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The Promised Land
Doubleday Canada 2011; US$ 14.95After the pioneers described in The National Dream , The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers ? a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The White and the Gold
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 20.00This is the fascinating story of the French regime in Canada. Few periods in the history of North America can equal it for romance and color, drama and suspense, great human courage and far-seeing aspiration. Costain, who writes history in the terms of the people who lived it, wrote of this book: "Almost from the first I found myself... more...
The Dunsmuir Saga
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 14.95The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the... more...
The Wild Frontier
Doubleday Canada 2012; US$ 17.50Canada?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 of all Mounted Policemen;... more...
Everything Runs Like a Movie
Dundurn 2013; US$ 9.99Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life. more...
War in the St. Lawrence
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 18.99From 1942 to 1944, fifteen German submarines destroyed or severely damaged twenty-seven ships, including three Canadian warships, a U.S. Army troop transport, and the Newfoundland ferry Caribou. More than 250 lives were lost. It was the only battle of the twentieth century to take place within Canada?s boundaries, and the only battle to be fought... more...
The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 21.99In November 1981, in what has been called the most important conference since the Fathers of Confederation got together in Quebec City in 1864, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met behind closed doors in Ottawa with the ten premiers. It was the culmination of more than five decades of political wrangling, one last attempt to renew the constitution... more...
The Best Place to Be
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 16.99For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world?s fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada?s centennial. It becomes clearer,... more...
The Destiny of Canada
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 17.99Everyone knew it would be Sir John A. Macdonald's last campaign. His Conservative Party had dominated Canadian politics since Confederation. His National Policy, which protected Canadian manufacturers from foreign competition, was well established. And there remained widespread affection for the "Old Man." The Liberal leader, Wilfred Laurier, was... more...
Mavericks
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 17.99The fifth title in our provincial histories series, Mavericks is an idiosyncratic and episodic history of what is arguably Canada's most unconventional province. From mapmakers to ranchers, Stampede Wrestling to Stockwell Day, acclaimed writer Aritha van Herk brings the drama and combative beauty of this irascible province to stunning life. Van Herk's... more...









