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Maps used in this book highlight Canada’s exploration and settlement history from the migration of the First Peoples to the creation of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.
- ISBN: 9780919972933
- Author: George Quinn
- 48 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Cry, the Beloved Country, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
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Cross-referenced in Courage and Conquest: Discovering Canadian History. Included in the All Inclusive History Bundle.
- ISBN: 9780123452320
- Author: Robert Livesey
- Ages: 8-12
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The story of Canada’s Black heritage is filled with important events and amazing people who helped shape the country’s history and culture – people like Rose Fortune, North America’s first policewoman; Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railway’s legendary ‘conductor’; newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd; Elijah McCoy, the brilliant inventor who was ‘the real McCoy’; Alberta cowboy John Ware; and Fergie Jenkins, the first Canadian elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- ISBN: 9781550051377
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Enter the world of First Nations and fur traders – when the quest for beaver pelts was opening up the Canadian frontier. Join Pierre Radisson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and other adventurers as they venture into territory that would become Canada.
- ISBN: 9780773753044
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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The Great War (1914-1918) inspired courageous heroes and established a proud Canadian nationalism, but it was a devastating event that killed or maimed almost half of Canada’s brave soldiers in battles such as Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and the final 100 days.
Young readers will discover Canada’s part in the first great worldwide conflict. They will learn about life in the trenches, the first tanks, u-boats and convoys, aces and dog fights, machine guns and cavalry charges, gas warfare, as well as the drastic changes in women’s roles.
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The American Revolution frequently turned neighbour against neighbour, brother against brother, and father against son. By the end of the conflict, more than seventy thousand former residents of the Thirteen Colonies left or lost their homes. Most headed north to the Canadian wilderness. Although they too, wanted independent and democratic rights, they believed in law, order, and loyalty to Britain.
- ISBN: 9780773760431
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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The Mounties presents the amazing stories of such larger-than-life figures as James Macleod, an officer who befriended the powerful Blackfoot chief, Crowfoot; James Morrow Walsh, who won the trust of Sitting Bull when he arrived in Canada after the massacre at Little Big Horn; Jerry Potts, the famous Métis scout and interpreter; and Sam Steele, the superintendent who kept the peace during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- ISBN: 9781550051353
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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This addition to the exciting, innovative Discovering Canada series brings to life the time before the white European settlers “discovered” Canada, when only the original native peoples lived here.
Who were these peoples? Where did they live? What were their legends and myths, famous heroes?
- ISBN: 9780773756021
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Meet some of the brave men and women who first settled the New World and helped found the colony of New France – Cartier, Marie La Tour, La Salle and Madeleine de Vercheres. Find out how they worked, dressed, ate and survived in their adopted land. Read about the King’s Daughters, who came over from Europe on Bride’s Ships, and about the powerful seigneurs, who ruled vast domains along the St. Lawrence River.
- ISBN: 9780773753419
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Although Canada’s citizens are usually thought of as law-abiding and loyal to authority, there have been some notable and powerful rebels. From fiery spirits such as William Lyon Mackenzie and Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, to men and women who simply defied social convention, Canada’s rebels have had a strong impact on its growth as a nation.
- ISBN: 9780773761704
- Author: Robert Livesey
- 90 pages
- Ages: 8-12