Canada
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Monkey Boulevard
$16.99 Add to cartAs displaced persons after World War II, the Piech Family chose not to return to their home in Poland, but continued from an army camp in Italy, to a Polish Dependents camp in England, finally immigra
- Author: Hikel, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988417118
- Language: English
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Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto Raptors
$18.00 Read moreThe improbable story of the birth of modern-day pro basketball in Toronto
In just over 25 years, the Toronto Raptors have evolved from an intrepid expansion team to an NBA champion. But for all the tr
- Author: Wong, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637276583
- Language: English
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the li… [more below]
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610734
- Language: English
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du Nord
$61.78 Add to cartIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ont
- Series: Mercury
- Author: Von Bitter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0776639803
- Language: English
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Northwest Epic
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story about 1,500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Alask… [more below]
- Author: Twichell, Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684920183
- Language: English
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One Story, One Song
$16.95 Add to cartA new collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the best-selling One Native Life
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Nati- Author: Wagamese, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771620803
- Language: English
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Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
$22.95 Add to cart“Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered i
- Author: Waiser, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417486
- Language: English
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The Hidden Journals: Captain Vancouver & His Mapmaker
$20.00 Add to cartHIstory turns into mystery when the authors begin to research the oral stories about Wade Baker’s ancestor, Third Lieutenant Joseph Baker, mapmaker on HMS Discovery. from 1791 to 1795. Memories from G
- Author: Tasi, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0993843816
- Language: English
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A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
$28.95 Read more“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”–Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)
“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreadi
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #11
- Author: Milloy, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557899
- Language: English
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Gooseberries Have Thorns
$19.99 Add to cartGooseberries Have Thorns chronicles everyday experiences, relationships, and major events in the lives of Maggie’s ancestors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The narrative focuses primarily… [more below]
- Author: States, Margaret L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1039139825
- Language: English
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Chasing Rivers: A Whitewater Life
$22.95 Read moreFrom a debut voice in adventure writing comes the thrilling true story of a female whitewater guide as she navigates some of the most extreme and remote rafting rivers in North America–until tragedy
- Author: Glouberman, Tamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623411
- Language: English
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The Real Winnie: A One-Of-A-Kind Bear
$12.95 Add to cartThe story of Winnie, the real Canadian bear that captured the heart of Christopher, son of A.A. Milne, is told against the backdrop of the First World War.
- Author: Shushkewich, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1896219896
- Language: English
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Reluctant Pioneer: How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
$24.99 Add to cartIn the 1870s in Ontario’s Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the Uni… [more below]
- Author: Osborne, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1926577167
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Orillia: Ontario’s Sunshine City
$21.99 Add to cartLocal author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario. First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Rizzo, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1626191042
- Language: English
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Herbs
$15.00 Add to cartIn the ninth book in Guides for the Prairie Gardeners series seasoned gardeners Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose take all your questions about growing and enjoying herbs.
If you’ve ever stood in the
- Series: Guides for the Prairie Gardener #9
- Author: Melrose, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1771514280
- Language: English
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Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop
$16.00 Read moreFrom the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children’s Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to no
- Author: Smith, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120334
- Language: English
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Rafting the Great Northern Rivers: The Nahanni, Firth, and Tatshenshini
$29.99 Add to cartThough modern science and technology have given us comfort and security, for many people, something deeper is also needed; something that takes us closer to our evolutionary roots in nature. This book… [more below]
- Author: Becker, W. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1039113052
- Language: English
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Mirror Horse: A Memoir
$19.95 Read moreEnglish/Canadian indie musician Tamara Williamson offers an unbridled account of a life in the world of horses.
“A definite read, not only for horse lovers, but anyone whose life has been touched by an
- Author: Williamson, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623497
- Language: English
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Laughing Back at Empire: The Grassroots Activism of the Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
$27.95 Add to cartAsian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80s
Laughing Back at Empire is a ground-breaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti- sexist, a
- Series: Human Rights and Social Justice #4
- Author: Wong, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840297
- Language: English
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Passalong Plants
$41.00 Add to cartPassalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cer… [more below]
- Author: Bender, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0807844187
- Language: English
