For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers.
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Author:Townsend, Robert B.
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Author:Pigott, Peter
Summary:It is a cruel irony of history that as we celebrate the centenary of flight on December 17, 2003, aviation is in a tailspin and airlines are disappearing in Canada.
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Author:Bray, Matt
,Thomson, Ashley
Summary:Over the past two decades, the question of who owns the land of Temagami and how the land should be used has caused a debate of unparalleled intensity.For the native people, it is their lands under
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Author:Hamilton, Dwight
,Rimsa, Kostas
Summary:The discovery of a suspected homegrown Islamic terrorist cell in our own backyard last year shocked most Canadians. The question arose: Is this country next on Al Qaeda's hit list?
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Author:Colombo, John Robert
Summary:Terrors of the Night is a collection of more than 100 accounts of eerie events and weird experiences that have been recorded by Canadians over the last 400 years.
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Author:Pelly, David F.
Summary:David Pelly tells the Thelon’s story, exploring the mystery of Man’s relationship with this special place in the heart of Canada’s vast Arctic barrenlands. From Thanadelthur and Telaruk to J.W.
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Author:Schabas, Ezra
Summary:The Royal Conservatory of Music, founded in 1886, is rich in history and genius.
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Author:Gough, Barry
Summary:The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the l
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Author:Horn, Bernd
,Wyczynski, Michel
Summary:In the midst of the Second World War, the Germans introduced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, featuring a new kind of soldier: the paratrooper.
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Author:Beck, Jeanne R.
Summary:"In her portrayal of the life of Sister Catherine Donnelly, founder of the Sisters of Service, author Jeanne Beck has succeeded in weaving a tapestry rich in texture, broad in scope and deeply
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Author:Ross, Veronica
Summary:Canada's foremost cookbook author began her career, not as a cook, but as a journalist writing for Canadian magazines. She was 60 when she turned her attention to food.
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Author:Suthren, Victor
Summary:To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook’s arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific.
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Author:Pitt, Steve
Summary:In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening t
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Author:Matthews, Carolyn
Summary:"We live, as we dream - alone." Sometimes our inner isolation is alleviated; in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, rescuer and rescued meet, and loneliness is bridged.This book of true
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Author:Bauer, Gabrielle
Summary:Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997 By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.
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