A view of the War of 1812 from a social perspective.
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Author:Sweeny, Alastair
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Brown-Kubisch, Linda
Summary:The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen's Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near
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Telfer, A.H.
,DiCorpo, Lorene
Summary:In the 1880s the provincial government sent out teams of land surveyors to explore the northern Ontario hinterland.
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Campey, Lucille H.
Summary:Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk.
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Shushkewich, Val
Summary:The story of Winnie, the real Canadian bear that captured the heart of Christopher, son of A.A.
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Kohli, Marjorie
,Lorente, J.A. David
Summary:"To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful service and assured comfort, in this new
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Hayes, Adrian
Summary:Parry Sound, at the mouth of the Seguin River on Georgian Bay, traces its history back to William Beatty Jr. and the purchase of timber rights.
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Feltoe, Richard
Summary:A Gentleman of Substance covers the remarkable life of John Redpath. Born to humble circumstances in Scotland in 1796, he emigrated to Canada in 1816 to become a stonemason in Montreal.
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Lee, Robert C.
Summary:The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C.
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de la Fosse, Frederick
,Shipman, Scott D.
Summary:Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic.
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Henderson, Bob
,Raffan, James
Summary:LIMITED TIME OFFER Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination.
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Brode, Patrick
Summary:A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto’s prevailing sense of peace and security.
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Campey, Lucille H.
Summary:Glengarry, Upper Canada’s first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire.
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Cameron, Scott L.
,Labadie, C. Patrick
Summary:The Frances Smith was not only the first steamboat to be built in Owen Sound, but also the largest vessel on Georgian Bay at that time.
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Kenney, Gerard
Summary:In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter.