1997 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1961 von 1980.

Fryer encompasses 300 years of history highlighting 16 of the most significant Canadian battles, including Batoche, Louisbourg, and the Plains of Abraham.

The World's Most Mysterious Places is a fascinating collection of stories about lost lands, weird locations, and strange sites.

Barney Danson, former Minister of National Defence, tells his story of living through the Depression and the reality of war.

The Empress of Ireland's last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues.In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents - Salvation Army officers who were lost on the Empress - and the lives of their five orphaned children who would soon be plunged into World War I. His discoveri...

A history of the tens of thousands of children who emigrated from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada.

It's no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy, but outside her family, no one knows the depth of her mental illness.

A collection of 69 Ontario stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie experiences.

Saskatchewans spirits haunt its weathered prairie farmhouses, its nondescript suburban bungalows, and its very landscape.

A comprehensive collection of supernatural tales drawn from the provinces history, its archives, and its people.

Rebecca Temple meets a Polish count who has written a novel based on his family, which he claims is descended from royalty, then finds him dead and his manuscript missing.

This tribute examines the life of this outstanding personality and monarch, with emphasis on her Canadian experiences.

More than just the story of Charles Best's discovery of insulin, this is the tale of an extraordinary couple, told through diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Canadians visit chiropractors about 30 million times a year, and surveys show that patients are generally satisfied with their treatment. But studies also show that as many as two hundred Canadians a year suffer strokes brought on by neck manipulation. Spin Doctors takes a hard, dramatic, and spine-chilling look into the world of chiropractic medicine. You will be surprised to learn what chiropractors treat and why and how much it costs you as...

The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100, 000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony's farm-labour shortage. They were kn...

A study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812.

Its high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers.

Feeling guilty over his loss of faith, Gideon Gast doesn't know where he is, but he has a good idea how he got there.

Vikkan Lantry, a pianist with more talent than ambition, is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music. Her mysterious past ushers him into an intrigue that begins with a song cycle composed by Schumann and ends in a grisly double murder.

Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village, " and "the medium is the message.

A Canadian astronomer commits suicide on a desolate mountain peak in Hawaii, and Morgan O'Brien is sent to the observatory to find his missing data.