epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Michael Winter [Winter, Michael]

BEES IN CELLOPHANE I bicycled back to Beaumont-Hamel. The trees appeared on the horizon and I coasted down the quiet paved road towards them. I turned in at the now ...

epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Edmund Metatawabin [Metatawabin, Edmund]

We named her Albalina. It is a name that everyone likes as soon as you say it. I read it in a story in one of those Life magazines, about ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:William Avery Bishop [Bishop, William A.]

Chapter XII The first few days in May we spent escorting machines taking photographs. It was rather exciting work, for several times we went very long distances into Hunland and ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Jerry Langton

The sudden shifts of alliances in the Lower Mainland's underworld were not limited to those gangs in league with the Hells Angels. The Bacon Brothers, perhaps sensing the impending legal ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Keri, Jonah [Keri, Jonah]

Out of the owner’s box and onto the mound: Charles Bronfman’s uniform number 83 is in honour of the Seagram’s whiskey. The beloved grin of Gary Carter, “The Kid.” After ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Michael Ignatieff

In September 2008, after two and a half years in power, Mr. Harper decided that his attack ads against our leader had softened up the electoral terrain sufficiently to allow ...

epub |eng | 2008-08-23 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-03-18 | Author:Richard J. Gwyn

That Britain might, if not actually abandon Canada, then gently but firmly pull itself back from a close embrace in order to position itself nearer to the United States, challenges ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:John Boyko [Boyko, John]

CHICAGO The American peace movement, spearheaded by the anti-Lincoln machinations of Thompson and the Copperheads, had sputtered as the Union made successful military advances in 1863, but it was revived ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Alison Loat [Loat, Alison]

DESPITE THESE OCCASIONALLY positive sentiments, the former MPs expressed great antipathy for partisan melodramatics and were deeply concerned at how the public perceives politicians in Canada. “Citizens … have the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

3 Completing the arsenal of howitzers, guns, and mortars was the deadliest weapon of all – the one that had transformed warfare. The heavy, water-cooled Vickers machine gun and the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Pierre Berton

The Battle of Stoney Creek The American commander, Brigadier-General John Chandler, a former blacksmith, tavernkeeper and congressman, owes his appointment to political influence rather than military experience, of which he ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Pierre Berton

2 The displaced people The whole country marvelled, that spring and summer of 1883, over the feat of building the railway across the prairies in just fifteen months – everybody, ...

mobi |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Pierre Berton

Chapter Seven The Passing of the Old Order 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure 2 The new era 3 The Indian dilemma 4 The Imperial Force 1 Sifton’s mysterious departure Nineteen hundred ...