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  • Brown of the Globe

    Volume Two: Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at its most critical stage. This second volume traces the sectional conflict that brought political deadlock by 1864 and makes clear Brown’s vital ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Careless at Work

    Selected Canadian historical studies

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada’s best-known historians. In Careless’s own words, History is dated. Its very claim is that the past does not fade into ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume X of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Frontier and Metropolis

    Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series series Heritage
    The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland relationship across time and space.The first essay presents an overall appraisal of the historic ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Fergus

    A Scottish Town By Birthright

    by Pat Mestern ...
    Pat Mestern, author of several earlier books and an ardent booster of her hometown, has produced an entertaining personal account of Fergus, while maintaining the historical perspective and utilizing the rich oral history of the area. Her lighter look at some of the characters and the escapades that add flavour to life in small-town Ontario make this a delightful read. Ghost stories and "the ... Read more

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  • Sorry, I Don't Speak French

    Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

    by Graham Fraser ...
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    $13.99 CAD

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    Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

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  • Pierre Berton's War of 1812

    by Pierre Berton ...
    To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's two groundbreaking books on the subject. The Invasion of Canada is a remarkable account of the war's first year and the events that led up to it; Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries as well as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    by Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Relentless Change

    A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History

    by Joe Martin ...
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  • The Big Book of Canadian Trivia

    by Mark Kearney, Randy Ray ...
    Here in one big book is all the trivia and facts about Canada anyone needs to know. The Big Book is jam-packed with facts and stories. There are stories of important Canadian artifacts and history including what became of Canada's World War II spy camp. All regions and provinces are covered, as well as important Canadian figures like John Molson, Elizabeth Arden and Russ Jackson. If that isn't ... Read more

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