epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Gwynne Dyer [Dyer, Gwynne]

Right down through 1941, the war went splendidly well for Mackenzie King. The political situation at home had stabilized, and very few Canadians were getting hurt in the war. In ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Merle Massie

Commercial Fishing Overland freighting tied in with burgeoning commercial fisheries. In fact, the growth of fishing as a commercial enterprise led to an intriguing shift in freighting contracts. Hauling fish ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Brian Douglas Tennyson

2. By way of comparison, Australia, with a population of 4 million—about half that of Canada—raised 421,809 men, representing 38.7% of its male population between the ages of eighteen and ...

epub |eng | 2006-06-08 | Author:Rudy Wiebe [Wiebe, Rudy]

Her first desire is for a “pretty little cottage,” but one wish fulfilled can never be enough for the woman: the next is for a big stone castle; then she ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Farley Mowat

Late in the summer of 1982 Claire and I were guests aboard a Canadian ice breaker bringing an official party to Greenland to help commemorate the one thousandth anniversary of ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Marquis, Thomas Guthrie [Marquis, Thomas Guthrie]

CHAPTER VI THE MARTYRS We have observed that the Hurons were at war with the Five Nations and that Iroquois scalping parties haunted the river routes and the trails to ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Rex Murphy [Murphy, Rex]

A JOINT IS A SMOKE | Novemeber 27, 2004 Social pressure accounts for the decline of smoking. It is surely not the risible Health Canada public-service messages, or the extravagantly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Howard Blum [Blum, Howard]

Mamie, Siringo’s “child bride,” and their daughter, Viola (A Cowboy Detective, 1912) Bluff Creek Bridge was the landmark signaling that a hurrah cowtown was a short ride ahead. It was ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Susan Smith-Josephy

Stories of a Russian Countess Dietger Hollmann, an amateur historian who followed Lillian Alling’s trail to the Atlin area in the late autumn of 1970, met with Jim Grant, owner ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Barris, Ted [Barris, Ted]

* * * * Paul Brickhill was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia; during the war, he was shipped to Canada to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:H. W. McBride

Well, there were we, safe enough for the moment, but the sergeant was doing some heavy thinking. It was something like this; “If we just stay here and wait, it ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Aaron Chapman

Sandy King rides as Lady Godiva, mid-1970s. But King has nothing but fond memories of the club which elicit her quick laugh and vivid recollections of the nights she worked ...

epub |eng, eng, fra | 2014-08-13 | Author:Chris Benjamin

Older girls worked the kitchen, where survivors remember many accidents.Sisters of Charity, Halifax, Congregational Archives Knockwood remembers witnessing a young girl nearly lose her hand in a gruesome encounter with ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Will R. Bird

CHAPTER VII In a German Trench We found a little estaminet between our village and Bourecq, a small house managed by a gaunt, bony-faced woman with eye sockets like a ...