On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes, and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting...
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- Author: Esrock, RobinSummary:
- Author: Lamb, W. Kaye ; Drew, Benjamin ; Clarke, George E.Summary:
Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary...
- Author: Acland, Peregrine ; Ford, Ford Madox ; Busby, Brian ; Johnson, Pauline ; Gnarowski, Michael ; Lemelin, Roger ; Garner, Hugh ; Stuewe, Paul ; Slater, Patrick ; Hemon, Louis ; Blake, W.H. ; Lewis, Wyndham ; Pero, AllanSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature...
- Author: Garner, Hugh ; Stuewe, Paul ; Reaney, James ; Filewod, Alan ; Skelton, Robin ; Rhenisch, Harold ; Warkentin, Germaine ; Symons, Scott ; Elson, ChristopherSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary...
- Author: Shimo, AlexandraSummary:
A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history. Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017...
- Author: Muir, Elizabeth GillanSummary:
Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book A popular history of the Riverdale area of Toronto, including Playter Estates north of the Danforth. In its first 50 years, the city of Toronto changed from a rough settlement...
- Author: Payne, Mary JenniferSummary:
CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2015) - Commended Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser searches for her mother, who has gone missing shortly after the two moved to London, England, to escape Edie’s abusive father. Is it possible...
- Author: Dixon, CarlSummary:
Carl Dixon’s journey through the twists and turns of a music performer’s life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture. Though Carl’s road was rocky, it was still...
- Author: Furlong, DayleSummary:
After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless. In order to keep his family together, Jack accepts a job in a gold mine in the wilds of northern Alberta....
- Author: McCrae, John ; Macphail, Sir Andrew ; Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an...
- Author: Moss, JohnSummary:
David Morgan and Miranda Quin are two maverick, culturally sophisticated Toronto detectives. When a man is found dead in a koi pond, or two colonial corpses are arranged in a grisly diorama, the pair leap into action — and harm’s way....
- Author: Osbaldeston, Mark ; Berchem, F.R. (Hamish) ; Armstrong, Frederick H. ; Kennedy, Scott ; Pitfield, JaneSummary:
The Toronto Neighbourhoods bundle presents a collection of titles that provide fascinating insight into the history and development of Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Beginning with histories of Canada’s longest street and the...
- Author: Smith, A.J.M. ; Gnarowski, Michael ; Roberts, Charles G. D. ; Polk, JamesSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished...
- Author: Rathgeber, Brent ; Coyne, AndrewSummary:
2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction In Irresponsible Government, former MP Brent Rathgeber takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account. Irresponsible Government examines the...
- Author: Livingston, Sean E.Summary:
The story of HMCS Oakville, a corvette that fought U-boats in WWII and remains a hero to its hometown in Oakville, Ontario. This is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of HMCS Oakville, a Canadian World War II corvette that...
- Author: Sutherland, SuzanneSummary:
2016 Young Author's Award — Shortlisted CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2015) - Commended Instead of writing in a diary, twelve-year-old Jo Waller secretly edits Wikipedia entries to cope with the worst year of...
- Author: Leslie, MarkSummary:
A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through...
- Author: Maffin, Tod ; Blevis, MarkSummary:
In today’s technology-led pursuit of efficiency, we’ve removed the humanity from business. Here’s how to correct that. For better or worse, digital business has fundamentally changed how organizations hire staff, market their services,...
- Author: Redfern, JonSummary:
London: the early 1840s. The birth of the young Queen Victoria's first child is taken as an auspicious sign for all. But on a cold March night, a spree of dark crimes in shadowy workhouses shocks the city. When Inspector Owen...
- Author: Rotstein, AdiraSummary:
Presenting both of Little Jane Silver's piratical adventures in one special bundle! Little Jane Silver is the granddaughter of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on her parents' ship, she vows to become a real...