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With axe and bible
Lucille H. Campey traces the progress of Scottish colonization and its ramifications for New Brunswicks early development. This book is a must for genealogists.
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Eris
An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.Don Barton is the visionary creator of Greenhouse, a popular immersive game where millions play at “saving the environment” in the surreal digital landscapes of the met...
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Food, sex, & salmonella
This book is about the true meaning of eating, intimacy, love, vomiting and diarrhea: You and your food partner. It is about the celebration of ecology through eating and about how food poisoning can save the world.
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Yet another home
There are but few poets capable of touching us socially, politically and economically. However, Peter Jailall is one of these limited few Kofi Casisi, teacher, poet
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Fast sailing and copper-bottomed
Stories of the Aberdeen-built ships that carried emigrant Scots to Canada are documented in this account of early Scottish emigration.
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Broadway north
An historical chronicle of Canadian musicals and the composers, lyricists, actors, and producers who brought them to life across Canada.
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200 years yonge
A celebration of Yonge Street, from its beginning as a First Nations Trail to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil.
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Canoeing a continent
A personal account of the travels of Max Finkelstein as he retraces, some 200 years later, the route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America.
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English bloods
An illuminating and humorous biographical account of the "English Bloods" young men sent to learn farming skills in Muskoka in pioneer times.
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This healing place
Peter Jailall, teacher, storyteller, and poet, expresses great passion for the English language and for the quality of life of all Canadians.
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A sporting chance
For years African-Canadian athletes struggled against rampant racism, yet excelled in their respective sports. This is their story.
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Winisk
Prior to a devastating flood on May 16, 1986, the First Nations residents of Winisk had carried on with a traditional lifestyle built largely around hunting and trapping seasons.
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Mar
Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all.
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Steeped in tradition
From drawing rooms of Victorian Britain to Ontario kitchens, rituals of afternoon tea have always delighted.
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No ordinary man
George Mercer Dawson, famed geologist, includes the surveying of the Yukon and being head of the Geological Survey of Canada among his incredible legacies.
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The rouge river valley
The Rouge River Valley is a unique yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of Toronto.
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The year is a circle
Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreaus philosophy, Victor Carl Friesen writes a poem for each and illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs.
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Memories of magical waters
This book contains a richness of memories of sport fisherman Gord Devals experiences on hundreds of streams, rivers, and lakes in Ontario and Quebec.
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Celestina's house
RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FINALIST • CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes’s family. For years afterwards, Celestina longs for an e...
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Broken shackles
First published in 1889 under a pseudonym, this unique book documents the flight to Canada from the perspective of a fugitive slave from Maryland.
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Amaranthine chevrolet
A teenage boy’s curious road trip across a radically changing country. In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling across farmland and on unmarked roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situati...
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South
A journalist travels to the South on a mysterious mission to report on recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. Defending himself against unknown enemies, he spirals into a hallucinatory and haunting landscape. A mystical novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questio...
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Good taxes
In Good Taxes, Alex Michalos puts forth an argument in favour of a financial transactions tax.
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A song for wildcats
2025 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD, RUNNER-UP • AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • A QUILL & QUIRE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind.Infatuation and violence grow betwee...
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Arctic alternatives
Discusses the problems that must be resolved if the peoples of the Arctic countries are to develop their region away from militarism and towards civility.
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The hypebeast
Striving to get ahead in a world of scams, Hamid is caught in the fervour surrounding a charismatic social-media imam with questionable intentions.Hamid Shaikh is a small-time crook in the big city, hoping that one of his cons will lead to riches. Tax fraud, telemarketing tricks, government scams...
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Becalming
Gosia feels stalled in her life, but a family trip opens her eyes to the life she has … and the life she wants.Gosia, a high school chemistry teacher, travels to her native Poland to visit her estranged father. Back in Canada, meanwhile, her father-in-law — who has been more of a dad to her than ...
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Disarmament's missing dimension
A collection of essays discussing Canada's role in accelerating the process of ascertaining the appropriate degree and form of UN involvement in arms control verification.
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The great escape
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Joint Winner of the 2014 Libris Award, Non-Fiction Book of the Year“As always, Ted Barris, our best writer on Canadians at war, paints small, personal stories on the broad canvas of epic conflict, and in The Great Escape, gives us the real truth on a story we thought we kn...
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Suite as sugar
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.
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One day, hard and clear
A poignant novel about two best friends sharing yearning, rejection, and lip gloss in a close-knit blue-collar town.It’s 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endles...
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The canadian novel here and now
A collection of essays about contemporary Canadian novels by Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordechai Richler, Rudy Weibe.
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The rise and fall of magic wolf
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything.Te...
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The bliss house
All that’s left of the Bliss clan is seventeen-year-old Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie, now that Gran passed and Gramps lies dead in the cold cellar. After Children’s Aid pays a visit to their secluded farm, the unlikely trio head north, a dead body wrapped in the trunk.
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Salt fish girl
Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place.
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United nations reform
The UN needs reform in order to meet the challenges of the unbalanced and alienated world whose outline is now on the horizon.
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Lokum
Travel to the bustling districts of Istanbul, get a little lost on the journey, and encounter locals who share their wisdom about life.After fifteen years away from the city, our narrator returns home to Istanbul for a family wedding. Consumed by discontent and needing a new direction in life, th...
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George dawson
George Mercer Dawson (18491901) defied health circumstances to become one of Canadas most exceptional geologists and explorers, particularly in the Yukon.
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I didn't come here to stay
From his earliest days in Winnipeg and throughout his flamboyant career as a journalist and PR manager, Ed Parker distinguished himself as a dynamic, creative innovator.
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An address book for naturalists
This is a double purpose book, for utility (the addresses of your friends) and for inspiration and challenging thought (a book of quotations).
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The mazinaw experience
The Mazinaw District in eastern Ontario is famous for Bon Echo Rock. This book traces the presence of human habitation from the areas earliest beginnings to the present.
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Orangeville
Founded by two entrepreneurs, Seneca Ketchum and Orange Lawrence, Orangeville has a history well worth exploring.
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Two billion trees and counting
Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) is recognized as Ontarios "Father of Reforestation." Due his knowledge of forestry, vision, diligence, and perseverance in the face of opposition, Ontario was rescued from the ravages of environmental disasters. To date more than two billion trees have been planted, with...
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Caledonia
Intriguing entrepreneurs, town characters and prominent citizens have touched the life of Caledonia, leaving a legacy that is fascinating, sometimes amusing and richly anecdotal.
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The mulch pile
Like his earlier book, Woman By the Shore, it is rather like an album of snapshots to leaf through.
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Worth travelling miles to see
In the 1880s the provincial government dispatched land surveyors to explore the northern Ontario hinterland in preparation for settlement.
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Revisiting "our forest home"
Frances Stewart arrived in Upper Canada from Ireland in 1822, with her husband, three children, and two servants, and settled in Douro Township on the shore of the Otonabee River in 1823. Spanning three-quarters of a century, her letters represent the immigrant experience of one of the first wome...
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Right on, you got the elbow out!
This book deals with the experiences of an airman, a radio telephone operator, one of the many "ordinary people" who served their country in the Second World War.
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Almaguin
The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering the Magnetawan River district, is a land rich with waterways and a lively history.
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From reindeer lake to eskimo point
In this account of an 800-mile canoe trip – which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past the treeline, and ends on Hudson Bay – Peter Kazaks conveys the experience of being in the north by describing the daily details that bring the trip to life.
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Shooting paddlers
Shooting Paddlers is the first book designed to help all paddlers strengthen their ability to see, recognize, and record meaningful photographic images.
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The salamander's laughter
Occasionally there occurs one of those rare collaborations between Poet and Artist that result in remarkable achievements, demanding attention.
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Waking nanabijou
Upon his mothers death, veteran journalist Jim Poling discovers papers that lead him to question her identity. A search that began in anger concludes with understanding.
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Tales of the don
From Scout outings in 1920 to pioneer cottaging, the authors long association with the Don makes for fascinating reading in this sequel to Remembering the Don.
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Nurturing yesterday's child
Nurturing Yesterdays Child, an illustrated history of the care of children, will inform you and touch your heart.
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Almaguin chronicles
Almaguin Chronicles explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement in the Parry Sound District the last frontier of this part of Ontario.
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Buckskin and broadcloth
An exciting volume of anecdotes, letters, and poetry, illustrated with period photographs and new illustrations.
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Under the sign of the big fiddle
This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Isabella valancy crawford
Elizabeth McNeill Galvin traces the life of Isabella Valancy Crawford, considered to be Canadas first poet to use Canadian themes.
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The view from foley mountain
A celebration of the joy of living in harmony with the natural world, leading you through the fields, woods, and shores of a conservation area near the Rideau Lakes.
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The queen's bush settlement
The Black pioneers who established the Queens Bush settlement where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet are the focus of this extensively researched book.
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Much to be done
Much To Be Done provides accounts of everyday life and special occasions in Victorian Ontario, drawn from diary accounts of both the gentry and the ordinary individual.
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A name for himself
Traumatized by the 1917 Halifax Explosion, followed by his fathers death, Raddall left school at age 14 yet he went on to become one of Canadas most renowned storytellers.
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The last stand
An ancient cedar forest exists on the Niagara Escarpment in a highly populated area. This full-colour book reveals the vital importance of this ecosystem to our natural heritage.
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Fifty-two sundays
Fifty-Two Sundays: From the Pulpit of the Padre is a response to the many requests for copies of David Rowland's sermons and addresses. Selecting has not been an easy task. The intention is to highlight his philosophy, objectives and beliefs. His faith, conviction and commitment tie the component...
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Bowmanville
This is an extraordinarily detailed account of a modern small town on the edge of a rapidly expanding metropolitan region.
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Death in the queen city
In 1894, the death by gunshot of 18-year-old Frank Westwood baffled Toronto police until their arrest of a strong-willed woman of colour named Clara Ford.
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Superior illusions
An epic portrayal of the lives of fur traders on the Voyageur Route from Lachine to the great summer meeting-place at Grand Portage.
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Découvrons notre patrimoine
Depuis que le programme de commémoration historique a été inauguré par le gouvernement de l'Ontario en 1956, plus de 1 000 plaques ont été érigées d'un bout à l'autre de la province.
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Les écossais
This is the first fully documented account produced in modern times of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada, which began in the late eighteenth century.
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Superior rendezvous-place
This lively book encompasses the French predecessors of Fort William, Native Peoples of the time, and the evolution of the fur trade.
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Parry sound
Parry Sound, Ontario, at the mouth of the Seguin River on Georgian Bay, traces its history back to William Beatty Jr. and the purchase of timber rights.
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Family secrets
A chance encounter led Catherine Slaney to investigate her family genealogy and revealed her great-grandfather, Dr. A.R. Abbott, Canada's first African-Canadian doctor.
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Spring again
In this collection of poems, noted naturalist-writer Robert W. Nero offers insight on a variety of birds, from peregrine falcons to common ravens.
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From lochnaw to manitoulin
A Highland soldier journeys by land and canoe in the 1830s to attend the "gift-giving" ceremony on Manitoulin Island.
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Brockville
Brockvilles origins reach back to the resettlement of Loyalists following the American Revolution and the threat of American encroachment.
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Paddling the boreal forest
The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador has captivated avid canoeists for generations. The Canadian iron man, A.P. Low (18611942), surveyed the area.
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Legends in their time
This book chronicles the early lives of 18 young people who influenced the direction of the history of Canada.
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Nature's year in the kawarthas
An almanac of key events occurring in the natural world over the course of a year in the Kawartha Lakes district and in cottage country in general.
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To whom the wilderness speaks
"Lawrence was quite possibly the most remarkable woman in Canada. Certainly she was a remarkable nature writer." - Pat Barclay, Books in Canada
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The loghouse nest
A charming account of the author's special relationship with the birds and wild creatures who shared her northern homesite at Pimisi Bay, near Mattawa, Ontario.
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Scotland farewell
This is the story of the first Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector their hardships, resourcefulness, and ultimate success.
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Once upon a time long, long ago
How did we get to be US? Who are WE? This story, set some 50,000 years ago when an almost explosive change in people’s behaviour occurred, addresses these questions.
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Faces of the north
A photographic account of John J. Honigmanns anthropological endeavours among northern First Nations from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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The silver chief
Called The Silver Chief by the Native Chiefs with whom he negotiated a land treaty at Red River, the fifth Earl of Selkirk helped Scottish Highlanders relocate in Canada.
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The gift of country life
These poems, grouped into seasonal activities or observations, celebrate the rural world of 1940s farming.
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Black creek pioneer village
Black Creek Pioneer Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in southern Ontario during the 1800s.
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Nature first
Friluftsliv is an approach to creating a relationship between humans and nature. Nature First explores ways of applying this wisdom to everyday out-of-doors life.
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Moose to moccasins
Born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle.
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Legends of the mississaugas
An epic retelling in poetic form of the creation myth of the Mississaugas.
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Remembering the don
A tribute to the days when there were Mississauga Indians camped along a Don River teeming with salmon, red-coated militia regiments, and courageous pioneers.
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The lure of faraway places
Herb Pohl, solo wilderness canoe traveller, left a legacy of stories that take us into the private world of an individual alone in the wilderness.
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Muskoka dining guide and favourite recipes
This book not only provides background and directions for selected restaurants and resorts but also features the chefs choice recipes for home cooking.
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Copper woman
Afua Coopers poetry brings mythic, historical, and present-day voices to life, all the way from Africa to the Caribbean to Canada and beyond.
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Freshwater heritage
Beginning with the first sailboat on the lakes through the naval battles of the War of 1812 to the demise of commercial sail, Don Bamford combines his lifelong passion for sailing with his love of history to create this richly illustrated history of sail on the Great Lakes a first ever comprehen...
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Foundations of faith
The Ontario landscape is dotted with places of worship. Behind each lie personal stories of exceptional individuals and historical events.
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Discover your heritage
Since 1956 more than 1,000 historical markers have been erected throughout Ontario.
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Lady grayl
This is the story of a man and his owl. But what a man and what an owl! The owl is an enchanting spook, a feathered spirit from some ancient world.
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The legacy of john waldie and sons
The story of John Waldie, "the second largest lumber operator in Canada," provides insights into the world of the lumber barons and the impact of the industry on Ontario forests.
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Rescue from grampa woo
The dramatic story of the rescue of two men from a cruise ship on Lake Superior as it drifts out to sea in hurricane-force winds.
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