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This colourful story of one town's library provides material enough for a movie as it reveals universal patterns about love of reading and battles for books while librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists, and avid book readers mix it up for more than century.
Meg Wilkinson, Canada's first woman veterinarian, leaves her Halifax practice after a tragedy in her private life and heads to Yukon Territory, drawn by the sled dogs she has come to admire. When she arrives in Dawson City in 1897, the exciting and tumultuous gold rush is just getting underway.
This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer's passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.
A feud that began in the Muskoka's backwoods comes to a dramatic climax with precedent-setting events in the House of Commons at Ottawa after a partisan Tory returning officer uses a technicality to make no return of the Liberal candidate as the district's elected MP in the 1872 general election.
What's in a name? Personal misfortune, or so it would appear if your name happens to be "Flam Grub." This touching contemporary fable shows how our lives are entwined with our names--and how our destinies are never certain.Full of humour and sadness, quirky wit, and quiet moments of beauty, Flam Grub tells the tale of a young man's misadventures and his retreat to the security of reading books, work in a bookstore, and a career as an undertaker--until fame unexpectedly comes his way.Both an endearing tale and a shrewd send-up of contemporary life, Flam Grub is the second book from the rich imagination and skillful pen of new Canadian author Dan Dowhal.
In the 1870s in Ontario's Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir four years before his death in 1938.
When impoverished, poorly educated aboriginals find a modern revolutionary leader, their well-armed attack on vulnerable energy installations sends the Armed Forces scrambling and politicians reeling.
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