Category: Canada

By C. W. Jefferys

Heritage academics have in mind! here's one quantity three of my favorite assets for instructing Canadian historical past.

Dr. C. W. Jefferys used to be one among Canada's most popular ancient artists and his three-volume "Picture Gallery of Canadian History" is perhaps his best-known success. His hundreds and hundreds of conscientiously researched photographs of artifacts, humans, areas and episodes from Canadian background supply a "treasure residence of data approximately this country's past."

Vol.1 - Discovery to 1900
Vol.2 - 1763 to 1830
Vol.3 - 1839 to 1900

By Ted Barris

A different retelling of WWII’s so much dramatic get away, advised via first-hand memories of the warriors who skilled it.

at the evening of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled via a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the wooded area past the twine of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound close to Sagan, Poland. the development grew to become referred to as &8220;The nice Escape,&8220; an complicated breakout greater than a yr within the making, concerning as many as 2,000 POWs operating with awesome coordination, intelligence, and bold. but inside a number of days, all yet 3 of the escapees have been recaptured. for that reason, 50 have been murdered, cremated, and buried in a distant nook of the felony camp.

yet such a lot don’t understand the genuine tale in the back of the good break out. Now, at the eve of its seventieth anniversary, Ted Barris writes of the major gamers within the get away try, those that acquired away, those that didn’t, and their households at home.

Barris marshals groundbreaking learn right into a compelling firsthand account. For the 1st time, The nice Escape retells the most amazing episodes in WWII without delay during the eyes of these who skilled it.

Joint Winner of the Libris Award for Non-Fiction ebook of the 12 months 2014
Globe and Mail Bestseller
Toronto Star Bestseller

In August 1914, Canada discovered itself jolted from its greatest isolation by way of the onrush of a eu disaster. In Victoria, British Columbia, adolescence who have been proficient at Victoria highschool went to warfare and have been without end replaced through the adventure.

From school room to Battlefield follows the stories of this cohort during the moment conflict of Ypres, while Canadians suffered extraordinarily from the German use of poison gasoline; the horrors of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and Amiens; and, eventually, victory at Mons. It weaves Victoria excessive colleges idealistic hopes into the realities of the ache, affliction, and dying in remote fields of fireplace, whereas analyzing legacies of the clash at domestic. this can be a poignant booklet approximately conflict, reminiscence, and sacrifice from one in all Canadas preeminent writers of ancient nonfiction.

By Brian Brennan

The massive luck of Brian Brennan's neighborhood bestseller construction a Province left readers clamouring for extra. Alberta Originals is Brennan's reaction to the call for, that includes sixty extra major and influential Albertans.

From philanthropists to neighborhood characters, artists to oil-patch executives, Alberta Originals is stuffed with those who made a special contribution to the social, financial, cultural, and political foundations of Alberta. everybody used to be an unique who introduced his or her strength and imaginative and prescient to the shaping of a province that has a heritage of embracing the weird and entrepreneurial.

Brian Brennan presents a clean examine those province developers, highlighting little-known information from the lives of The well-known 5, "Bible Bill" Aberhart, Frank McMahon, Catharine Robb Whyte & Ernest Manning.

By Farley Mowat

3 boys, Awasin, Jamie and Peetyuk locate Viking relics in an historic tomb. the tale revolves round little-known information regarding the customs of Viking explorers and the unexplored land in Northern Canada

By Paul Schliesmann

A black vehicle is pulled from the Rideau Canal close to Kingston, Ontario, containing the our bodies of 3 women— sisters Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti Shafia— besides their presumed aunt, Rona Amir Mohammad. Later within the day, after kin record the ladies lacking, Kingston police turn into suspicious. The tales advised by way of mom and dad Tooba Mohammad Yahya and Mohammad Shafia, and their eldest son, Hamed, do not fit up with the speedily accumulating proof.
An wide research unfolds, revealing a troubling tale of actual and emotional abuse within the Shafia home—including threats of homicide. Police start to suspect that this can be a quadruple "honour killing," deliberate and performed to wipe away the family's disgrace attributable to the eldest women.
Two years later, Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and Hamed Shafia are attempted for the mass murders, whereas a stunned country follows the case until eventually its gripping end.

By Stephanie Kirkwood Walker

recommended for the 2003 Honourable point out for really good Craftsmanship in Production

The early settlers of Waterloo County - Mennonites, Germans, and Scots - equipped enterprising groups in a land of rivers, rolling hills, and fields. this day the associated towns of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge are nonetheless surrounded through small cities with robust rural traditions.

This photographic background of the quarter includes one hundred thirty black and white pictures from as early as 1880, recording the cultural panorama, the structures, parks, markets, gala's, and parades. the various images will tease your fancy with whispers of the pioneers’ spirit, whereas others catch the strength of occasions and dare us to interpret the earlier.

By Richard J. Gwyn

Number one nationwide BESTSELLER

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most vital top minister, is the fellow who made Confederation ensue, who equipped this kingdom over the following area century, and who formed what it truly is at the present time. From Confederation Day in 1867, the place this quantity alternatives up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of 4 provinces in important and jap Canada right into a robust kingdom, regardless of indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment within the United States.
 
But it wasn't effortless. Gwyn paints a great portrait of Canada and its leaders via those adolescence and likewise delves deep to teach us Macdonald the guy, as he marries for the second one time, offers with the start of a disabled baby, and the assassination of his shut buddy Darcy McGee, and wrestles with even if Riel may still cling. Indelibly, Gwyn exhibits us Macdonald's love of this nation and his skill to joust with forces who could were simply as chuffed to determine the top of Canada earlier than it had particularly started, making a must-read for all Canadians.

By Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis

“[A] marvelous e-book a few visionary post–food financial institution project.” —Michael Pollan

THE overseas BESTSELLER

British tremendous chef Jamie Oliver known as it "amazing," writing that he'd traveled world wide and not obvious whatever love it. New York occasions food author Mark Bittman known as it "one of these forward-thinking teams pointing tips to the way forward for sturdy food." Raj Patel, the seriously acclaimed writer of Stuffed and Starved, stated he was once "blown away" via it.

So what's it? The cease, a neighborhood nutrition Centre that has revolutionized the best way we wrestle starvation and poverty.

Since group employee Nick Saul grew to become the administrative director of The cease in 1998, it's been remodeled from a cramped meals financial institution to a thriving, across the world revered neighborhood meals Centre. The cease has flourished with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers' markets and a undertaking to revolutionize our nutrients approach. In a voice that is "never preachy" (MacLean's), Saul and Curtis percentage what The cease may suggest for the way forward for foodstuff, and argue that everybody merits a dignified, fit position on the desk.