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Royal Spectacle

By (author) Ian Radforth
Categories: European history
Series: Heritage

In 1860, Queen Victoria sent her eighteen-year-old son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on a goodwill mission to Canada and the United States. The young heir-apparent (later King Edward VII) had not yet ...

Louis Riel c. Canada

By (author) J. M. Bumsted
Translated by Marie-Hélène Duval
Categories: History

A Short History of Progress

Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all ...

Mountie in Mukluks

By (author) Patrick White
Categories: History of the Americas

But readers of Mountie in Mukluks will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo. And by the time they have finished they will never be able to think ...

An Unauthorized Biography of the World

By (author) Michael Riordon
Categories: Memoirs

An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official ...

Riding Into War

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the ...

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema

By (author) George Melnyk
Categories: History of the Americas

With its beginnings rooted in the languages and cultures of the French and English, Canadian cinema has, over time, become more representative, reflecting the interests and aspirations of Canada’s many ...