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Law, life, and the teaching of legal history
Using the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, an...
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Getting it done
Whether it was organizing Canada's first G-7 Summit or concluding the Free Trade agreement, Derek Burney fused politics, public policy, and diplomacy into a fine art. His tenure as chief of staff to Brian Mulroney is often cited as a model of how the Prime Minister's Office should work. As Canada...
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Harold innis on peter pond
A compelling study of Harold Innis's engagement with a remarkable – but largely overlooked – historical figure.
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France in the world
André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.
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Tracings of gerald le dain's life in the law
The life and work of a leading Canadian legal academic, university administrator, law reformer, and judge.
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Orthodoxy and enlightenment
Employing an interdisciplinary approach that gives equal consideration to Campbell's secular and religious writings, Jeffrey Suderman argues that Campbell used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to defend an orthodox Christian faith. This conclusion
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I can only paint
For Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. This book recovers a body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the effects of the Great War.
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Marguerite bourgeoys and montreal, 1640-1665
St Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), canonized in 1982, is a key figure in Canadian and religious history as a founder of Montreal and of the international order the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal, one of the first uncloistered religious communiti
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In the eye of the china storm
"The proudest day of my life was October 1, 1950. I marched with seeming multitudes across Tiananmen Square, exalting in China's independence from foreign controls. As the people raised their fists to Mao Zedong shouting Wansui, 'ten thousand year' - the traditional greeting for an emperor - I co...
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Anthems and minstrel shows
From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."
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W.a. mackintosh
The first biography of a leading Canadian economist and policy advisor.
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Victor and evie
The experiences of a governor general and his family in the early twentieth century, revealed through recently released letters and diaries.
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My peerless story
From factory to corner office – how a Canadian men’s tailored suit entrepreneur developed his company into a leader in the industry.
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Thomas attwood
Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), a Birmingham banker, played a prominent role in many of the important controversies in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote and published extensively, appeared as a witness before three Parliamentary committees, held a seat in the House of ...
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Worldwise
Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life lived across continents and languages, and at flashpoints of history. Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, focusing renewed attention on the polygot writer, cr...
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A gentleman of pleasure
John Glassco (1909-1981) holds a unique position in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious reputation throughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse, the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of James Joyce, Gert...
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Flora!
In Flora!, co-authored by Geoffrey Stevens, the politician and humanitarian Flora Isabel MacDonald tells her amazing journey, from her childhood in Cape Breton through her years in backroom politics and elected office, ending with her exceptional humanitarian work in war-torn Afghanistan and othe...
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Between composers
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic growth over six turbulent months, and illuminate their perspectives on the devel...
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Wrestling with life
A story of survival and renewal from Auschwitz to success in sport and business.
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The architecture of andrew thomas taylor
How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.
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Alejandro malaspina
The thirst for knowledge and adventure have always been at the forefront of human imagination. In this engrossing tale John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via the Philippines, New Zealand, the infant British colony at Sydney Cove, and the Tonga Islands, chronicling the life of ...
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Opium and empire
A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.
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A woman's way through unknown labrador
In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white woman to cross Labrador, documenting her travels in the classic A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. This reissue, edited and fully annotated by Sherrill Grace, makes the complete work available for the first time since the original 1908 publi...
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Hilary putnam
While Hilary Putnam's work on theories of meaning, semantic content, the nature of mental phenomena, interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic, and mathematics is crucial to recent and future developments in philosophy, the scope and volume of his writings and his radical re-thin...
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Nelson goodman
Although some of Nelson Goodman's views have become unfashionable or seem unorthodox, much in his work is of lasting significance. Daniel Cohnitz and Marcus Rossberg assess Goodman's contribution to philosophy, including his acceptance and critique of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phe...
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Shadow woman
The remarkable career of the American woman who became the world's first female master of Chinese shadow theatre.
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Zygmunt bauman and the west
Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...
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Pipelines and permafrost
Through an examination of the little-known scientific problems involved with the megaprojects of the seventies, Peter Williams shows how crucial it is that the place of scientific research in modern society be recognized by government, industry and public alike. This is a topical, provocative yet...
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The new labrador papers of captain george cartwright
An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.
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Walter gordon and the rise of canadian nationalism
From the 1950s to the 1970s Walter Gordon was the voice of English Canadian nationalism, first as chair of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, then as a minister in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet, and finally as founder and honorary chair of the Committee for an Independent Canada. ...
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Joseph roberts smallwood
There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what is known or conject...
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Jane ellen harrison
Very little has been written before about Harrison's ideas before. Harrison is a well-known and impactful figure in the LGBTQ movement. She transformed the study of Ancient Greek religion in the early 20th Century.
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To make a killing
To Make a Killing chronicles the life of Arthur Cutten, the grain and stock market speculator who made a fortune during the 1920s and was later vilified by the Roosevelt administration as one of the “banksters” responsible for the Great Depression.
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Through the morgue door
In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second year of studying medicine. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted b...
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Forget not
A fascinating journey into the history of an exiled Anglo-Quebec family against the backdrop of three generations and more than a century of Canadian and international social, political, and business history.
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One equal music
“My favorite nonfiction book of the past 25 years... humane and angry and subtle and heartbreaking. I give it to people all the time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Unrelenting, mesmerizing, and beautifully written… Transformative.”—Foreword Reviews Published in hardcover as Disturbance (20...
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Field notes from the ravine
Adrift in the suburbs with her young family, Carmen Gilmore starts researching the history of a local ravine, soon realizing that when you go looking for others’ stories, you can’t help but find your own. What is the story of a place? Intrigued by the absence of documented history about a local r...
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The wild boy of waubamik
A young boy endures years of abuse at the hands of his adoptive father. The Wild Boy of Waubamik chronicles the boy’s journey out of the ashes of fear and shame toward a life worth living, and illustrates how social systems can conspire to protect abusers.
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Being prime minister
Being Prime Minister sheds light on the lives of prime ministers as ordinary people, examining them through a variety of experiences most Canadians share.
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Antarctic pioneer
Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed forever after marrying rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. She participated in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1946–1948. Jackie Ronne dedicated her life to Antarctica and helped shape the narrative of twentieth-century Antarctic ...
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From the heart
The inspiring story of a proud Black woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an ambitious immigrant who is determined to see possibilities where others see challenges. Always striving to achieve success even where failure might seem difficult to overcome, Mary Anne is guided by her belief in hersel...
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Kenneyism
Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada’s political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately lost control, leading to his downfall.
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Nothing will be different
Tara McGowan-Ross, an infamous Montreal party girl, discovers a lump in her breast, which sends her on a tumultuous journey of rigorous self-questioning. This coming-of-age memoir weaves together a hilarious and heartbreaking story about learning to live before getting ready to die.
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The sadness of geography (tamil edition)
A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.
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A doctor's quest
A Doctor’s Quest analyzes the slow progress in global maternal health, contrasting the affluence of the few with the precarious plight of the world’s poorest.
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Deep water dream
Deep Water Dream is a hopeful memoir that shares the author’s voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.
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Alphabet soup
“At once experimental literature and alchemical apparatus — designed to take all the flavours of one man’s life experiences and transform them into something that nourishes.” — ANDREA THOMPSON, author of A Selected History of Soul SpeakA tasty yet experimental recipe of creative memoir in poetic ...
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For valour
Tells the stories of every Canadian winner of the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest award for gallantry, during the First World War. With a scope that covers the entire global conflict, For Valour follows soldiers from across Canada, all united by valour above and beyond the call of duty.
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Famous for a time
Delving into Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation’s complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation.
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Justin trudeau
A reluctant heir and a breakthrough leader, an underdog and a historic champion, the bearer of a nation’s hopes and an unsettlingly blank slate, Justin Trudeau is one of Canada’s most compelling and enigmatic figures. Journalist Huguette Young retraces his steps from his early days to the height ...
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Lost in cabbagetown
From the tenements of Dublin to the slums of Toronto, Terry Burke paints a graphic picture of his boyhood, as part of an Irish immigrant family struggling to survive on the streets of Cabbagetown, at the beginning of the 1960s.
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Ready to come about
Ready to Come About is the story of an improbable year sailing the North Atlantic, through which author Sue Williams grew to believe that there is no gift more precious than the liberty to chart one’s own course and that risk is a good thing … sometimes, at least.
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Sam steele
From humble beginnings in what is now Bracebridge, Ontario, to his knighthood in England two years before his death in 1919, Sam Steele's life epitomized the themes of personal adventure, service to Crown and country, and the zeal for modernization and social order that characterized nineteenth-c...
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Ringing the changes
A rare insight into the intimate thoughts of Mazo de la Roche, and the private life she normally kept hidden. The author confesses how strongly she connected with her character Finch Whiteoak, her struggles with wanting to be a boy, and her complicated relationship with her cousin and adoptive si...
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Invisible north
Journalist Alexandra Shimo flew to the remote Northern Ontario reserve of Kashechewan, hoping to document its deplorable living conditions. Instead, she was faced with the dark side of Canadian history and the limits of her own mental stability.
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The wild mandrake
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special case. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Life goes on, after a fashion, but there are consequences to su...
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Winston churchill and mackenzie king
Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King took different paths to achieve their objective of a parliamentary career, Churchill through military exploits and King through academic excellence. The Second World War brought the two leaders closer together, a...
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A grander vision
Sid Ryan, one of Canada’s most courageous, influential and progressive union leaders, tells the story of his life, from his upbringing in Ireland to his leadership of one of Canada’s largest unions.
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Wine witch on fire
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR 2024 TASTE CANADA AWARD — CULINARY NARRATIVES • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry.Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when h...
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The shaytan bride
Sumaiya Matin was never sure if the story of the Shaytan Bride was truth or myth. At first the bride seemed to be the monster of fairy tales. However, in the weeks leading up to Sumaiya’s own unwanted wedding, she discovers the story — and the bride herself — are closer than they seem.
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The land newly found
From two of Canada's preeminent historians comes a highly original compilation of eyewitness accounts from our nation's immigration history in the words of those who lived the experience.
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People you follow
In this deliciously entertaining memoir, Hayley Gene Penner digs into her sexual history to unearth stories that delicately straddle ethical and unethical behaviour, self-protection and self-destruction.
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Falling for london
A funny and touching memoir of how a TV reporter dragged his unwilling wife and daughter to London and how they learned to live in and love the world’s greatest city — despite a falling ceiling, ruinous costs, and quirky Brits.
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Alone: a love story
Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she's suddenly alone. Michelle documents from falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything messy in between, finally finding life and hope in the aftermath.
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A victory garden for trying times
A Victory Garden for Trying Times is a journey through a year of love and despair, and a testament to healing in the natural cycles of the earth.
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Home safe
At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, journalist Mitchell Consky and his family of healthcare workers grapple with their frontline obligations while providing end-of-life care for his father with terminal cancer. Home Safe is a moving memoir of what it takes to come together to make a dying love...
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The stone frigate
The Stone Frigate is the harrowing account of an ordinary, young woman admitted as the first female Cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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Spirit of the dragon: the story of jean lumb, a proud chinese-canadian
Spirit of the Dragon is well-illustrated with photographs of Jean Lumb in the company of her family and important people in her life, including John Diefenbaker, Queen Elizabeth, Governors General Roland Michener and Jules Leger, plus Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, Pauline McGibbon and Hal Jack...
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Marjorie her war years
Sent away from her family and England to an isolated farm where she was at the mercy of a tyrannical “cottage mother,” Marjorie Arnison had to learn to forget her identity in order to survive in her unfamiliar and hostile new home. It was only much later in her life that the memories of where she...
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J.p. bickell
Without J.P. Bickell, Toronto wouldn’t have the Maple Leafs. A self-made man who left a giant mark on Canada, Bickell was also an industrial giant, a wartime leader, and a philanthropist — a man whose legacy continues to this day.
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Shark assault
One of the most dreadful experiences humans fear is a shark attack. This horrifying agony is exactly what happened to Nicole Moore. Surviving gruesome misery, including the amputation of her left arm and attempts to rebuild her disfigured leg, she fought on to become a source of inspiration for t...
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Persephone's children
Using inventive forms, Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman after escaping the stranglehold of domestic abuse.
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The book of malcolm
A memoir of a family’s resilience and its odyssey through the medical system, and an attempt to give dignity and meaning to a life cut mysteriously short. Fraser Sutherland, the late Canadian poet, wrote this memoir after his son, Malcolm, died suddenly at twenty-six after having suffered from sc...
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Unconventional candour
The candid memoir of George Smitherman, one of Canada’s most distinctive and impactful politicians in the past two decades.
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The way it is
Greg Curnoe is one of the most adventurous and exciting Canadian artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In a series of vividly coloured works he found a multitude of ways to construct an autobiography that, contrary to establishment ideas of his time, obliterates the boundary betwee...
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Black flag of the north
The incredible story of pirate Bartholomew Roberts, and how he transformed into the king of the pirates. From his idyllic boyhood to the high seas he ruled for four fiery years. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, this is the definitive account of Canada’s own pirate king.
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After the flames
“A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines.” — KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire MurdersOn the morning of March 10, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third-degree burns on 95 percent of his bod...
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How different it was
Upending the portrait of the Victorian age as a time of stuffy morals and manners, How Different It Was reveals the chaotic years of early Canada. The lifestyles and daily struggles, the controversies and social values, the institutions and tensions in a tumultuous society of immigrants, aborigin...
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A very canadian coup
A comprehensive new look at the life and times of Canada’s fifth — and least understood — prime minister, including the January 1896 coup where seven of Bowell’s cabinet ministers forced his resignation so Sir Charles Tupper could lead the Conservatives into the ill-fated June 1896 election.
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Soar, adam, soar
An intense account of Adam’s life and legacy, Soar, Adam, Soar is told both by his loving priest-turned-dad and by Adam himself, through his many included Facebook posts.
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Charles pachter
Charles Pachter, one of Canada’s most celebrated artists, is the creator of such iconic works as Queen on Moose and The Painted Flag. This new work, with its intimate anecdotes and captivating photos and art, showcases the life and work of a man who has helped to redefine Canadian art.
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Toronto mayors
A history of the city through the lives of its leaders. From its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,600 residents to a metropolis of three million, this is the first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors: the good, the bad, the colourful, the leaders, the rogues, the scoundrels, and the r...
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The lost prime ministers
In just five years, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. This is the dramatic saga of the lost leaders of Canada: Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper.
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Molly brant
Molly Brant, head of the Mohawk Matrons and chatelaine of a manor house in New York State, was at home in both Six Nations and white society. Because of her ability to influence native politics during the American Revolution, she won the respect of the Canadian Indian Department, becoming a vital...
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The captain was a doctor
After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in Hong Kong prison camps before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same.
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Strength of conviction
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair’s rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced — from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the N...
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Babble on
Babble On is a memoir about someone who is deeply conflicted and mired at the intersection of drug dependence, the criminal underworld, and mental health issues.
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The 4 year olympian
It started with learning how to not fall out of the boat and ended with crossing the Olympic finish line four years later. The 4 Year Olympian is a story about overcoming self-doubt and giving everything you’ve got in pursuit of a singular goal.
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The running-shaped hole
Robert Earl Stewart weighs 368 pounds and struggles to catch his breath while talking. He starts running to save his life. Along the way he loses 140 pounds, ends up in jail, and eventually runs the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon.
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The burden of exile
A memoir of danger, oppression, and international politics by a survivor of the Eritrean dictatorship. A view into a secretive country and the uneasy alliances of Africa, and a story of family resilience.
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Embedded
In 1870, Colonel Garnet Wolseley set off for Red River with 1,100 soldiers to end the rebellion started by Louis Riel. Two reporters accompanied the military expedition, the Daily Telegraph’s Robert Cunningham and the Globe’s Molyneux St. John, as well as St. John’s wife, international burlesque ...
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Art ross
The first authorized biography of Art Ross, Hockey Hall of Famer, founding father of the NHL, and long-time member of the Boston Bruins. Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky, and Sidney Crosbie have all hoisted the trophy that bears his name. Learn about Ross's early crusade for players' rights,...
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Buying a better world
George Soros is a billionaire and a philanthropist, a social activist who uses his wealth to champion social causes and change the world. With access to Soros and his Open Society Foundations, Anna Porter examines the growth of the man and the organization, the causes he has championed, and his s...
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Becoming a somebody
Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951 with a mere five dollars to his name, no English, and very little education. Within five years, he had started a construction company and broken ground on his first subdivision, kicking off a career as one of the country’s top businessmen. His is one of Cana...
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Glimpses of a global life
Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal looks back at the fifteen years he spent as the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He shares glimpses of conflicts, discussions, and characters such as Uganda's tyrant, Idi Amin, and the enlightened spirits of others like Germany's Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela — al...
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Michael snow
Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist and one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important issues in the history o...
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