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Over two dozen of the very best mystery short stories from crime-fiction's maestro, Peter Robinson. Set in places as far flung as Inspector Alan Banks's turf in Yorkshire, Robinson's own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida, these stories also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England in 1873, to Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and to a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War. 2020.
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A history of the Hudson's Bay Company which started out small in 1670, trading manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous population of subarctic Canada. It eventually expanded to the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest.
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Souvenir catalogue volume 24
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Examines the Hundred Days campaign that contributed decisively to ending the First World War.
12) Bluebird
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1917: Corporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion, he finds himself in a Belgium field hospital under the care of Adele Savard, one of Canada's nursing sisters, nicknamed "Bluebirds" for their blue gowns and white caps. As Jerry recovers, he forms a strong connection with Adele, who is from a place near his hometown...
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An examination of Canada's involvement in the Vietnam War through the lens of six participants. The people include Brigadier General Sherwood Lett, Canadian diplomat Blair Seaborn, activist Claire Culhane, draft dodger Joe Erickson, Canadian Doug Carey who fought with the American forces, and refugee Rebecca Trinh who fled Saigon to come to Canada.
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A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart. With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of...
18) River woman
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"Governor General's Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of our preconceptions...
20) Hiraeth: poems
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Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible- and always necessary. It documents a journey of struggle that pertains to a dark point in Canadian history that few talk about and of which even fewer seem aware. Poems speak to the 1960's "scoop up" of children and how this affected the lives of (one or thousands) of First Nations and Métis girls- girls who later...
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