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af Harvey Whitfield ...

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af Edith Fowke, Carole Henderson-Carpenter ...

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af N. E. Dionne ...

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Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West

af Holly Quan ...

Serier serie Amazing Stories
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Dominion

What I Remember, What I Know

The Oak Island Encyclopedia

Escaped Killer: True Story of Serial Killer Allan Legere

Lethal Marriage

Her Darling Boy

Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

Old Ontario

Who Killed George?

Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary Canadian History 5-Book Bundle

The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928

Scapegoat - Scales of Justice Burning

Land of Choice

Old Trails and New Directions

The Government of Nova Scotia

Ranch Tales

"I wish to keep a record"

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes

The Bulldog and the Helix

Royal Spring

A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English

Flying Canucks II

Champlain, from The Makers of Canada

Native Chiefs and Famous Métis: Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West