In the 1930s, the exciting urban environment of Montreal provided the perfect venue for a varied group of people who came together to form a kind of "salon" in the turmoil of the Great Depression. For ten years, these friends and acquaintances met each week at the home of the artist John Lyman. They saw themselves as "modern," a part of the avant-garde that was then busily changing the world. These Canadian modernists supported left-wing causes, advocated a more stable social order, and heralded...
A History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine, Including the Pemaquid Settlement (Classic Reprint)
by John Johnston
The German-Speaking Community of Victoria Between 1850 and 1930 (Geschichte, #155)
by Volkhard Wehner
Union of the Colonies (Classic Reprint)
by Great Britain Colonial Office
Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 37
by Great Britain Royal Colonial Institute
Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies annual review 1974 (Mercury)
On 13 September 1759, British and French forces fought one of the most decisive battles in history, on the Plains of Abraham outside the Canadian capital, Quebec. The British force decisively routed the French, seizing the city and, ultimately, all of Canada. But the struggle for Quebec was far more than one climactic battle: the campaign involved an immense military and naval operation, an eighteenth-century D-Day. Matthew Ward has researched extensively in archives in Britain and Canada to loo...
Excerpt from The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler, Vol. 1 No man was ever more keenly alive to the in uence of just censure or praise than General Schuyler and yet no man ever felt less concern than be about the verdict of the popular feeling of the hour. Conscious of unswerving rectitude and fidelity, he was ever perfectly willing to sub mit his character and motives to the analysis of dispas sionate posterity. General Schuyler did not leave behind him any auto biography, in the form of a diar...
George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an extraordinary achievement for Dawson. Born in 1849, Dawson was crippled by a childhood illness that left him hunchbacked and in constant pain. He never grew taller than a young boy, and he never let his disabilities stop him. An avid photographer, amateur painter...
The fifth title in our provincial histories series, Mavericks is an idiosyncratic and episodic history of what is arguably Canada's most unconventional province. From mapmakers to ranchers, Stampede Wrestling to Stockwell Day, acclaimed writer Aritha van Herk brings the drama and combative beauty of this irascible province to stunning life. van Herk's portrait of her home province embraces all its extremes, from deadly and spectacular weather to dinosaur graveyards, and from oil gushers and geys...
On February 3, 1880 five members of the hated Donnelly family in Lucan, Ontario, were killed by a mob of drunken vigilantes. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys - James, Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving from Tipperary, Ireland in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous pioneer community near London, Ontario. For the next 30 years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the area. James was convicted of murder but escaped th...
Tom Thomson (Amazing Canadians) (Amazing Stories)
by Jim Poling,, Sr.
The Canadas, as They at Present Commend Themselves to the Enterprize of Emigrants, Colonists, and Capitalists
by John Galt