A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists.Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from...
Prime Ministers of Canada (Songs That Teach History)
by Ed P Butts and Blaine Selkirk
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities. Moved by the State offers a completely new interpretation of this undertaking, focusing on the bureaucrats and academics who designed and implemented these relocations - and on the larger development project they were pursuing. Tina Loo's finely crafted history reveals th...
A Statistical Sketch of the Corn Trade of Canada, &c (Classic Reprint)
by Henry Samuel Chapman
Canada's Mechanized Infantry (Studies in Canadian Military History)
by Peter Kasurak
Canada's Mechanized Infantry explores the development of the Canadian Army's infantry after the First World War. Modern studies of technology and war have tended to focus on tanks and armour, but soldiers discovered that military success really depends on the combination of infantry, armour, and artillery. Peter Kasurak demonstrates how the Canadian army implemented successful infantry vehicles and doctrine to further its military goals during the Second World War until organizational constraint...
Wisconsin, Land of Frenchmen, Indians, and the Beaver (Classic Reprint)
by James I Clark
A Crucible of Fire (Upper Canada Preserved War of 1812, #5)
by Richard Feltoe
From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy's Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed poised to sweep across the Niagara frontier to Lake Ontario, link up with the American fleet, and complete the final expulsion of the British allied forces from Upper Canada. However, only a month later, the sha...
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions (Explorers Club)
by Sir John Franklin
In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the Erebus and the Terror, set out in search of the Northwest Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many years. Franklin and his crew inspired a spate of books on exploration in the nineteenth century, and interest in his expedition has revived with the recent discovery of the bodies of several of its members, perfectly preserved by ice for nearly a ce...
Forty Days Lost (Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium; V. 9)
by Ben East
Seven men en route by air from iron mines in northern Quebec make an emergency landing in wild bush country and attempt to keep themselves alive for 40 days.
Profiles of Canada
This third edition of Profiles of Canada combines depth, breadth, sophistication, and readability to offer the student a comprehensive introduction to Canadian society. The editors have brought together contributions from a wide range of disciplines to create a fascinating overview of the various facets of Canadian life and culture. The text includes aspects of the Canadian experience not usually found in introductory texts. The inclusion of a short story by Alistair MacLeod, for example, is an...
The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, Vol. 1
by John Graves Simcoe
This Blessed Wilderness (The Pioneers of British Columbia)
by Jean M. Cole
The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established the Canada-U.S. border.Archibald McDonald was a man who experienced these changes first hand. As a senior HBC officer, he was sent to the Columbia District headquarters at Fort George in 1821 to oversee the recently absorb...
Conrad Weiser's Journal of a Tour to the Ohio, August 11 October 2, 1748 (Classic Reprint)
by Conrad Weiser
The Battle of Seven Oaks (Amazing Stories (Altitude Publishing))
by Irene Ternier Gordon
A Brief Narrative of the Journeys of David Thompson in North-Western America
by Joseph Burr Tyrrell