Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada
$22.99 Add to cartThroughout his long and illustrious career, Benjamin Franklin nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it American.
When he was not busy conducting scientific experiments or representing … [more below]
- Author: Drohan, Madelaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1459754182
- Language: English
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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813-1816
$23.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who
- Author: Lower, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417184
- Language: English
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North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution
$35.00 Read moreHow the United States was created–a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels
The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence- Author: Lennox, Jeffers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0300226128
- Language: English
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
$29.99 Add to cartIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of
- Series: Voyageur Classics #11
- Author: Drew, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1550028014
- Language: English
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The French Traveler: Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada
$19.00 Add to cartThe French Traveler — Letters to “Ch re Madame”
Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada
The First English Translation of The 1768 Bestseller “Le Voyageur Fran ais”
Translatio
- Author: Gairdner, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1988360277
- Language: English
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Enslavers of the Maritimes
$16.99 Add to cartA painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many
- Author: Thompson, Brenda J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149269
- Language: English
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From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War
$19.95 Read moreFilled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War
Despite all we know about the Civil War, its cau
- Author: Martin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416382
- 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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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 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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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony Volume 5
$43.68 Read moreDavid Woodman’s classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the shi… [more below]
- Series: McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern #5
- Author: Woodman, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0773545417
- Language: English
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
