Canada’s 150th birthday is the perfect opportunity to start exploring this country with your kids while finally experiencing the spectacular Canadian destinations you’ve been dreaming about. Planning a family getaway can be overwhelming...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Robbins, JodySummary: - Author:Mombourquette, AngelaSummary:
The final chaotic season of Codco had just wrapped when Mary Walsh sat down at a Toronto bistro with George Anthony, then creative head of CBC TV's arts programming. She'd been thinking about a news-based comedy show--did he think that...
- Author:Cameron, JuneSummary:
When June Cameron and Paul Holsinger set out in 1983 in Paul's ancient 26-foot wooden sloop, Wood Duck, to cross the perilous Hecate Strait and explore the weather-beaten west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida...
- Author:Portelance, ColetteSummary:
Rêvez-vous d’une relation amoureuse réussie ? Si oui, ce livre est pour vous. En quoi reconnaît-on qu’une relation amoureuse est réussie ? En ce que, notamment, elle favorise : - l’épanouissement de chacun des conjoints aux plans...
- Author:Duff, BobSummary:
Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Ted Lindsay, and Brendan Shanahan. Bob Duff's 50 Greatest Red Wings is the definitive list of Hockeytown's heroes. Including members of the famous Production Line and The Red...
- Author:Manchester, PeterSummary:
From the days when proto-humans lashed animal jawbones to sticks and whacked wildebeest-poop slapshots in Olduvai Arena to today’s super-high-tech computer-assisted extravaganzas, one by-product of the hockey game has gone unnoticed and...
- Author:Christie, JackSummary:
The best views, biking, beaches, and outings for kids--they're all here in an updated edition of the Lower Mainland’s favourite guidebook for day-trippers, described in the clear, upbeat, observant prose that is Jack's trademark. From...
- Author:Sherk, BillSummary:
Winner of the 2004 International Gallery of Superb Printing Bronze Award for Superb Craftsmanship in Production, and the Ontario Printing and Imaging Association Excellence in Print Awards, commended for the 2004 Honourable Mention for...
- Author:Michel BrûléSummary:
Dans ce livre, Michel Brûlé, animé de l'ambition sincère d'améliorer le Québec, propose soixante-cinq mesures, voire davantage, puisque certaines idées ne sont encore qu'esquissées et s'inscrivent dans une...
- Author:Gretzky, WayneSummary:
One of the greatest sports figures of all time salutes his heroes and takes us inside the game as few others can. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments...
- Author:McAllister, IanSummary:
This nonfiction picture book is full of stunning wildlife photographs of the bears of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:McAllister, Ian.Summary:
Black bears, grizzly bears, and spirit bears all make their home in the Great Bear Rainforest. A Bear's Life uses Ian McAllister's stunning photographs to follow these beautiful animals through a year in the British Columbia...
- Author:Byrne, AllanSummary:
The picturesque Port of St. John’s is an enduring symbol of Newfoundlanders’ inextricable link to the sea. Indeed, it was the geographic features of St. John’s harbour that encouraged initial settlement here, the starting point from...
- Author:Smart, SusanSummary:
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of...
- Author:Enns, Richard A.Summary:
Much has been written about the history and the people of northern Manitoba, but until now this body of work has not been readily accessible to the researcher or teacher. This bibliography identifies published sources, such as books and...
- Author:Frost, Sydney, Roberts, EdwardSummary:
This memoir is unique. It is by far the most complete account of World War I by any member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Sydney Frost, a young Nova Scotian, was working in St. John’s at The Bank of Nova Scotia when the First World...
- Author:Davies, Bryan, Traficante, AndrewSummary:
A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War. I’m going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War...
- Author:Dickinson, Fred, Turner, LarrySummary:
Fred Dickinson’s diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century."The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred...
- Author:Hitchins, ShawnSummary:
Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn't shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes--he sacrifices them for an audience's amusement. He roasts...
- Author:Earle, StevenSummary:
A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and...
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