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The Storks Came Back
A boy grows up in Denmark under Nazi occupation by Afiena Kamminga
In April 1940 when his country, Denmark, is invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, seven year old Morten has no idea how his life and that of his family and all other people in Denmark is about to change. School is interrupted. Danish Resistance ...
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The Fenian Season
A Canadian Historical Thriller by Jaroslav (Jerry) Petryshyn
This fast paced historical thriller takes place against the background of a rising Fenian movement in the United States and the overt hostility of Washington toward the ‘Canadas’ immediately after the American Civil War. The Fenian Brotherhood was ...
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Unfortunate Sons
The Beginning of Marine Corps Tanks In The Vietnam War and how I survived Vietnam as a marine tanker by Joe Tyson Sr.
Unfortunate Sons is a compelling story It will draw you into Joe Tyson's world as a young Marine Tanker, full of fun and enthusiasm. You will share the daily routines of patrols and combat situations as if you were right there with him. You will ...
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Industry and Subsistency
E. F. Cartier Van Dissel and Sawmill Phoenix; The Logging of Old-Growth Timber and the Making of a Small Farm Community, 1897-1943 by Larry Hasse
The people of the Camas Valley in Washington State were founded in two socioeconomic streams as they survived the Great Depression of the 1930s and moved into the war years of the 1940s. The theoretical foundation of this history asserts the ...
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Five Ages of Canada
A History From Our First Peoples to Confederation by Graham Gibbs
Five Ages of Canada tells the comprehensive tale of the nation’s origins and formation. Graham’s First Age introduces Canada’s First Inhabitants: the Palaeo-Indians from Northern Asia, their descendants, and the First Nations, Inuit and Métis ...
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from Wah Lee to Chew Keen
The story of a pioneer Chinese family in North Cariboo by Liping Wong Yip
Who was Wah Lee? To the Keen family living in North Cariboo, B.C., Wah Lee was their forefather from China; amongst local historians, Wah Lee is the name for a general store in Quesnel, B.C. This book unravels the mystery of a name, which is also ...
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Far East Meets Far West
by Evelyn Marvin Millman
This is basically a very personal story of a mixed marriage during the early twentieth century when marriages between certain ethnic groups was frowned upon and indeed in some circles despised. Canada at that time was basically peopled by European ...
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Hallowed Ground
Stories of the Yale Pioneer Cemetery by Ian Brown
This book makes it easy with its compelling collection of stories about the people who are buried at the Yale Pioneer Cemetery, an antique burial ground “at a stopping point between Fort Langley and Fort Kamloops,” BC. Established in 1858, the Yale ...
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Life is for Living
by Carmel Sottile McDonald
Carmel S.R. Sottile was born and raised in the small town of Coniston, seven miles south of the city of Sudbury, Ontario. As a teacher, she thoroughly enjoyed teaching both the primary and the intermediate grades, in various cities in the province ...
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Merchants Exchange
Ignatius Cockshutt, 1812 - 1901 Canadian Entrepreneur by Wm. H. Cockshutt
The MERCHANTS EXCHANGE is a lively history, primarily about Ignatius Cockshutt, his entrepreneurial skills, and his contributions to the development of the City of Brantford, Canada, from 1832 to 1962. Following a brief ancestral history of the ...
