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  • Cultural Traditions in Canada

    Cultural Traditions in Canada

    $10.95

    Canada’s cultural traditions are pictured in this lovely full colour book for younger children.

    • ISBN: 9780778703129
    • Author: Molly Aloian
    • 32 pages
    • Ages 6-9
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  • 9780888628725

    Danger on the Tracks (Bains Family Book 6)

    $9.99

    Set against a historical background of great technological change, Danger on the Tracks is the story of one family’s courage and adaptability in the face of great hardship. The book includes a photo section illustrating the contemporary history of the London area and its early railway development.

    • ISBN: 9780888628725
    • Author: Bill Freeman
    • 171 pages
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Sale! Dear Canada: All Fall Down

    Dear Canada: All Fall Down

    Original price was: $16.99.Current price is: $13.50.

    A young girl survives the deadliest natural disaster in Canadian history — but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the tragedy.

    • ISBN: 9781443119191
    • Author: Jean Little
    • 220 pages
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Dear Canada: Alone in an Untamed Land

    Dear Canada: Alone in an Untamed Land

    $13.50

    New France is a far harsher place than Hélène imagined, with bitter winters and the threat of attack from the Iroquois. Will the few friendships she made on the long journey enable her to survive?

    • ISBN: 9780439989695
    • Author: Maxine Trottier
    • 244 pages
    • Ages: 8-12, 12+
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  • Delta Is My HomeDelta is my Home Inside

    Delta Is My Home

    $16.95

    The Delta is My Home is narrated by eleven-year-old Tom McLeod, a young Gwich-in and Inuvialuktun boy from Aklavik, a small town located in the Mackenzie Delta. It tells the story from the First Nations perspective.

    Tom tells why he loves the land, and what special things his family does to live off the land. Beautiful photographs and engaging text make this a valuable picture book for all ages.

    • ISBN: 9781897252321
    • Author: Tom McLeod and Mindy Willett
    • 25 pages
    • Ages: 5-7, 8-12
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  • Discovering Canada Bundle

    Discovering Canada Bundle

    $155.00

    Save $10

    Purchase all eleven books in the Discovering Canada series and save.

    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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  • Discovering Canada: Black Heritage

    Discovering Canada: Black Heritage

    $14.95

    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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  • Discovering Canada: Fur Traders

    Discovering Canada: Fur Traders

    $14.95

    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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  • Discovering Canada: The Great War

    Discovering Canada: Great War

    $14.95

    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.

    • 90 pages
    • Ages: 8-12
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  • Discovering Canada: The Loyal Refugees

    Discovering Canada: Loyal Refugees

    $14.95

    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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  • Discovering Canada: The Mounties

    Discovering Canada: Mounties

    $14.95

    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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  • Discovering Canada: Native Peoples

    Discovering Canada: Native Peoples

    $14.95

    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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