Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, was the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies and has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. However, author Robert J. Talbot reveals Morris as a man deeply sympathetic to the challenges faced by Canada's Indigenous peoples as they sought to secure their future in the face of encroachin...
Kitwanga Fort report (Mercury) (Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury)
by George F MacDonald
An incisive report on test excavations conducted by an archaeological team at the Kitwanga Fort Site in British Columbia. Evidence from the excavations, analysis of artifacts and archaeological testing of the legendary accounts of the warrior chief, Nekt, constitute an enlightening acocunt about a historical site, rich in oral traditions.
Historical Essays on British Columbia (Carleton Library)
by J. Friesen and H. K. Ralston
The distinctive character of B.C., which is found not only in its spectacular environment, but also in its community, its politics and its past, is admirably captured in this collection of 16 essays.
The New Practical Reference Library, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
by James Laughlin Hughes
On 24 June 1497 John Cabot landed somewhere on the eastern seaboard of what is now Canada, yet even today, five hundred years later, no one knows precisely where. Once an issue in diplomatic negotiations over title to a continent, Cabot's landfall has also been the subject, especially in centennial years, of competing attempts to appropriate the meaning of the event.Beginning with the historical context of Cabot's journey, Pope traces the various landfall theories which have placed his landing i...
A political biography extraordinaire, Elusive Destiny reveals the inner workings of the Liberal Party in its heyday as charted through the meteoric rise and fall of John Napier Turner. It highlights Turner's vision for the country and tallies the political price he paid when he deviated from the Trudeau legacy on matters such as language rights, social spending, and Quebec. It also provides a new perspective on federal politics from the 1960s through the 1980s while giving John Turner his rightf...
John Stanley Plaskett was Canada's pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett's pioneering work with the most massive stars and his definitive determination of the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy earned him international recognition of the highest order. Northern Star explores Plaskett's...
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists (the Pioneers of Manitoba)
by George Bryce
An Account of the River St. John, with Its Tributary Rivers and Lakes (Classic Reprint)
by Edmund Ward
The Military History of Green Bay (Classic Reprint)
by William L Evans
Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi, Vol. 6
by J V Brower
Ontario Public School History of England (Classic Reprint)
by Unknown Author
The Hudson's Bay Company's Monopoly of the Fur Trade at the Red River Settlement, 1821-1850 (Classic Reprint)
by Chester Martin
High on the Big Stone Heart is a collection of vibrant and entertaining essays on the people and places of Canada's Boreal North as seen through the eyes of one of the country's most celebrated writers of non-fiction. Accompany Charles Wilkins as he ranges across the wilds of northern Quebec; ventures deep into the subarctic Yukon in search of caribou; and tracks the north coast of Lake Superior, the world's most elegant and mysterious body of fresh water. Meet Murray Monk, trapper extraordinair...
The Canadians (Old West)