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52 Best Day Trips from Vancouver
Greystone Books 2011; US$ 15.95Jack Christie has been sharing his enthusiasm for the outdoors since the 1980s. Through his popular guidebooks and media appearances, he has helped countless Vancouverites and visitors alike appreciate the renowned natural beauty and diverse recreational opportunities of the Pacific Northwest. From the first time he combed through his files and... more...
Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 90.00This collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague, October 24-27, 1990. This unique meeting took place for the first time in the history of Canadian Studies. The focus of the papers is on the future rather than the past and it took place at a moment in time... more...
A Concise History of Canada
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00This book traces Canada's history from the arrival of the Aboriginal peoples, through European conquest, to its prosperous present. more...
Working the Dead Beat
House of Anansi Press 2012; US$ 29.95Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs.... more...
Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Insomniac Press 2001; US$ 15.95Alien Invasion is the first critical look at the past eight years of Tory rule in Ontario. How did a province renowned for being middle-of-the-road suddenly embrace the forces of far-right conservatism? How have the cuts to health care, the spectre of private universities, regular public sector strikes, and the tragedy in Walkerton all come to pass?... more...
The Unfinished Canadian
McClelland & Stewart 2008; US$ 19.99The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the... more...
A Military History of Canada
McClelland & Stewart 2009; US$ 24.99Updated to 2007, including Canada?s war on terrorism. Is Canada really ?a peaceable kingdom? with ?an unmilitary people?? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war ? there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote. From the shrewd tactics of Canada?s First Nations to... more...
What Is a Canadian?
McClelland & Stewart 2009; US$ 26.95Each 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 calls them ?sages? ? to tell us what they believe... more...
Season of Rage
Tundra 2009; US$ 9.95The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden. Dresden is the site of Uncle Tom?s Cabin. Slaves who made their way north through the Underground Railroad created the thriving Dawn... more...
Final Appeal
ECW Press 2009; US$ 19.95In 1984 Colin Thatcher was convicted of killing his ex-wife and sentenced to life in prison. The murder and trial provoked a national media frenzy, casting the once-prominent Saskatchewan politician as the villain. After serving for 22 years, Thatcher was released and finally able to offer his own account of what happened from the time of the... more...









