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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

    S$ 16.45 SGD

  • Escaped Killer: True Story of Serial Killer Allan Legere

    by RJ Parker ...
    When this killer was on the loose, citizens were vigilant, yet scared. Children were not allowed outside to play without adult supervision. But then he was captured, tried, convicted, and put away for life in prison. The community could finally breathe again.They are out of danger.Until the day the convicted killer escapes prison and rains terror upon anyone and everyone in his way. The manhunt ... Read more

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  • North of America

    Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution

    How the United States was created—a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrelsThe story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British colonies in North America. Patriots were surrounded by ... Read more

    S$ 33.67 SGD

  • Social Policy and Practice in Canada

    A History

    by Alvin Finkel ...
    Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young.This book is the first synthesis on social policy ... Read more

    S$ 41.41 SGD

  • Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches, Books 4-6

    by Mike Filey ...
    Series series Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches
    Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then ... Read more

    S$ 21.24 SGD

  • Transatlantic Methodists

    British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec

    by Todd Webb ...
    Series Book 2.66 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire. Transatlantic Methodists uncovers how the Methodist ministry and laity in these colonies, whether they were British, American, or native-born, came to define themselves as transplanted Britons and Wesleyans, in response to their changing, often contentious relationship ... Read more

    S$ 110.84 SGD

  • Amour et Conquête

    Lieutenant dans l’armée anglaise, Howard arrive au Bas-Canada au printemps 1796 et remplit plusieurs missions. L’Écossais voulait marcher dans les traces de son père, l’amiral Charles Douglas, qui avait participé à la conquête de la Nouvelle-France aux côtés du vice-amiral Saunders, puis secondé le général Carleton et repoussé les Américains du Canada en 1776. Durant ce séjour, Howard s’éprend de ... Read more

    S$ 6.00 SGD

  • Cold Comfort, Second Edition

    My Love Affair with the Arctic

    by Graham Rowley ...
    Series Book 13 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques. Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before World War II, including the experience of travelling by dogsled over unexplored land. This new ... Read more

    S$ 35.52 SGD

  • Abenaki Daring

    The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869

    by Jean Barman ...
    Series Book 88 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792–1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. Despite outstanding service as an officer in the War of 1812, Annance was ... Read more

    S$ 39.45 SGD

  • The Republic of Canada Almost

    The history of Canada since post War of 1812 to Confederation in 1867, is an interesting chapter and not a well known part of our history. The provinces of Quebec and Ontario were ruled by non elected powers who controlled the governments. In Lower Canada (Quebec) it was the Chateau Clique, and in Upper Canada it was the Family Compact, who provided the fuel for the Rebellions of 1837-38. To fi nd ... Read more

    S$ 6.49 SGD

  • Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?

    Montreal, 1819-1849

    Series Book 29 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history. And yet the three prevailing explanations - the technical (new energy sources), the Marxist (new social relations), and the neo-liberal (people became more industrious) - are inadequate in making sense of this fundamental change. In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing ... Read more

    S$ 44.24 SGD

  • Roy Thomson Hall

    A Portrait

    A vibrant, richly illustrated commemorative book celebrating the first 30 years of Roy Thomson Hall, one of Canada’s most famous performance venues.Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait traces the first 30 years of what was initially known as "New Massey Hall." Arthur Erickson’s iconic design quickly became a symbol of a vibrant city emerging on the world stage. Home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the ... Read more

    S$ 12.85 SGD

  • Love in the Air

    Second World War Letters

    by Joanne Culley ...
    Love in the Air tells the story of a love that blossoms when an ambitious farm girl from Saskatchewan and a charming musician from Ontario lock eyes one night during a wartime social. But duty soon calls, and with a ring sealing the promise of a future together, the two embark upon different paths an ocean apart.Separated for two and a half years during the Second World War, Helen Reeder, age 24 ... Read more

    S$ 5.34 SGD

  • Heroes & Rogues

    and the Story of Heart's Content

    by Ted Rowe ...
    In 2009, author Ted Rowe published his fascinating book about the transatlantic cable called Connecting the Continents. The narrative of that 1866 miracle of engineering brought the outport of Heart’s Content back to the world’s attention. Now, in a companion volume to his earlier book, Rowe introduces us to the characters who shaped this remarkable community from its earliest days up to the 1970s ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • The Dominion of Youth

    Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an ... Read more

    S$ 41.30 SGD

  • Views of the Salish Sea

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia

    It is not mere coincidence that two-thirds of the population of British Columbia occupies lands bordering its great inland sea, the Strait of Georgia, and connected waterways collectively known as the North Salish Sea. Averaging forty kilometres in width and stretching some three hundred kilometres from Vancouver and Victoria in the south to Powell River and Campbell River in the north, the North ... Read more

    S$ 26.04 SGD

  • A Ride to Remember

    In the Alberta Rockies

    A Ride To Remember is a story to keep, from a time when horses carried us over mountain trails, there was no chopper, no I-phone, no GPS, no plastic wrap, but we had everything we needed. It was too good to be true. We were asked to come along on a wonderful horseback trip in the Rocky Mountains in 1947. We always intended to write about our adventure, now two of us who are left are doing just ... Read more

    S$ 12.31 SGD

  • The Iron Rose

    The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD

    by Fred Edge ...
    Charlotte Ross (1843-1916) belonged to the first generation of women to practice medicine in Canada and was Manitoba’s first qualified woman doctor. ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • Driv'n by Fortune

    The Scots' March to Modernity in America, 1745–1812

    by Sam Allison ...
    A provocative account of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders and its crucial place in history.The remarkable story of the men of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders moves from the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, through the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, to the War of 1812.Simon Fraser, chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, raised the 78th Highlanders, a regiment that played a major role in ... Read more

    S$ 11.65 SGD

  • Revival and Change

    The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections

    Series series Turning Point Elections
    Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.The Liberals had been in office for two decades when the 1957 election was called and were widely expected to win another majority government. But new Conservative leader John Diefenbaker completely overshadowed his opponents. Highlighting Liberal arrogance, ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • The Gorilla Man Strangler Case

    Serial Killer Earle Nelson

    The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in Minnesota and dropped him at the Canadian border. They had unwittingly transported notorious serial killer, “The Gorilla Man,” who had strangled more than ... Read more

    S$ 10.00 SGD

  • The European Roots of Canadian Identity

    What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking and French-speaking Canada are concerned, but it is no less true when one examines Canada's multiple ... Read more

    S$ 29.42 SGD

  • Corrie and the Rose Accordion

    Dutch Girl, Hitler's War, Symbol of Hope

    by Liesje Wagner ...
    The Rose Accordion: A Dutch Girl's War of Hell and HopeA true story and inspired by actual events, The Rose Accordion depicts my mother, Corrie, and her family's experiences during the Second World War in The Hague, Holland.Many do not realize that The Hague was one of the worst-hit cities during WW2. Events experienced by Little Corrie Gelauf and her father, Henk Gelauf, drastically follow two ... Read more

    S$ 10.67 SGD

  • Les bases de l’histoire d’Yamachiche 1703-1903

    Comment écrire une histoire utile, même celle d’une paroisse, avec quelques documents isolés, d’une époque à l’autre ? On aurait beau remplir les lacunes par une suite de faits et d’événements traditionnels que l’imagination embellirait et enchaînerait logiquement, leur donnant toutes les apparences de la vérité, si on recourt aux sources anciennes oubliées dans la poussière des vieilles archives, ... Read more

    S$ 2.90 SGD