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Challengers of the Sea brings you face to face with men and women who take on the best and the worst of what the Northwest Atlantic Ocean offers. Read gripping accounts of losing sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, and best friends to the ravages of unforgiving...
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Flanker Press
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2018-02-28
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Challengers of the Sea brings you face to face with men and women who take on the best and the worst of what the Northwest Atlantic Ocean offers. Read gripping accounts of losing sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, and best friends to the ravages of unforgiving...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-02-01
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For over a century now, the stately and prestigious Château Frontenac, which graces one of the most beautiful sites in Quebec City, has captured the imagination of visitors from all over the world. This is the fascinating story of how the Château's architecture has...
Editeur :
Éditions Continuité
Parution :
2018-01-25
Collection :
The Great Hotels of Canada
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On December 10, 1942, at the height of the Second World War, a crew of seven men boarded the bomber plane Time’s A Wastin’ and departed the American air base at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on their way back to the United States via Goose Bay, Labrador.
After crossing the...
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Flanker Press
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2018-01-24
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On December 10, 1942, at the height of the Second World War, a crew of seven men boarded the bomber plane Time’s A Wastin’ and departed the American air base at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on their way back to the United States via Goose Bay, Labrador.
After crossing the...
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Flanker Press
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2018-01-24
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In the fall of 1944, the Slovak National Uprising both endangers and saves Joseph Tomasov’s life. At twenty-two years old and Jewish, Joseph has been a constant target of the Nazis and their Slovak allies. Joining the resistance movement is his only way out, even though...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2018-01-15
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In the Krakow-Plaszow forced labour camp, both Johnny and Sam quickly learn of the brutality of the new commandant, Amon Göth. At sixteen years old, both feel like they are walking a tightrope, where one wrong move can make them the target of Göth’s unpredictable...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2018-01-15
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Montreal hosted the Confederacy’s largest foreign secret service base during the Civil War.Montreal banks and other Canadian financial institutions held a million dollars or more in hard currency or gold to fund clandestine activities. When Jefferson Davis fled the U.S....
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Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-10-25
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Some liken formal histories to four-lane highways. Nick Fonda answers with a meandering country road, quietly charming, with a human face.
If all politics is local, so all history is local… and anecdotal. As the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs said, anecdotes are the...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-10-15
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The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-10-12
Collection :
Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories
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A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northern Canada.
As the...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2017-10-07
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A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northern Canada.
As the...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2017-10-07
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Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner’s son had been missing for days....
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-10-06
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Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner’s son had been missing for days....
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-10-06
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When Emily Patterson arrives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children in 1862, she finds herself worlds away from Bath, Maine, the staunchly pious township of her birth. Up the remote reaches of Vancouver Island’s Alberni Canal, Emily learns much about...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2017-09-30
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Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin--the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity,...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2017-09-23
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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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History has told us in unambiguous terms that the statistics from July 1, 1916, were grim and shocking. Most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can recite the facts on cue: 801 men went “over the top” at Beaumont-Hamel, France; all but sixty-eight were either killed or...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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History has told us in unambiguous terms that the statistics from July 1, 1916, were grim and shocking. Most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can recite the facts on cue: 801 men went “over the top” at Beaumont-Hamel, France; all but sixty-eight were either killed or...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-22
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