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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Sidney Crosby	Matt Doeden	"Presents the athletic biography of Sidney Crosby, including his career as a high school and professional hockey player"--Provided by publisher.	OL16134736W
Naming Canada	Alan Rayburn	"This wonderful collection of seventy-six essays explores the fascinating origin and meaning of the names of some of the towns, villages, cities, islands, mountains, and rivers that make up one of th…	OL1679246W
Some day the sun will shine and have not will be no more	A. Brian Peckford	This memoir begins with Mr. Peckford's formative years growing up in outport Newfoundland. It gives all due praise to personal heroes of his, from the seasoned fishermen of La Poile and Pilley's Isla…	OL17855787W
Northern visions	Kenneth Coates,Kerry M. Abel	"Canadian nationalists in the nineteenth century argued that the North, with its extremes of winter, distance, and isolation, defined the country's essential character and gave its population the res…	OL18251027W
Where are the voices coming from?	Coral Ann Howells	"This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is bot…	OL18365626W
Saving the Canadian city, the first phase 1880-1920: An anthology of early articles on urban reform…	Paul Rutherford	xxiii, 366 p. ; 22 cm. --	OL19358845W
Not my girl	Christy Jordan-Fenton	Looks at the experiences of a young Inuit girl returning from a residential religious school, where she is not recognized by her mother and is seen as an outsider. Margaret's years at school have ch…	OL19975545W
Innocent heroes	Sigmund Brouwer	Never before have the stories of animal war heroes been collected in such a special way. This book consists of eight connected fictional stories about a Canadian platoon in WW1. Each story is follow…	OL20059811W
The story of Canada	Janet Lunn,Alan Daniel	From the epic journeys into the unknown by the first people who crossed the Berring land bridge thousands of years ago to Roberta Bondar's landmark voyage into space, The Story of Canada is as vast i…	OL20070079W
Now You Know Canada	Doug Lennox	206 pages ; 23 cm	OL20215937W
The French and Indian War	Don Rauf	128 pages : 24 cm	OL20474892W
Innovation Nation	Tom Jenkins,David Johnston	127 pages : 27 cm	OL21151213W
Bringing Children and Youth into Canadian History	Oxford	xx, 465 pages : 23 cm	OL21233862W
Reluctant Warriors	Patrick M. Dennis	xvii, 311 pages : 24 cm	OL21325297W
Strangers in blood	Brown,Jennifer S. H. Brown	Describes the social world of the traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examines differences between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and their effects on Indian-white relations.	OL2956120W
The rebels of Hastings	Betsy Dewar Boyce	"This is an account of the Rebellion of 1837 as it involved people in the eastern part of Upper Canada, especially around the Bay of Quinte and with particular attention to Hastings County. It was p…	OL3794170W
Mahalia Jackson	Montrew Dunham	“Haley” Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting alligators along the Mississippi River for food and gathering driftwood for fuel with her brother Peter. But every Sunday, whe…	OL515580W
Dixie & the Dominion	Adam Mayers	In 1864 the war had entered its third year, and the battle momentum had shifted towards the North. A Union victory seemed imminent. Desperate to keep the Confederate dream alive, Southern leaders con…	OL5777702W
Flashback Canada	J. Bradley Cruxton	"Covers the Rebellions of 1837, Confederation, the opening of the West, and the changes in Canadian society at the turn of the twentieth century".	OL6383477W
Manliness and Militarism	Mark Moss	"Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Cana…	OL8006065W