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This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expedition to the Boothia Peninsula, Rae discovers the missing link in the Northwest Passage. On the same trip, a chance encounter with an Inuit hunter...
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Ronsdale Press
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2017-04-30
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Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre is inspired by the work of archaeologist Jean-Pierre Chrestien (1949–2008), who worked hand-in-glove with a generation of researchers in helping to unearth unexpected and always interesting aspects of New France.Contributions focus first...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
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2017-04-28
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WINNER Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books, 2005
WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, 1999
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”—Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)
"[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-03-29
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"Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German industrialists were particularly...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-02-17
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"Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German industrialists were particularly...
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Flanker Press
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2017-02-17
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WINNER Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research, 2017
WINNER Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2017
WINNER CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association, 2017
WINNER Gita Chaudhuri Prize,...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2016-10-07
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Shipwreck. Starvation. Cannibalism.
For the first time, celebrated author Gary Collins brings to life the tale of the brigantine Queen of Swansea. Bound for Newfoundland in December 1867, the vessel made her first port of call in St. John’s, only to meet her doom on...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2016-09-16
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“Hope dies hard with a sailor.” — W. B. Cullen, mate of the Roanoke, 1909
Globe and Mail bestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories of high-seas adventure! Set mainly along the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1800s and...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2016-09-02
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This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture,...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-03-31
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From the “Newfie Bullet” to the SS Kyle to Amelia Earhart, Getting Around the Rock is a fascinating history of the transportation sector, largely in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador. These recollections were passed on to the author by his father, Raymond...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2016-03-18
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The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-10-23
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This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-10-16
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In this first-hand account of the earliest days of settlement in the Canadian West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strange new land.
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2015-10-15
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In mid-June 1864, the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) was experiencing what contemporaries call “political deadlock”: no political party could hold a majority in the Assembly. The past fifteen years had seen twelve different governments, and few important laws...
Editeur :
Nimbus
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2015-10-15
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A collection of true Christmas stories by Gary Collins, Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller!
Gary Collins invites us to live again the gone forever. These stories embody the soul of Christmas in outport Newfoundland, and each one carries a message that...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-09-18
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In Rogues and Rebels, Brian Brennan chronicles the mavericks, iconoclasts, and adventurers who threw away the rulebook, thumbed their noses at convention, and let their detractors howl. They never retracted, never explained, never apologized, and they got things done....
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2015-09-15
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In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-09-11
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Mr. Big is the shocking true story of a murder investigation in Newfoundland and Labrador that forever changed the face of the Canadian justice system.
On August 4, 2002, three-year-old twin girls Karen and Krista Hart drowned in Gander Lake. They had gone there with...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-08-28
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The picturesque Port of St. John’s is an enduring symbol of Newfoundlanders’ inextricable link to the sea. Indeed, it was the geographic features of St. John’s harbour that encouraged initial settlement here, the starting point from which the city expanded. But the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-08-21
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Tis a Wonderful Time to Be Alive is Winston Oldford’s personal account of growing up in Burnside, Bonavista Bay, in the 1940s and 1950s.
The tiny community underwent a baptism by fire—literally—in the early twentieth century. Following a devastating forest fire in the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-07-20
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