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ISBN: 9780888645142 - Baba's Kitchen Medicines Baba's Kitchen Medicines
Michael Mucz

ISBN10: 0888645147  ISBN13: 9780888645142
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2012
Presents the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this title presents a compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics. Michael Mucz's prolonged primary... More

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ISBN: 9781927051276 - Kilts on the Coast Kilts on the Coast
Jan Peterson

ISBN10: 1927051274  ISBN13: 9781927051276
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2012
When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise. This title focuses on events and people who sparked settlement and growth in... More

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ISBN: 9781442611092 - The Loyal Atlantic The Loyal Atlantic
Jerry Bannister, Liam Riordan

ISBN10: 144261109X  ISBN13: 9781442611092
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Apr 2012
Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus. Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history... More

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ISBN: 9780773538917 - Contemporary Quebec Contemporary Quebec
Michael D Behiels, Matthew Hayday

ISBN10: 0773538917  ISBN13: 9780773538917
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Feb 2012
A compelling and informative overview of Quebec's evolution over the past several decades In the last seventy years, Quebec has changed from a society dominated by the social edicts of the Catholic Church and the economic interests of Anglophone... More

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ISBN: 9781550175332 - Chuck Davis' History of Metropolitan Vancouver Chuck Davis' History of Metropolitan Vancouver
Chuck Davis

ISBN10: 1550175335  ISBN13: 9781550175332
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Feb 2012
Written by one of Vancouver's most successful and beloved journalists and broadcasters, this volume represents the culmination of his life as a folk historian, someone who was obsessed and delighted by all things Vancouver, and of his immense... More

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ISBN: 9781550175370 - Texada Tapestry Texada Tapestry
Heather Harbord

ISBN10: 1550175378  ISBN13: 9781550175370
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Feb 2012
Texada is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia, a long strip of richly mineralised granite and limestone dividing the upper gulf. Travel time from Vancouver is six hours via three ferries. A newcomer's first impression is of an idyllic... More

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ISBN: 9781550175394 - Kelowna Story Kelowna Story
Sharron J Simpson

ISBN10: 1550175394  ISBN13: 9781550175394
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2012
Covers the full sweep of central Okanagan history, starting with the days of the S-Ookanhkchinx, who enjoyed a largely peaceful existence along the shores of the lakes and rivers before the earliest explorers came to trade, followed by Father... More

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ISBN: 9781894759649 - Good Hope Cannery Good Hope Cannery
W B MacDonald

ISBN10: 1894759648  ISBN13: 9781894759649
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2012
In 1895 Scottish entrepreneur, engineer, and outdoor adventurer Henry Ogle Bell-Irving built the Good Hope Cannery in Rivers Inlet, BC. This book tells the story of the people who built it, worked in it, fished for it, maintained it... More

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ISBN: 9781554889877 - From Far & Wide From Far & Wide
Peter Pigott

ISBN10: 1554889871  ISBN13: 9781554889877
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jan 2012
Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands & waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britain's Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago. More

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ISBN: 9781554889792 - Chinese in Toronto from 1878 Chinese in Toronto from 1878
Arlene Chan

ISBN10: 1554889790  ISBN13: 9781554889792
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jan 2012
The arrival of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown owes its modest beginnings to the completion of the CPR in 1885. This title tells their stories through historical accounts, archival and photographs, newspaper clippings... More