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 ...

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 ...