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Beginnings: stories of Canada's past
By Ann Walsh. 2001
Fourteen stories about Canadian history, each focussing on a "first" - the first meeting between natives and Europeans; the first…
elections in which women were allowed to vote; an account of the first "Home Children" sent to Canada during the nineteenth century, supposedly for a better life, but often to work in slave-labour conditions. Includes additional accounts to provide historical context for each story, which cover the period from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of some of its youngest participants. Grades 4-7. 2001.Company of adventurers: The Story Of The Hudson's Bay Company
By Peter C Newman. 1985
As near to heaven by sea: a history of Newfoundland and Labrador
By Kevin Major. 2001
Newfoundland author Major tells the history of his province with tales of lost Beothuk fishers and hunters, Leif Eriksson and…
his Viking colonists, waters teaming with fish, and hardy European settlers who made the Rock their home. Some of the stories verge on the fanciful and fantastic, including those about the earliest purported visitors. Major also captures the rowdy days of the 1700s when schools, doctors, and roads were nonexistent and corrupt, often-drunk British admirals dispensed frontier justice. 2001.A time to die: the untold story of the Kursk tragedy
By Robert Moore. 2003
At 11:28 am on Saturday, August 12, 2000, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia's Northern…
fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo when it exploded, incinerating all seven men in the forward compartment. In order for the surviving 27 crew members to get out, it was a race against the clock. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945
By Desmond Morton, J. L Granatstein. 1989
While Canadian soldiers fought and died in World War II, Canada itself was changing. Ottawa was forced to turn to…
the United States for economic and strategic aid; women entered the work force; industry boomed; and old traditions and loyalties were swept away. 1989.A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
By Orlando Figes. 1997
Explores the early-twentieth-century revolution in Russia that led to the removal of Czar Nicholas II and the rise to power…
of Lenin's Bolsheviks. The author places the blame for the failure of the coup d'etat to achieve its social aims at the feet of both the government and the people. 1997.Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
By Michael Griffin. 2001
Griffin chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of…
Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism. 2001.Gulag: a history of the Soviet camps
By Anne Applebaum. 2003
Washington Post columnist documents the evolution of the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system - from its origins during the…
Bolshevik Revolution, expansion under Stalin, and its dissolution after the dictator's death. The chronicle also examines the lives of prisoners and the unique society they formed. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
By Isabel Fonseca. 1996
After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and travelled with the gypsies of Eastern Europe, sharing their daily lives,…
and recording their stories and their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. She traces the gypsies from their exodus out of India, to their enslavement by the princes of medieval Romania, from their massacre by the Nazis, to their new violently contested presence in the political arena.With every mistake
By Gwynne Dyer. 2005
A collection of Dyer's writings on the post-September 11 world. He examines how the media skews fact and opinion, provides…
incorrect information, and prefers short-term news over the longer perspectives needed to understand what is going on. Combines an examination of how powerful owners mould the agendas of the press with a self-critique of his columns. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.The library at night
By Alberto Manguel. 2006
An account of Manguel's astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our…
lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The result is both personal and wide-ranging: a study of the mysteries of libraries, a thorough analysis of their history throughout the world, and an esoteric celebration of reading. 2006.Fifty years of Europe: an album
By Jan Morris. 1997
This extraordinary assembly of reflections and observations on Europe in the second half of the 20th century is defined by…
its author as an album - a blank tablet on which anything can be recorded - and it is certainly a highly personal book. It takes the reader from evocations of megalithic religion to the sensations of barge travel on the Rhine; from the gloom of Warsaw during the Cold War to the weird euphoria of Albania in the 1990s.In bed with an elephant
By Ludovic Kennedy. 1995
Kennedy discusses the long history of relations between Scotland and its neighbour to the south, England. He tells the tales…
of Scotland's heroes and the battles they fought that have become part of Scotland's proud and sometimes painful past.The Russian question: at the end of the twentieth century
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡ìsyn, Yermolai Solzhenitsyn. 1995
When a crocodile eats the sun: a memoir
By Peter Godwin. 2006
An unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. The author…
writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos and, along with it, his family's steady collapse. 2006.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.Just a minute: glimpses of our great Canadian heritage
By Marsha Boulton. 1994
What do the discovery of dinosaur bones in Alberta, Jacques Plante's invention of the hockey mask and Marshall McLuhan's radical…
analysis of the media have in common? They're all among the many fascinating pieces that make up the Canadian puzzle. 1994.Ghost town stories: abandoned dreams in the shadows of the Canadian Rockies : history (Amazing stories)
By Johnnie Bachusky. 2003
Settled with high hopes of prosperity and home to many thousands in their heyday, ghost towns offer a fascinating glimpse…
into the past. Often all that remains of the abandoned towns are the stories of a bygone era. Author Bachusky, a collector of ghost town stories, takes us on a journey into the past through the ghost towns of the Canadian Rockies and foothills. 2003.It is safe to say that America would have been a much drier place during Prohibition if Canadians had not…
rushed to the aid of their neighbours. While the United States was in full Prohibition (1920-1933), Canadian entrepreneurs were hard at work across the country supplying liquor by the barrel-load. 2004.The story of twentieth century Canada told through extracts from almost 2500 issues of Maclean's magazine, published since 1905. These…
accounts of Canadian life recall forgotten happenings and landmark events, following the country as it progressed from colony to nation to global player. 1999.