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A story of British Columbia logging and the people who logged. The author reminisces about his experiences as a logger,…
beginning in 1918. It also includes his recollections and discussions with more than twenty people who were involved in forestry in British Columbia. 1988.Muddling through: the remarkable story of the Barr Colonists
By Lynne Bowen. 1992
Bowen recounts the adventures of the 2,000 middle-class British citizens who followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister Isaac Barr…
to settle 200 miles from Saskatoon in 1903. Most were unprepared for the harsh Prairie climate. 1992.Moose Jaw: people, places, history
By John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby. 2001
A look at the history of Moose Jaw and its people. Every chapter includes short memoirs about various aspects of…
life in Moose Jaw, such as growing up there, or the history of Crescent Park. 2001.More English than the English: a very social history of Victoria
By Terry Reksten. 1986
This history of Victoria, British Columbia, covers the period from 1834 through World War II and concentrates on its commercial,…
maritime and social development. Anecdotal rather than formal, this book includes information on 61 sites or points of interest. c1986.McGowan's war: The Birth Of British Columbia Politics On The Fraser River Gold Fields
By Donald J Hauka, Richard Nazarewich. 2003
Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the U.S. in 1859? The author…
argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation. This is a rollicking tale of corruption, greed, incompetence and company politics that just happens to be true. 2003.Mavericks: an incorrigible history of Alberta
By Aritha Van Herk. 2001
Alberta is a province that many Canadians don't understand and indeed love to hate. In this history, the author describes…
the range of the province and its people, from mapmakers and ranchers to social reformers, from deadly weather and dinosaur graveyards to oil gushers. While regarded as a province of rednecks, Alberta is also where the Famous Five fought the landmark Person's case, where free speech is taken seriously and extreme views tolerated, and where western neighbourliness is practiced, as its people give assiduously to charity and always lend a hand where help is needed. 2001.Lights of the inside passage: a history of British Columbia's lighthouses and their keepers
By Donald Graham. 1986
Making Canada home: how immigrants shaped this country
By Susan Hughes. 2016
People from every single country in the world call Canada home. From the very first arrivals as long as 30,000…
years ago - the ancestors of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples - right up until today, people have settled in this country to build a better life. Chronicles the country’s major waves of immigration, from welcoming early European arrivals to becoming a modern-day safe haven for refugees, while also acknowledging times when Canada has not been especially welcoming. It explores how each period of immigration has shaped the laws, values, and face of Canada on the way to today’s multicultural society. Includes personal accounts, historic documents, memorabilia, and archival photographs, as well as maps, sidebars, a timeline, and a glossary. Grades 4-7. 2016.Loyalists and layabouts: the rapid rise and fall of Shellburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792
By Stephen Kimber. 2008
A few hundred loyalists gathered in New York on November 16, 1782, abandoned by their king, unwelcome in their land,…
and with no choice but to flee. Their dream was to build a new and improved New York City called Shelburne, in Nova Scotia, beside one of the best harbours in the world. The city would be more refined, royal, loyal, and exclusive, but within the decade, Shelburne was a wasteland of abandoned homes and shops. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.Lords of the lake: the naval war on Lake Ontario,1812-1814
By Robert Malcomson. 1998
In the War of 1812, control of Lake Ontario was key, and the battle for it lasted the longest. The…
feats and failures of the opposing commodores, Isaac Chauncey and Sir James Yeo, are described, as are the roles played by key military and political leaders in shaping the course of the war. Features not only sea battles and raids, but shipwrecks, chases, and blockades, as well as the treacheries of egotists and the bravery of heroes. c1998.Lost and found in Acadie
By Clive Doucet. 2004
A complex tapestry, made up of many threads of history, depicting the history of Acadia and its unique culture, and…
the people that belong to it. The pillars of Acadian society are contrasted sharply with those upholding our society today, and the many ways of life that fall into the Acadian experience are described. Covers the initial settling of Acadia, the friendship developed with the Mi'kmaq, the civil war that helped to tear Acadia apart, to the horrors of the deportation, and the subsequent attempts to rebuild and relocate history, family, and truth amidst a shattered people. 2004.Laughing all the way home
By Joan Finnigan. 1984
Land of the midnight sun: a history of the Yukon
By Kenneth Coates, William R Morrison. 1988
The Yukon was one of the last places in North America to be developed, yet it was one of the…
first places where humans arrived on our continent. From that beginning to present times, the authors tell the story of the Yukon through the lives of the people who lived its history -- Native peoples, explorers, missionaries, and seekers of wealth and the awesome beauty that is the Yukon. 1988.All hands lost: the sinking of the Nova Scotian gypsum freighter Novadoc
By Blain Henshaw. 2016
Chronicles the last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging…
nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off Portland, Maine, taking all 24 crew members, 13 of them Nova Scotians, to their deaths. The story is told through the eyes and memories of those who lost family members on the Novadoc--the brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, and friends of the young Nova Scotia men, many of them war veterans, and the two women who perished in the tragedy. 2016.Guns across the river: the battle of the Windmill, 1838
By Donald E Graves, Arthur J Robinson. 2001
In 1838, members of a clandestine American organization, the Patriot Hunters, launched a series of attacks across the border and…
occupied a stone windmill near Prescott, Ontario. After five days of heavy fighting, British regulars and Canadian militia captured the invaders and imprisoned them in Fort Henry at Kingston. This book traces the rise of the Patriot Hunters in the northern United States, describes their odyssey down the St. Lawrence and provides a detailed account of the five-day battle that followed. 2001.Fighting for Canada: seven battles, 1758-1945
By Donald E Graves, John R Grodzinski. 2000
An in-depth study of seven battles fought either to defend Canada or by Canadian soldiers overseas on behalf of their…
nation, written by six professional military historians. Emphasizing the tactical level of war, some of the battles described include Ticonderoga in 1758, Leliefontein in 1900, and Kapelsche Veer in 1945. With fascinating detail, this study chronicles the development of Canadian warfare from the musket period to the more modern warfare of the Second World War. 2000.Field of glory: the Battle of Crysler's Farm, 1813
By Donald E Graves. 1999
When the United States army attempted to capture Montreal, they faced a greatly outnumbered force of British soldiers, a small…
band of Canadian militia men and thirty Mohawk warriors. This small force was all that stood between Canada maintaining its status as its own country and it becoming a part of the United States. Graves shares the details of the build-up to the fight, and the battle that occurred on that day in the autumn of 1813. 1999.Forgotten patriots: Canadian rebels on Australia's convict shores
By Jack Cahill. 1998
A look at what happened to the convicts who were sent to Australia in the aftermath of the rebellions in…
Upper and Lower Canada in the late 1830's. Based in part on journals written by Canadian prisoners in Australia. Some descriptions of violence. 1998.How the Scots created Canada
By Paul Cowan. 2006
Using the experience of some of Canada's most famous Scots - including the first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, explorers…
David Mackenzie and Simon Fraser, poet Robert Service, and standard time inventor Sanford Fleming - Cowan describes how millions of square miles of wilderness was transformed into one of the richest and most liveable places on earth. The Scots who came to Canada drew on their education, business acumen, fighting spirit and sense of adventure - not to mention familial connections - to create a new nation. Along the way, they played a major role in twice staving off invasion by the Americans, founded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, built a national railway system, started a banking industry, settled many of our most familiar cities and towns, created industry, and invented the telephone. 2006.