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Loyalists and Layabouts
The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792
Written by Stephen Kimber
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $19.95
Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country.
The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the future intended to... Read more >
The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792
Written by Stephen Kimber
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $19.95
Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country.
The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the future intended to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
John A
The Man Who Made Us
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family... Read more >
The Man Who Made Us
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Against the Grain
An Irreverent View of Alberta
Written by Catherine Ford
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $12.99
A contrarian view of Alberta and Albertans from the outspoken and often controversial former Calgary Herald columnist.
In 2005, Alberta celebrates its centenary: a hundred-year stretch that has seen the province catapulted from being little more than thinly populated grassland and mountain to one of Canada’s richest provinces, one with a fair... Read more >
An Irreverent View of Alberta
Written by Catherine Ford
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $12.99
A contrarian view of Alberta and Albertans from the outspoken and often controversial former Calgary Herald columnist.
In 2005, Alberta celebrates its centenary: a hundred-year stretch that has seen the province catapulted from being little more than thinly populated grassland and mountain to one of Canada’s richest provinces, one with a fair... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Written by Philip Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost... Read more >
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Written by Philip Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Sorry, I Don't Speak French
Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
Written by Graham Fraser
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $12.99
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The... Read more >
Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
Written by Graham Fraser
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $12.99
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
Written by William Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $14.99
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and... Read more >
Written by William Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $14.99
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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What Is a Canadian?
Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses
Edited by Irvin Studin
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $11.99
Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.
Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he... Read more >
Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses
Edited by Irvin Studin
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $11.99
Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.
Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he... Read more >
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A Short History of Canada
Sixth Edition
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $16.99
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of... Read more >
Sixth Edition
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $16.99
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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John A
The Man Who Made Us
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $19.50
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family... Read more >
The Man Who Made Us
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $19.50
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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For Honour's Sake
The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
Written by Mark Zuehlke
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.00
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.
In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British... Read more >
The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
Written by Mark Zuehlke
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.00
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.
In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Private Demons
The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald
Written by Patricia Phenix
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.95
The first book to expose the turbulent personal life of this fascinating Father of Confederation.
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald once remarked, “I had no boyhood,” an understatement if there ever was one. Indeed, John A.’s Dickensian childhood, filled with poverty, alcoholism, and the beating death of his five-year-old brother at... Read more >
The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald
Written by Patricia Phenix
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.95
The first book to expose the turbulent personal life of this fascinating Father of Confederation.
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald once remarked, “I had no boyhood,” an understatement if there ever was one. Indeed, John A.’s Dickensian childhood, filled with poverty, alcoholism, and the beating death of his five-year-old brother at... Read more >
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Sorry, I Don't Speak French
Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
Written by Graham Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.50
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The... Read more >
Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
Written by Graham Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.50
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Theatre of Fish
Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
Written by John Gimlette
Format: Trade Paperback, 402 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you’ll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and forbidding coastlines and recounts the colorful and often tragic history... Read more >
Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
Written by John Gimlette
Format: Trade Paperback, 402 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you’ll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and forbidding coastlines and recounts the colorful and often tragic history... Read more >
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Against the Grain
An Irreverent View of Alberta
Written by Catherine Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $16.50
A contrarian view of Alberta and Albertans from the outspoken and often controversial former Calgary Herald columnist.
In 2005, Alberta celebrates its centenary: a hundred-year stretch that has seen the province catapulted from being little more than thinly populated grassland and mountain to one of Canada’s richest provinces, one with a fair... Read more >
An Irreverent View of Alberta
Written by Catherine Ford
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $16.50
A contrarian view of Alberta and Albertans from the outspoken and often controversial former Calgary Herald columnist.
In 2005, Alberta celebrates its centenary: a hundred-year stretch that has seen the province catapulted from being little more than thinly populated grassland and mountain to one of Canada’s richest provinces, one with a fair... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Written by Philip Marchand
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost... Read more >
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Written by Philip Marchand
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hockey
A People's History
Written by Michael McKinley
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $45.00
Lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed, impeccably researched, and wonderfully written, Hockey: A People’s History is the altogether irresistible companion book to the CBC-Television series of the same name, airing in Fall 06. A must-have for every fan!
Hockey is not just Canada’s national game, it is part of every Canadian’s psyche, whether we... Read more >
A People's History
Written by Michael McKinley
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $45.00
Lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed, impeccably researched, and wonderfully written, Hockey: A People’s History is the altogether irresistible companion book to the CBC-Television series of the same name, airing in Fall 06. A must-have for every fan!
Hockey is not just Canada’s national game, it is part of every Canadian’s psyche, whether we... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
Written by William Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $18.95
William Johnson was the first to write a book about Stephen Harper, and he has become the authority on Harper.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and, against all odds, gathered in the old Conservative Party to create a force designed to win power... Read more >
Written by William Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $18.95
William Johnson was the first to write a book about Stephen Harper, and he has become the authority on Harper.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and, against all odds, gathered in the old Conservative Party to create a force designed to win power... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Short History of Canada
Sixth Edition
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2006
Price: $21.95
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of... Read more >
Sixth Edition
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2006
Price: $21.95
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Book Of Love Letters
Canadian Kinship, Friendship, And Romance
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $16.95
In the 138 years since Confederation, kinfolk, friends, old married couples, and especially young lovers have declared on paper their caring and passion. The letters in this unique collection are moving, dramatic, funny, and remind us that falling in love is a universal experience. Read more >
Canadian Kinship, Friendship, And Romance
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $16.95
In the 138 years since Confederation, kinfolk, friends, old married couples, and especially young lovers have declared on paper their caring and passion. The letters in this unique collection are moving, dramatic, funny, and remind us that falling in love is a universal experience. Read more >
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The Book of Lists, The Canadian Edition
The Original Compendium of Curious Information
Written by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $22.00
A new edition of the classic bestseller from the original authors, with additional material specifically prepared for Canadian readers by long-time This Morning CBC producer, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow, the author of Wanted Words.
In 1977, a publishing sensation was born. The Book of Lists, the first and best compendium of... Read more >
The Original Compendium of Curious Information
Written by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $22.00
A new edition of the classic bestseller from the original authors, with additional material specifically prepared for Canadian readers by long-time This Morning CBC producer, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow, the author of Wanted Words.
In 1977, a publishing sensation was born. The Book of Lists, the first and best compendium of... Read more >
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The Wild Frontier
More Tales from the Remarkable Past
Written by Pierre Berton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $17.50
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous... Read more >
More Tales from the Remarkable Past
Written by Pierre Berton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $17.50
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Book of War Letters
100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $16.95
The second volume in a 3-book series
Duress – the extreme experience war produces – brings out the most remarkable human qualities, and letters written in wartime contain some of the most intense emotion imaginable. This anthology includes letters that date as far back as the Boer War (which began in 1899)... Read more >
100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $16.95
The second volume in a 3-book series
Duress – the extreme experience war produces – brings out the most remarkable human qualities, and letters written in wartime contain some of the most intense emotion imaginable. This anthology includes letters that date as far back as the Boer War (which began in 1899)... Read more >
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The Book of Letters
150 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $16.95
Telephone calls cannot be bundled and tied with ribbon and stored for decades in a bottom drawer. E-mails can’t take us back to our ancestors’ ways of behaving and thinking and viewing the world. Letters - fresh and enduring, each one unique - tell us things about ourselves and our past... Read more >
150 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence
Written by Paul Grescoe and Audrey Grescoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $16.95
Telephone calls cannot be bundled and tied with ribbon and stored for decades in a bottom drawer. E-mails can’t take us back to our ancestors’ ways of behaving and thinking and viewing the world. Letters - fresh and enduring, each one unique - tell us things about ourselves and our past... Read more >
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Prairie People
A Celebration of My Homeland
Written by Robert Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $16.95
An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apart
The prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere... Read more >
A Celebration of My Homeland
Written by Robert Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $16.95
An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apart
The prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Navigating a New World
Canada's Global Future
Written by Lloyd Axworthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $17.00
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims... Read more >
Canada's Global Future
Written by Lloyd Axworthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $17.00
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
