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Mrs. Simcoe
A Life in the Age of Revolution
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Born into war and orphaned at birth, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe lived through some of the most dramatic upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the genteel world of the English landed gentry to rugged colonial Canada,...
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Canada, Canadians and The Beatles
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THE STORY OF THE BEATLES IS THE STORY OF CANADA AND CANADIANS With all that has been written about the world’s greatest band, you are holding something new! Finally, a book that offers a well-paced, entertaining look at Canada’s proud, oversized...
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The Revenge of History
Reflections on the Spanish Colonial Heritage and Social Revolution in the Americas
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At its peak, the Spanish Empire had colonies on almost every continent in the world. One of the regions most affected by Spanish colonialism was Latin America. In The Revenge of History: Reflections on the Spanish Colonial Heritage and Social...
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Little Temple on the Prairie
A History of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple
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During World War II, displaced Japanese Canadians arrived in Manitoba, having lost everything to government-ordered internment and forced exile. Scattered across rural farms, they faced harsh conditions, deep isolation, and the daunting task of...
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Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment
Environmental Activism and Goverment Stewardship
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Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment explores the intersection of politics and conservation, business and public interests, and government and not-for-profit organizations over more than six decades to protect what is today a UNESCO World...
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Venus Passing
The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance
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Historians have written a great deal about the military aspects of Canada’s Great War but little about the most intimate dimension of Canada’s wartime experience: heterosexual romance. Did romance influence a man’s decision to go to war or his...
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The McNair-Flemming Years, Volume 2
A Public Record of Uncertain Times, New Brunswick 1930-1960
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The McNair-Flemming Years Volume 2, relates a shift of influence by the print media. Newspaper reporting of peacetime events had always expressed a known degree of partisan views, but these suddenly became toxic. The result was a transition of...
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Hromada: The Changing Ukrainian Community in Saskatchewan
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The story of any immigrant community, at its core, depicts the changing meaning of home and identity - the home and identity you leave behind; those which you build on new shores, in new places, in new ways. How any change to that home and...
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Wings over the Sahtu
The North-Wright Air Story
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Over 100 years ago, during aviation's dawn in the unforgiving Canadian Arctic, gutsy pilots and ingenious mechanics flew a pair of WWI-vintage airplanes further north than anyone before.They proved that the airplane would transform frontier life...
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The Soldier, the Spy, and the Orphan
Fragments of Poland's Wartime History
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Amid the upheaval of two world wars, three individuals found themselves at the heart of Poland’s struggle for survival. Their extraordinary stories, shaped by war, resistance, and resilience, offer a deeply personal perspective on Poland’s...
