and famine in France to start a new colony on…
Canada's east coast. Their roughly demarcated territory included what are now Canada's Maritime provinces, land that was fought over by the British and French empires until the Acadians were finally expelled in 1755. In the absence of a state, what defines an Acadian today is elusive, and while their community, centred in New Brunswick, is more confident than ever, it is entering a contentious debate about its future. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Barry Broadfoot. 1973
By David Kilcullen. 2009
Kilcullen illuminates both the global "War on Terrorism" and its relation to associated "small wars" in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines,…
Indonesia, Thailand, Chechnya, Pakistan and North Africa. He sees today's conflicts as a pairing of contrasting trends: local social networks and worldwide movements; local insurgencies seeking autonomy and a broader pan-Islamic campaign. He warns that America has often misidentified insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances (whom he calls "accidental guerrillas") as part of a worldwide terror network. c2009.