History, Canada, Pre-Confederation (To 1867)
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Marie Françoise Huc
Love and Danger in the Time of North America's Wars by Ian Bruce Robertson
Marie Françoise Huc was born in 1765 in Boucherville, Quebec. At the age of fifteen she married the surgeon Herman Melchior Eberts, a member of an Austrian regiment brought to Quebec by the British to help them quell the American Revolution. They...
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Governing Toronto: Bringing back the city that worked
by Alan Redway
In stark contrast to the dysfunctional megacity of today, The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was a city that worked. Some refer to this period from 1954 to 1998 as Toronto’s “Golden Age”. This book traces the growth and governance of the...
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A Bastion of Empire
A Story of Fort St. Joseph and the War of 1812 by David B. Clark
In the late summer of 1809, Louis Cloutier, 18, is aboard the "Nancy," a schooner of the North West Fur Company, sailing from Fort Amherstburg on a journey of 400 miles, and heading for Fort St. Joseph, the furthest northern British outpost. This...
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Redcoat 1812
by John Nixon
When James FitzGibbon dons the British army’s redcoat, little does he know that he will be sent to backwoods Upper Canada just prior to a war that will shape the North American continent. FitzGibbon’s memoire details his experiences during the...
