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  • The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961

    by Gordon Swoger ...
    The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures –their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their subsequent removal to western Europe and then to Canada. At the end of the war two Polish governments, a Communist one in Warsaw and a non-Communist one in ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Ranch on the Cariboo

    by Alan Fry ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.Excerpt from Eldon Lee's foreword: “This book by Alan Fry is probably the best book ever written on ranch life in the Cariboo. His account ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Balkans

    A Short History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Series Book 3 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Great Halifax Explosion

    A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

    by John U. Bacon ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER * by the author ofThe Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldThe "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes“Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A captivating and emotionally investing journey.” —Pittsbur... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Rig

    An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster

    by Mike Heffernan ...
    In the early hours of February 15, 1982, while undertaking exploratory drilling one hundred and seventy nautical miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland, the Ocean Ranger, the Titantic of semi-submersible oil rigs, capsized and sank in a severe weather storm. All eighty-four crewmen, including fifty-six Newfoundlanders, were lost. It was Canada's worst maritime disaster since the Second World War, ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Canada's Soldiers in South Africa

    Tales from the Boer War, 1899-1902

    by John Boileau ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In 1899 a thousand Canadian soldiers went to war--in South Africa.They were fighting white farmers who defied the mighty British empire by setting up their own, independent state.This South African or Boer War of 1899-1902 marked the first time Canadian troops went abroad to fight alongside Britain.Like other conflicts, the Boer War was controversial in Canada. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's liberal ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The History of Canada Series: Three Weeks in Quebec City

    The Meeting That Made Canada

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Series series History of Canada
    In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and steamships spurred visions of a continent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Home Children Bundle

    The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

    by Mary Pettit, Gail H. Corbett, Marjorie Kohli, Kenneth Bagnell ...
    In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • 60 Years Behind the Wheel

    The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960

    by Bill Sherk ...
    From rumble seats and running boards to power tops and tailfins, 60 Years Behind the Wheel captures the thrill of motoring in Canada from the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960. There are intriguing stories of cars with no steering wheels, and fascinating photographs of historic vehicles from across the country. From the Studebaker to the Lincoln-Zephyr, from the showroom to the scrapyard, here ... Read more

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  • Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson

    The Life Story of Olaf Hanson

    by A.L. Karras, Olaf Hanson ...
    From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, natural history of the region as well ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Coast to Coast

    Hockey in Canada to the Second World War

    Edited by John Chi-Kit Wong ...
    As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed.In Coast to ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD