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A comprehensive history of the Nova Scotian nurses who served in World War I, from a leading historian and author of Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919.
Very little has been written about Canadian military nurses in the Great War largely because, more than a century later,...
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Nimbus
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2026-04-14
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A narrative portrait of ten remarkable Nova Scotians who served in the First World War, from Indigenous and Black soldiers to nursing sisters, including 90 images.
Nowhere in Canada was the impact of the First World War felt more keenly than right here in Nova Scotia....
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Nimbus
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2025-10-07
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The first world war was one of the most devastating conflicts in our history.The death toll was like nothing experienced before, and it is estimated that over 11 million soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing, and many of those bodies have never been...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
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2025-08-18
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This is the story of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment. Beginning in the last years of collective innocence before the Great War, it follows the regiment to Vimy Ridge, through the short years of peace to Dieppe and the Italian Campaign, through the establishment and...
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University of Calgary Press
Parution :
2025-02-28
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Benedict Joseph Murdoch's The Red Vineyard was a captivating autobiographical tale of a young man's experience as a chaplain during the First World War.
As a young Roman Catholic priest from Chatham, New Brunswick, Murdoch became chaplain to the 132nd Infantry Battalion...
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Nimbus
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go.
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Nimbus
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2022-03-08
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Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Real War,Real Soldier gathers the remaining memories of a veteran of World War II. Raoul Corbeil served in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1946, and fought in the bitter Northwest Campaign that opened the route to Antwerp and liberated Belgium and the Netherlands.
His...
Editeur :
ÉDITIONS FPC
Parution :
2021-06-17
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In this second volume of Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past, authors Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Mount detail the contributions and experiences of men and women from northeastern Ontario who participated in military conflicts. They present, among many topics,...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2019-10-10
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The powerful story of over 5,700 brothers in arms.They fought at Ypres in the fall of 1915, on the Somme at Courcelette and Regina Trench in 1916. They carried on to Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele in 1917. They were part of the battles at Amiens and the Hundred...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2019-03-19
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A woman’s journey to uncover the fate of seven RCAF crewmen who perished in the Second World War.For most of her life, Lisa Russ knew little about her second cousin, Robert “Bud” George Alfred Burt. All she had were two grainy photos, a poem Bud had written shortly...
Editeur :
Heritage House
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2018-10-26
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A celebration of thirty-two heroes of the First World War enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.Praise for Remembered in Bronze and Stone:“A remarkable look at the many ways we honoured our war dead.”—Canada’s History“A fine tribute and a call to current and future...
Editeur :
Heritage House
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2018-10-26
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Brought together for the first time, the remarkable and mostly unacknowledged contributions, experiences, and remembrances of warfare by the people of Northeastern Ontario.
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
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2018-10-09
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Near the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops who set sail from Vancouver to reinforce the British Colony of Hong Kong. Within two short months, after a hard-fought but disastrous battle against the Imperial...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2017-09-12
Collection :
New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
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The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
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2017-03-16
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Loyal Gunners uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of those units is a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-09-15
Collection :
Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories
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With more than 400 photographs and 40 maps, this history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment is a tribute to those who served and a guide for those who wish to retrace the soldiers’ steps. It is the essential travel companion to the battlefields and memorials of the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-04-27
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Terry Copp’s tireless teaching, research, and writing has challenged generations of Canadian veterans, teachers, and students to discover an informed memory of their country’s role in the Second World War. This collection, drawn from the work of Terry’s colleagues and...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-02-01
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In the spring and summer of 1938, a third-generation German Canadian took an unforgettable road trip in Europe. Franklin Wellington Wegenast drove through Austria, Italy, France, Luxembourg, and Germany. He stopped to talk to people along the way and offered rides to...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-08-21
Collection :
WCGS German Studies
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The First World War profoundly affected every community in Canada. In Regina, the politics of national identity, the rural myth, and the social gospel all lent a distinctive flavour to the city’s experience of the Great War. For many Reginans, the fight against German...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2011-11-30
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