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Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary

By Catherine Fogarty. 2021

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Canadian history, Politics and government, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human…

rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including overcrowding, harsh punishment and extreme isolation. But when another group of convicts turned their pent-up rage towards some of the weakest prisoners, tensions inside the old stone walls erupted, with tragic consequences. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates were finally forced to surrender. Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential reading for our times. Includes 24 pages of photographs.

Nothing Ordinary: The Story of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine

By Larry Krotz. 2021

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Canadian history, Medicine, General non-fiction
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This is the story of how 800,000 citizens created their own school of medicine, and what it has meant for…

the region and its people.Northern Ontario is a vast territory — almost as big as France and Germany combined — with a widely scattered population the size of only 10% of the rest of the province. Rich in forests, minerals, scenery and brilliant, hardy people, Ontario’s north, like many other rural and remote areas, had difficulties attracting and keeping doctors. The solution, they decided, was to train their own. An astonishing percentage of graduates remain to serve the unique needs of their home communities, from rural, to Indigenous, to Francophone. Over the course of twenty years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has transformed healthcare and created a legacy of a school that is far from ordinary.

Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

By Charlie Angus. 2022

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Politics and government, Nature, Canadian history
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Charlie Angus uncovers how Canada’s mining dominance feeds the world’s hunger for cobalt, a mineral with a horrific present and troubled history.

I married the Klondike

By Laura Beatrice Berton. 2005

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Biography, Canadian history, Women biography
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Autobiographical saga of a woman's courage and devotion in a hostile land; set in the early part of the 20th century, Dawson City, in the Yukon

The kids book of Canadian history (Kids Book of)

By John Mantha, Carlotta Hacker. 2002

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History, Canadian history, Canadian travel and geography, Politics and government
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Overview of the people, places, and events that have shaped our neighbor to the north. Uses facts, miniprofiles, and time…

lines to trace the development of the Canadian nation. Discusses the aboriginal people, the arrival of European explorers and settlers, and modern-day multiculturalism. For grades 3-6. 2002

Friends, Foes, and Furs: George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804-1822 (Rupert's Land Record Society Series #15)

By Harry W. Duckworth. 2019

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Canadian history, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
The daily journals of a Canadian fur trader and clerk for the North West Company.

Meet our new student from Quebec (Robbie reader. Meet our new student from)

By Ann Weil. 2010

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Travel and geography, Canadian travel and geography, Canadian history
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Preparations by a third-grade class in New York for the arrival of a new student from Quebec is the setting…

used to introduce the history, geography, and customs of the Canadian province. Includes a recipe for chocolate sparklers and instructions for creating a wind sock. For grades 3-6. 2010

Stanley Cup Playoffs, The: The Quest for Hockey's Biggest Prize (Spectacular Sports)

By Matt Doeden. 2022

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Hockey, Canadian history, United States history
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Hockey is a thrilling, fast-paced sport, and the action gets even more intense during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Fans can't…

get enough of the booming slap shots, the devastating body checks, and the overtime finishes. The Stanley Cup Playoffs: The Quest for Hockey's Biggest Prize covers it all with exciting text and vivid photos. The greatest games, the biggest moments, and the most incredible goals are all here. Join Wayne Gretzky, Alex Ovechkin, and more hockey superstars of the past and present on a fun journey through the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush

By Howard Blum. 2011

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Frontier and pioneer life, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian history, United States history, Science and technology, Biography
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Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…

cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011

Niagara... la voie qui y mène

By Nicole V. Champeau. 2020

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Canadian history
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Dans cet essai poétique, l'auteure de Pointe-Maligne, l'infiniment oubliée (Prix du gouverneur général 2009) remonte cette fois le Saint-Laurent jusqu'aux…

chutes de Niagara pour nous raconter, avec son érudition et sa sensibilité, la beauté mythique de ce lieu, sacralisé par les Autochtones et découvert par les premiers Français d'Amérique.

La condition québécoise: une histoire dépaysante

By Jocelyn Létourneau. 2020

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Essays, Canadian history
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À un Québec qui change, voici un récit d'histoire au scénario changé. Qui pense la condition québécoise en la sortant…

de sa mémoire tragique et de sa culture de la séparation. Qui met l'emphase sur les adaptations et actualisations d'une société plutôt que sur ses détournements et empêchements. Qui voit les oscillations québécoises non pas à l'origine d'une succession d'inhibitions nationales, mais comme un mode d'évolution par lequel une collectivité n'a cessé de passer à l'avenir. On lira cet ouvrage comme une tentative de cadrer le parcours historique du Québec en dehors des mythistoires et du schéma narratif qui accueillent et charpentent habituellement son déroulement. On le considérera aussi comme un essai visant à poser les bases d'une nouvelle référence historiale, si ce n'est mémorielle, pour les Québécois d'aujourd'hui, vecteurs de leur revitalisation identitaire en cours

The battle for the fourteenth colony: America's war of liberation in Canada, 1774-1776

By Mark R. Anderson. 2013

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United States history, War, Canadian history, History
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Examines the American colonies' campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free Canadians from British rule. Details military…

operations by colonial fighters and Canadian partisans against loyalist forces and assesses the impact of America's first foreign war of liberation. Violence. 2013

Barbarous years: the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675

By Bernard Bailyn. 2013

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United States history, General non-fiction, History, Canadian history, European history
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Chronicles the early settlement of North America by European peoples of myriad social backgrounds and religious affiliations. Explores the often…

brutal conflicts with native tribes, African slaves, and among the immigrants themselves as they sought to survive and prosper in the New World. Violence. 2012

Clearing the Plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life (Canadian Plains studies, #65)

By James W Daschuk. 2013

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, disturbingly, Canadian politics - the politics of ethnocide - played…

in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." He examines the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. c2013.

Winnie: the true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

By Sally M. Walker, Jonathan D. Voss. 2015

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Animals and wildlife, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

Recounts the story of Harry Colebourn, a soldier in the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, who adopted a baby bear at…

a train station. Winnie, the bear, gained popularity with Colebourn in the regiment, and later became a beloved resident of the London Zoo. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2015

The Company: the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire

By Stephen R. Bown. 2021

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Business and economics, History, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

The story of the Hudson's Bay Company is the story of modern Canada's creation. And it has never before been…

told in such depth and detail as in this new book by Stephen R. Bown

Grass beyond the mountains ; Nothing too good for a cowboy ; The rancher takes a wife: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier

By Richmond P. Hobson. 2015

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Westerns, Indigenous peoples fiction, Adventure storiesBiography, History, Business and economics, General non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

Trilogy describing the author's journey to Canada from Wyoming with a dream of owning a cattle ranch. In Grass beyond…

the Mountains, Richmond and his companions conquer the tortuous miles and carve out a space for themselves. Also includes Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Strong language and some violence. 1978

Effrontées: l' histoire pas plate de 21 québécoises audacieuces

By Christine Renaud. 2021

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Canadian history, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Racontant sous forme narrative les moments clés de la carrière de plus d'une vingtaine de Québécoises inspirantes et audacieuses, ce…

livre, illustré par une douzaine d'illustratrices au talent indéniable, se démarque par l'originalité de son angle d'approche. Ce n'est qu'après avoir pris connaissance de l'histoire que le lecteur découvre à quelle femme québécoise elle se rapporte !

René Lévesque et nous: 50 regards sur l'homme et son héritage politique

By Marie Grégoire, Pierre Gince. 2020

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Canadian politics and government, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

En 1960, RENÉ LÉVESQUE fait le saut en politique avec l'«équipe du tonnerre» de Jean Lesage. Ministre des Ressources naturelles,…

l'ancien journaliste pilote le projet de nationalisation de l'électricité. Sa conviction profonde que le Québec doit être maître de son destin l'incite à fonder le Mouvement souveraineté-association, puis le Parti québécois. Une fois aux commandes de l'État, de 1976 à 1985, il poursuit l'héritage de la Révolution tranquille en multipliant les réformes.Profondément démocrate, René Lévesque aura jonglé tout au long de sa carrière politique avec la quête d'un pays et la gestion d'un État en mutation.À l'aube de son centième anniversaire de naissance, que reste-t-il de lui et de l'empreinte qu'il a voulu laisser sur le Québec? Les auteurs sont allés à la rencontre de membres de sa famille, d'amis, de collaborateurs, d'observateurs et d'adversaires pour tenter de répondre à cette question complexe. Ceux-ci se sont confiés avec franchise pour nous faire découvrir «leur» René Lévesque dans ce portrait intime et pluriel.

Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917

By Ted Barris. 2007

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Canadian history, World War I, War
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National BestsellerAt the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen…

battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted previously and failed to take, was firmly in Canadian hands. The Canadian Corps had achieved perhaps the greatest lightning strike in Canadian military history. One Paris newspaper called it "Canada’s Easter gift to France." Of the 40,000 Canadians who fought at Vimy, nearly 10,000 became casualties. Many of their names are engraved on the famous monument that now stands on the ridge to commemorate the battle. It was the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways, it was a coming of age for the nation. The achievement of the Canadians on those April days in 1917 has become one of our lasting myths. Based on first-hand accounts, including archival photographs and maps, it is the voices of the soldiers who experienced the battle that comprise the thrust of the book. Like JUNO: Canadians at D-Day, Ted Barris paints a compelling and surprising human picture of what it was like to have stormed and taken Vimy Ridge.

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