Posts Tagged ‘history’
Unforgettable Ontario
Unforgettable Ontario explores Ontario at its best. This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates 100 of the communities, events and festivals that help to make a visit to Ontario unforgettable. Author Noel Hudson reflects the province’s rich cultural and geographic diversity as he travels Ontario’s countryside, from its villages, towns and cities to cottage country and the…
Read MoreWaterfalls of Ontario
Praise for previous editions: “A very practical guidebook to exploring 80 different provincial waterfalls… A coffee table book on one hand, a guidebook on the other… nicely balanced, organized and provocative.” –Toronto Star “It’s rare to have a book that’s so user friendly, packed with information yet beautiful enough to hold its own on the…
Read MoreHalifax Explosion
The Secret Sister
The true story of a woman who uncovered the dramatic stories of her mother and sisters with the help of the award-winning television programme, Long Lost Family.
Read More21 Things you may not know about The Indian Act
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer.Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities…
Read MoreA Very English Scandal
Now in paperback, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, his bad behavior went under the radar…
Read MoreEnlightenment Now
An assessment of the human condition in the twenty-first century presents data demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise throughout the world because of the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
Read MoreThe Girl who Smiled Beads
It was 1994, and in 100 days, more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and sister Claire spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety and hiding while witnessing unimaginable cruelty. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in…
Read MoreDouble Threat
“He died so Jewry should suffer no more.” These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier’stombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of Canadian Jews in the wareffort. As PM Mackenzie King wrote in 1947, Jewish servicemen faced a “doublethreat” – they were not only fighting against Fascism but for Jewish survival. At…
Read MoreDon’t Let My Past Be Your Future
‘Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society’ Jeremy Corbyn THIS A CALL TO ARMS FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW: DON’T LET THE PAST BECOME OUR FUTURE Harry Leslie Smith is a great British stalwart. A survivor of the Great Depression, a Second…
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