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How To Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson Publisher Comments It isn’t always easy being Canadian, according to Will Ferguson, but it can be a lot of fun. Asked to write a follow-up to his runaway bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, Ferguson, who’s Canadian himself, recruited his brother Ian — comedy... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Day the World Came To Town by Jim Defede Publisher Comments This is the moving story of a community who opened its homes to more than 6,000 stranded airline passengers on 9/11/01. "The Day the World Came to Town" is a timeless and heartwarming account of the citizens of Gander, and the unexpected guests who were... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Champlain's Dream by David Fischer Publisher Comments In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's Atlantic... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes by John Robert Colombo Publisher Comments There has long been a rumour going around that Canadians aren't funny. Well, John Robert Colombo has assembled a comprehensive collection of Canadian humour that is sure to dispel this rumour for once and for all. At once scandalous, subversive and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Female Enterprise in the 'New Economy' by Karen D Hughes Book News Annotation Hughes (business, U. of Alberta, Canada) considers the question of whether a more entrepreneurial economy in Canada gives women better opportunities for economic success or if it increases the risk of poverty and economic insecurity. She draws on data... (read more) List Price $78.25 Your price: $33.25 Used - Hardcover 
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Competing Against America: Why Canada Has Fallen Behind in the Race for Talent and Wealth by Michael Alexander Publisher Comments Competing Against America In this provocative and hard-hitting book, Michael Alexander has a direct and unflinching message for all Canadians: our standard of living is in free fall, and has been for almost 25 years. Currently, Canada's standard of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.63 Used - Hardcover
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High River and the ; an Alberta Community and Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966. by Paul Voisey Publisher Comments Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in Alberta and, under the ownership of the Charles Clark family, established itself as the epitome of a rural weekly... (read more) Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Close for Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments Canada’s greatest advocate considers our place in Bush’s world order. Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was “open for business,” has there been such a push... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lake Louise at It's Best: An Affectionate Look at Life at Lake Louise by One Who Knew It Well by Roger Patillo Publisher Comments A personal history of one of the world's most beautiful spots - Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry Into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 That Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 by Denis Vaugeois Publisher Comments He looks at the same events from three different perspectives - as empirical facts, in their legal interpretation, and as the subject of debates by historians. The result is an intriguing detective story with unexpected twists and surprising revelations.... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland by John Mack Faragher Publisher Comments On 25 August 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been our secret Enemies..." John Mack Faragher tells the story of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Canadian Politics Unplugged by Eric Nicol Publisher Comments Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged bravely breaks new ground in ignoring this question. The book concentrates on the central problem of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State by Jennifer Reid Publisher Comments Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the aboriginal... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Indigenous Difference & the Consti.of CA by Patrick Macklem Publisher Comments There is a unique constitutional relationship between Aboriginal people and the Canadian state - a relationship that does not exist between other Canadians and the state. It's from this central premise that Patrick Macklem builds his argument in this... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Fort St. Joseph by Graeme S Mount Publisher Comments In 1812 Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle: its garrison attacked and captured the American Fort Mackinac, thus ensuring British control of the Upper Great Lakes for the duration of the War of 1812. After the war, the fort was abandoned, but has since... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Marching as to War: Canada's Turbulent Years 1899-1953 by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments I have called this period Canada's Turbulent Years - turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages by Richard Harris Book News Annotation The 12 chapters presented by Harris (economics, Simon Fraser U., Canada) and Lemieux (economics, U. of British Columbia, Canada) are an outgrowth a workshop dedicated to social and labor market aspects of North American economic integration and... (read more) List Price $88.95 Your price: $11.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Montreal Then and Now: D'Hier Et D'Aujourd'hui by Alan Hustak Publisher Comments Considered North America's most "European" city, Montreal is known for its culture, sophisticated population and its amazing architectural history. The latest title in the hugely popular Then and Now series takes readers to Quebec's charming capital city... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Letters of a Lifetime Susanna Moodie by Carl Ballstadt Publisher Comments First published in 1985, this volume of letters follows Susanna Moodie from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. The letters provide a... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave by Daniel Hays Publisher Comments After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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