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Series: "Just Mary" The Life of Mary Evelyn Grannan Hardcover Margaret Anne Hume 9781550025972 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2006

Just Mary and Maggie Muggins are names that will arouse memories in those who grew up with CBC radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s. The creator of these and other children’s shows, former Fredericton schoolteacher Mary Grannan, became a radio star when she hit the national airwaves in 1939, her popularity peaking when Maggie Muggins moved to television in 1955. Long before The Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup appeared, her work helped to shape the legacy of gentle children’s programming on CBC. Building on her broadcasting success, Granna... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Heroines 100 Canadian Heroines Famous and Forgotten Faces Paperback Merna Forster 9781550025149 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2004

This inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. In 100 Canadian Heroines you’ll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we’re remembering them. Or not! Augmented by great quotes and photos, this insp... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Heroines 100 More Canadian Heroines Famous and Forgotten Faces Paperback Merna Forster 9781554889709 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2011

Following the bestselling 100 Canadian Heroines, Merna Forster presents 100 more stories of amazing women who changed our country. In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together 100 more incredible stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in fields such as science, sport, politics, war and peace, and arts and entertainment, including the original Degrassi kids, Captain Kool, hockey star Hilda Ranscombe, and the woman dubbed "the atomic mosquit... + Read More
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Series: A Boy from Botwood Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919 Paperback Bryan Davies 9781459736719 $22.99 HISTORY Jan 21, 2017

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 memoir in motion. Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery by his grandson David Manuel, Arthur’s story is now brought to new life. Determined to escape his impoverished rural Newfoundland existence, he enlis... + Read More
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Series: A Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904 Paperback Fred Dickinson 9780969938118 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 1996

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 Dickinson’s 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giving it wide appeal to history buffs of all ages …."- Julie Johnston, award-winning author
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Series: A Doctor's Quest The Struggle for Mother and Child Health Around the Globe Paperback Gretchen Roedde 9781459706439 $26.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2012

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS.A Doctor’s Quest tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth s... + Read More
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Series: A Gentleman of Substance The Life and Legacy of John Redpath (1796-1869) Paperback Richard Feltoe 9781896219929 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2006

A Gentleman of Substance covers the remarkable life of John Redpath. Born to humble circumstances in Scotland in 1796, he emigrated to Canada in 1816 to become a stonemason in Montreal. By 1818 he had his own building and contracting firm and was working on the Lachine Canal as well as much construction and restoration work on buildings in Montreal. His work on the Rideau Canal, as contracted by Colonel John By, established his business reputation, while his leadership within the Presbyterian Church stabilized his position in the community. His... + Read More
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Series: A Man and His Words Paperback J. Patrick Boyer 9781550024869 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 01, 2004

Robert Boyer was a consummate Canadian, whose long career can be measured by words. An author, journalist, researcher, editor, printer, and public speaker, Boyer’s professional life began at the age of 19 when he became a newspaper editor, and continued through the publication of his twelfth book at the age of 88. He was also a church organist, a member of the Ontario Legislature for seventeen years, and the first vice-chairman of Ontario Hydro. A Canadian Shield Book Published by Dundurn in partnership with Canadian Shield Communications Corpo... + Read More
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Series: A Man Worth Knowing The Memoirs of Hans-Georg Neumann Paperback Hans-Georg Neumann 9781896219042 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 15, 1996

The late Hans-Georg Neumann, through his memoirs, has brought alive the history, the culture and the brutal tragedy of 20th-century Germany. While serving under General Erwin Rommel in 1941 as a signals officer, Hans-Georg was captured. Months of confinement in barbed-wire cages in Egypt and South Africa were followed by his eventual imprisonment in a former tuberculosis sanatorium at Gravenhurst, Ontario. Only the presence of a decent Canadian Commandant and his own energy saved his integrity and humanity. With a soldier’s self-discipline and ... + Read More
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Series: A Mind at Sea Henry Fry and the Glorious Era of Quebec's Sailing Ships Paperback John Fry 9781459719293 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 30, 2013

The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world’s great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry was the Lloyd’s agent for the St. Lawrence River, east of Montreal. The harbour coves below his home in Quebec were crammed with immense rafts of cut wood, the river’s shoreline sprawled with yards where giant square-rigged ships – many owned by Fry – were built. As the president of Canada... + Read More
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Series: A Name for Himself A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall Paperback Joyce Barkhouse 9780920474587 $12.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 30, 1990

"Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary while And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle …" So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island – that "hell on earth" – would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp. Traumatized by the horror of the great Halifax Explosion of 1917, followed in a few months by the death of his father in battle overseas, Tom was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen. This brief account of h... + Read More
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Series: A Paintbrush In My Hand Daphne Odjig Hardcover Daphne Odjig 9780920474730 $60.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 1992

Throughout A Paintbrush In My Hand Daphne Odjig’s story has been told by herself, as related through R. M. Vanderburgh and M. E. Southcoutt. As a product of an oral tradition that was still flourishing during her childhood in the village of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay, Daphne became a superb storyteller, in the tradition of her elders. It is this inheritance that she has built on as she told her stories to her two collaborators. Odjig’s skills as a storyteller are reflected in the impressionistic introductions to many of th... + Read More
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Series: A Passion for Justice How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer Paperback J. Patrick Boyer 9780978160005 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 29, 2008

This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today. James Chalmers McRuer was not easy to get along with or even much liked by many lawyers who dubbed him ’Vinegar Jim.’ Yet countless others saw him as heroic, inspirational, a man above and apart from his times. His resolute focus on justice changed the lives of married women with no property ... + Read More
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Series: A Quiet Courage Inspiring Stories from All of Us Paperback Paula Todd 9780887621550 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 10, 2004

Based on Paula Todd’s widely viewed television program Person to Person, an intimate biography show about human behaviour, A Quiet Courage shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. Todd explores the unique ways twelve fascinating men and women from around the world not only survive the unimaginable, but manage to thrive afterwards, including: an artist whose family is murdered; a sales clerk diagnosed with colon cancer who is given six months to live; an award-winning chef who is paralyzed in a car ... + Read More
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Series: A Stolen Life Searching for Richard Pierpoint Paperback David Meyler 9781896219554 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 1999

Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years in exile. From his birth in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around 1744 until his death in rural Ontario in 1837, Pierpoint’s life allows us to glimpse the activity of an African involved in some of the world’s great events. "We are indebted to the authors for breathing life into this man, who though taken from his... + Read More
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Series: A Struggle to Walk With Dignity The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian Paperback Gerald A. Archambeau 9780978498207 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 24, 2008

Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter. He worked for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National until the 1960s, when declining passenger rail traffic and the ascendence of air travel caused him to switch to a career with a major Canadian airline in Toronto. After his retirement from the air... + Read More
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Series: A Thousand Shall Fall The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two Paperback Murray Peden 9781550024548 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2003

One of the finest war memoirs ever written. During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil. Murray Peden’s story of his training in Canada and England, and his crew’s operations on Stir... + Read More
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Series: A.M. Klein Paperback Naïm Kattan 9780968816660 $15.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2000

The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Abraham Moses Klein (1909-1972) dreamed of a country where all might live according to their beliefs and religion. He was a lawyer, political activist, university lecturer, journalist, and poet, who received the Governor Genenral’s Award for Poetry in 1948.
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Series: A.Y. Jackson A Love for the Land Paperback Wayne Larsen 9781894852067 $15.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2003

A founding member of the Group of Seven, A.Y. Jackson portrayed the Canadian landscape in a bold and inventive manner. His paintings show us the vastness and diversity of our country and illustrate a key chapter in the story of Canada’s coming of age as a nation.
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Series: A.Y. Jackson The Life of a Landscape Painter Hardcover Wayne Larsen 9781554883929 $60.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2009

Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved characters, and the first to examine in one book the artist, outdoorsman, soldier, teacher, debater, writer, and outspoken defender of modern art. Jackson spent nearly seventy years travelling Canada on a lifelong quest to, rendering his impressions of its diverse character on canvas and promoting a vibrant, uniquely Ca... + Read More
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Series: Adelaide Hoodless Paperback Cheryl MacDonald 9781550020175 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 1986

Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She helped turn the Canadian YWCA into a national organization. She founded the Women’s Institute, assisted in the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses and represented Canada on numerous International Councils of Women, as well as establishing the first school f... + Read More
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Series: After the Rebellion The later years of William Lyon Mackenzie Hardcover Lilian F. Gates 9781550020250 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

This comprehensive book on William Lyon Mackenzie’s later life focuses first on the period 1838-1849, Mackenzie’s years in exile in the United States. It examines his contribution to the American political scene, including his role in writing the constitution of the State of New York. The book also chronicles Mackenzie’s life from 1849, when he was granted amnesty and returned to Canada, to his death in 1861. In this, the only comprehensive look at Mackenzie’s life, Lillian Gates offers a meticulous account of one of Canada’s liveliest ninetee... + Read More
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Series: Against All Odds The Story of William Peyton Hubbard: Black Leader and Municipal Reformer Paperback Stephen L. Hubbard 9781550020151 $9.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 1987

The first full-length biography of the popular Toronto politician ("The Cicero of Council") who began his career as a baker and became alderman in the most affluent, white ward of the city; one of the first elected controllers, and finally acting-mayor of Toronto. Hubbard, a reformer on municipal issues, fought for public ownership of the city’s water supply, supported Adam Beck’s campaign for hydro-electric power, and encouraged the creation of a charity for the poor and homeless. He was returned to office 15 times between 1894 and 1914, and b... + Read More
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Series: Agnes Macphail Paperback Rachel Wyatt 9780968360156 $15.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 2000

Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to the House of Commons in Canada, fought for the rights of farmers, for prison reform, for social programs, for peace. She worked all her life for womens equality, and by her own example she inspired other women.
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Series: Alice Munro Paperback Brenda Pfaus 9780919614536 $6.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 01, 1984

Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers. In this unique, intriguing collection, Brenda Pfaus gives fresh insights into some of Munro’s most enduring works: Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), and The Moons of Jupiter (1982). This collection of essays reaches from the early years of Munro’s career through her prime as a writer, when she penned her most influen... + Read More
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Series: Allan Maclean, Jacobite General The life of an eighteenth century career soldier Paperback Mary Beacock Fryer 9781550020113 $12.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 26, 1996

Born on the Isle of Mull to an impoverished lair of the clan Maclean, young Allan fought his first battle — for Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden — from a sense of deep conviction and family loyalty. He fled into exile when the Stuart cause was lost. In Holland he became a mercenary, and after amnesty was granted for Jacobites, he joined the British army serving in North America during the Seven Years’ War, and again during the American Revolution. He was at Quebec on New Year’s Eve 1775 when the city was attacked by Benedict Arnold, and shortl... + Read More
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Series: Almost There The Family Vacation, Then and Now Paperback Curtis Gillespie 9780887629389 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2012

We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter month in Europe, four days in Disneyland. The variations may be endless, but the common denominator is that there are always stories to tell. The family vacation, with all its funny, sad, relaxing, stressful, frustrating, and exhilarating moments, shapes us, and helps us create an understanding of who we are and of those we travel with. In his humourous new book, Almost There, award-winning writer Curti... + Read More
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Series: Am I Sane Yet? An Insider's Look at Mental Illness Paperback John Scully 9781459707863 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2013

Mental illness doesn’t have to be a prison sentence. International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. During this time, he has held down leading jobs with world broadcasters.Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for patients already suffering from depression, as well as for their relatives and friends. It is also a must for those who are hiding their de... + Read More
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Series: Among the Walking Wounded Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD Paperback Colonel John Conrad 9781459735132 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 29, 2017

A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired. In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress disorder has left deep and silent wounds throughout history in the ranks of fighting forces. Among the Walking Wounded tells one veteran’s experience of P... + Read More
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Series: An Aesthetic Underground A Literary Memoir Hardcover John Metcalf 9780887621215 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 04, 2003

In this much-anticipated memoir, Metcalf takes us on a personal journey through his life and those influences that inform his own literary aesthetic. Here is a fascinating story peopled with the likes of Alice Munro, Norman Levine, Ernest Hemingway, John Newlove, Hugh Hood, Keath Fraser, Irving Layton, Mavis Gallant, and many other literary luminaries. By turns humorous and iconoclastic and brimming with intelligence and brio, this highly readable memoir provides much-needed perspective on the art of editing, literary values, and the current st... + Read More
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Series: Another Country, Another Life Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs Paperback J. Patrick Boyer 9781459708402 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2013

A young law clerk from England falls in love in 19th-century New York and reinvents himself in Canada. Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, Another Life, his great-grandson traces that long-h... + Read More
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Series: Another Path to My Garden My Life as a Quadriplegic Paperback Marilyn Noell 9781550021691 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

Marilyn Noell looks back over the past forty-three years of her life as a quadriplegic. Her struggles have been many – fear, depression, surgery, learning to use what "moving parts" remained after her diving accident when she was just nineteen. But perhaps her toughest challenge has been to be and be seen as a useful, active individual.
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Series: Another Winter, Another Spring A Love Remembered Paperback Louise de Kiriline Lawrence 9780920474426 $14.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 1987

Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering.
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Series: Arctic Naturalist The Life of J. Dewey Soper Paperback Anthony Dalton 9781554887460 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2010

Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose in the southwest corner of Baffin Island. He also charted the final unknown region of Baffin Island’s coastline. Later in life he worked in the western Arctic. Outside the Far North, Soper studied bison in Wood Buffalo National Park, documented bird life on the Prairies, and made a detailed study of small m... + Read More
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Series: Battle Diary From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE Paperback Charles Cromwell Martin 9781550022131 $16.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
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Series: Battle Diary From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE Hardcover Charles Cromwell Martin 9781550022148 $16.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 04, 1994

A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
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Series: Stories of Canada Believing in Books The Story of Lillian Smith Hardcover Sydell Waxman 9780929141770 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Dec 01, 2002

Have you ever read a book that you couldn’t put down? Has that book taken you to other countries, to other centuries? Have you found yourself brimming with excitement, exclaiming to all who will listen, "Read this book!" This biography is the story of a child who took her love of childrens’ books and found a way to share it with the world as she grew up. Her voice would be the first to carry the message of childrens’ right to read across the world. It is not too much to say that she started a revolution for children’s books in her career as the... + Read More
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Series: Big League Babble On The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should Be Dead By Now Paperback John Gallagher 9781459739260 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 18, 2017

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest celebrities. Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada and, while he was at it, doing enough drugs to wipe out a small village. Along the way there was plenty of drinking, cavorting, and gallivanting with some of the coolest, biggest, and baddest sports stars and Hollywood ce... + Read More
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Series: Bill Davis Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All Hardcover Steve Paikin 9781459731752 $45.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2016

2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award — WinnerA National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but was also a crucial Trudeau supporter. A biography of one of Ontario’s most important premiers, who, despite having been out of public life for more than thirty years, is remembered fondly by many as the father of the community college system, TVO, OISE, and was indi... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Medical Lives Bill Mustard Surgical Pioneer Hardcover Marilyn Dunlop 9781550020526 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 18, 1989

When WIlliam ("Bill") Mustard graduated from the University of Toronto medical faculty in 1937 at the age of 22, he was the youngest doctor in Canada. During the next four decades he distinguished himself, first as part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the Second World War, then at Toronto’s Hospital For Sick Children, as a surgical pioneer. Mustard remains perhaps the sole surgeon in history to have had two major operations in different fields named after him, both of which he invented. The first, the Mustard Procedure, was a muscle tran... + Read More
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Series: Blue Nose Master The Memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling Paperback Ernest K. Hartling 9780888821140 $14.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 1989

Captain Ernest Hartling, born in Spanish Ship Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1906, takes us on a voyage through a life crammed with adventure, colour, and excitement.
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Series: Bon Echo The Denison Years Paperback Mary Savigny 9781896219301 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 15, 1997

Bon Echo: The Denison Years documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake Mazinaw area in Ontario’s rugged Land O’ Lakes district, to both play and work. From the construction of Bon Echo Inn by American Dr. Weston Price to the creation of today’s Bon Echo Provincial Park, the author has been privy to the "inside" story. The struggles and ideals of the early Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison and her author-playwright son, Merrill, are well recorded in this importan... + Read More
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Series: Born Again My Journey from Fundamentalism to Freedom Hardcover Tom Harpur 9780887627385 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 12, 2011

The search for meaning in our time of change and upheaval continues unabated. Tom Harpur, the bestselling author of The Pagan Christ and Water Into Wine, has been at the forefront of this modern challenge to humankind’s spiritual identity. His radical and ground-breaking book The Pagan Christ touched the lives of thousands of seekers. With Born Again: My Journey from Fundamentalism to Freedom he tells us the story of his own search and the result is a compelling spiritual odyssey, the story of one man’s escape from the narrow grip of religious ... + Read More
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Series: Born Again My Journey from Fundamentalism to Freedom Paperback Tom Harpur 9781459740235 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 09, 2017

Tom Harpur’s compelling spiritual journey from fundamentalism to mass media. Tom Harpur, the late author and host of numerous radio and television programs, was at the forefront of the modern challenge to humankind’s spiritual identity. His radical and ground-breaking book The Pagan Christ touched the lives of thousands of seekers. In Born Again, he tells the story of his own search for spiritual understanding, and the result is a spiritual odyssey, the story of one man’s escape from the narrow grip of religious fundamentalism. Born into an Iri... + Read More
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Series: Boy from Nowhere A Life in Ninety-One Countries Hardcover Allan Fotheringham 9781459701687 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 25, 2011

As one of Canada’s pre-eminent newspaper and magazine journalists, Allan Fotheringham has met everybody from Bobby Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau to The Beatles and Nelson Mandela. Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed "Dr. Foth," Fotheringhamgraduated from the University of British Columbia andhas worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media, the Globe and Mail, and most notably as a long-time columnist for Maclean’s.His c... + Read More
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Series: Breakfast at the Hoito And Other Adventures in the Boreal Heartland 2nd Printing Paperback Charles Wilkins 9781896219332 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2001

Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior’s north shore … on wilds and wildlife, people and places. Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay. Discover the secret life of ravens; the passions of the blueberry picker; the thrills and fears of the novice ice climber. Tour Silver Islet, an eccentric summer community that has evolved from the relics of what was once the world’s richest silver mine; and the town of Schreiber, half of whose 2,000 res... + Read More
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Series: Brown of the Globe Volume Two: Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880 Paperback J.M.S. Careless 9781550020519 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at its most critical stage. This second volume traces the sectional conflict that brought political deadlock by 1864 and makes clear Brown’s vital function in finding a way out. It also sets out in meticulous detail his career after leaving party membership in 1867. This comprehensive two-volume... + Read More
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Series: Brown of the Globe Volume One: Voice of Upper Canada 1818-1859 Paperback J.M.S. Careless 9781550020502 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

The Voice of Upper Canada 1818-1859 (volume 1) deals with the founding of the Globe, with Brown’s entry into Parilament, his attmepts to reconstitute the Liberal Party, his feud with macdonald and his election triumphs and disasters ending in 1859.
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Series: Buckskin and Broadcloth A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson — Tekahionwake, 1861-1913 Paperback Sheila M.F. Johnston 9781896219202 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 1997

This is the first generously illustrated biography of the Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake. The author has created an exciting volume of anecdotes, letters and poetry, and illustrated it with period photographs and new illustrations by the Six Nations artist, Raymond R. Skye. While the story of Pauline Johnson has been told before, it has never been given the intimacy that this book provides. Tracing her ancestry, moving on to explore her extraordinary stage career, and finally shedding light on Pauline Johnson’s last year... + Read More
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Series: Burning Down the House Fighting Fires and Losing Myself Paperback Russell Wangersky 9780887624100 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 12, 2009

Winner of the 2009 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare.Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience that wound up reaching into every facet of his life and changed the way he saw the world forever. Written in vibrant, luminous prose, the book traces his years from rookie to... + Read More
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Series: Burning Down the House Fighting Fires and Losing Myself Hardcover Russell Wangersky 9780887623295 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2008

Winner of the 2009 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare.Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience that wound up reaching into every facet of his life and changed the way he saw the world forever. Written in vibrant, luminous prose, the book traces his years from rookie to... + Read More
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Series: Call Me True A Biography of True Davidson Paperback Eleanor Darke 9781896219349 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 1997

In this investigation of the life and varied careers of True Davidson, Eleanor Darke seeks to discover what can be "truly said about True" – a fascinating and contradictory woman who was always ahead of her time. "There was no quitter in her make-up and she fought like a banshee for whatever she believed in – which was people, truth, Canada. People either loved her or loathed her. None was indifferent. All her life True Davidson stood for human values. And traditions. Her courage and integrity knew no limit. She didn’t make a cent from politic... + Read More
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Series: Canada from Afar The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries Paperback David Twiston-Davies 9781550022520 $16.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 25, 1996

Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as Margaret Laurence, Joey Smallwood, K.C. Irving, Raymond Burr and A.J. Casson.
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Series: Canadian Folk Portraits of Remarkable Lives Paperback Peter Unwin 9781459710276 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2013

An amusing collection of lives and stories from the eccentric side of Canada’s history. A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners, millionaires in ill-advised Citroen half-tracks. The restless characters who spanned those miles and who fill the pages of this book were fuelled by the ambitions, the dou... + Read More
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Series: Stories of Canada Caring for a Colony The Story of Jeanne Mance Hardcover Joanna Emery 9781894917070 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 01, 2005

This is a story of pioneering courage and compassion in the New World. Jeanne dreamed of devoting her life to caring for others. In 1641, she courageously gave up her comfortable middle-class life in France to journey to the French colonies, today’s province of Quebec. In overcoming incredible hardships, massacres, illness, deprivation and seven gruelling trips across the ocean, Jeanne proved to be a remarkable leader. She ended up founding the first hospital in Montreal as well as being a pioneer and founder of the city of Montreal.
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Series: Celtic Woman A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey Paperback Treasa O'Driscoll 9780978160029 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 30, 2008

Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d expect. This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page. Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. O’Driscoll’s life... + Read More
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Series: Champlain Peacemaker and Explorer Paperback Mary Beacock Fryer 9781554889402 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15 Jul 13, 2011

Samuel de Champlain has long been known as the founder of Quebec and as a tireless explorer. No one knows for sure where he was born or who he really was. Still, his career was packed with interesting details and his early life prepared him for greatness.Without Champlains own detailed records, the years 1600 to 1640 in Canada would be almost a mystery. Possibly Canadas first multicultural advocate, he dreamed of creating a new people from French and Aboriginal roots. However, his efforts to establish a colony encountered setbacks in France. Am... + Read More
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Series: Stories of Canada Changing the Pattern The Story of Emily Stowe Paperback Sydell Waxman 9780929141398 $13.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Feb 01, 1998

When Emily Stowe was born in Ontario in 1831, every girl’s life followed a set pattern. Regardless of her personality, intelligence, capabilities or creativity, her future was limited to housework and childcare. Emily Stowe was determined to change that pattern. Sydell Waxman, a writer, researcher and lecturer on women of the 1800s, tells of the events in the life of the young Emily Stowe which caused her to become, not only the first woman school principal and the first woman to practise medicine in Canada, but a pioneer in the fight for women... + Read More
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Series: Stories of Canada Changing the Pattern The Story of Emily Stowe Hardcover Sydell Waxman 9780929141435 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 1996

When Emily Stowe was born in Ontario in 1831, every girl’s life followed a set pattern. Regardless of her personality, intelligence, capabilities or creativity, her future was limited to housework and childcare. Emily Stowe was determined to change that pattern. Sydell Waxman, a writer, researcher and lecturer on women of the 1800s, tells of the events in the life of the young Emily Stowe which caused her to become, not only the first woman school principal and the first woman to practise medicine in Canada, but a pioneer in the fight for women... + Read More
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Series: Charles de Salaberry Soldier of the Empire, Defender of Quebec Paperback J. Patrick Wohler 9780919670761 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 1996

Charles de Salaberry (1778-1829) was a brilliant military figure who played a vital role in the War of 1812. A French-Canadian, he attained both rank and honour in the British army. He was a hero of Chateauguay and instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Voltigeurs and a respected advocate of French-Canadian rights. This book paints a vivid picture of a man whose pride and honour were part of an ancient family tradition, whose accomplishments were unique in the history of Lower Canada.