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Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality
Agnes Macphail, Canada's first woman MP, is a heroine for our times: an accomplished politician, committed feminist and a complex, well-rounded human being.$16.95, Paperback
Micmac by Choice
Micmac by Choice is the inspiring account of a remarkable woman and of the remarkable community she chose as her home.$24.95, Paperback
Music of our Times
Canada's singer-songwriters have won national and international recognition for their achievements. Remarkably, this is the first book about them and their work.$16.95, Paperback
Crowfoot
Crowfoot, a Blood Indian who became chief of the Blackfoot Nation, was a great warrior and peacemaker during the time of settlement of the Canadian West.$27.95, Paperback
Escape from the Nazis
Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war he one concern - survival.$35.00, Hardcover
Memoirs of a Mountain Man
Andy Russell has been a trapper, cowboy, bronco-buster, trail guide, grizzly hunter, nature photographer and filmmaker, lecturer, and fighter for the environment. This is the story of the adventures he has experienced as a trail guide in Western Canada.$27.95, Paperback
Richard Hatfield
When New Brunswick Liberals crushed Richard Hatfield's Conservative government in the1987 election, winning every seat in the legislature, it marked the end of a high-flying political career comprehending everything from high-performance sports cars to ignominious drug busts.$9.95, Paperback
Close to Charisma
Patrick Gossage went to work for Pierre Trudeau as a press secretary in 1976. "You were so green," Trudeau reminisced years later. That very innocence gives a remarkable freshness to these first-hand observations of the Trudeau years.$9.95, Paperback
Her Excellency Jeanne Sauvé
A small circle of French Canadians who were journalists, intellectuals and politicans had enormous influence on Canadian life in the 60s and 70s. There was one woman among them - and this book tells her story.$9.95, Paperback
Newsworthy
Fascinating, informal protraits of women in the Canadian media: the stories of their struggles for success.$9.95, Paperback
Wife of...
An irreverent, often hilarious portrait of Washington's powerful and important people by the wife of Canada's former ambassador to the United States.$9.95, Paperback
Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould was Canada's greatest musician. From his home in Toronto, he rose to be a world-famous concert pianist and recording artist of the very top rank.$9.95, Paperback
Sons and Seals
One spring day Guy Wright got a berth on a ship bound for the world's most controversial hunt - the Newfoundland seal hunt. He went "to the ice" with 32 other men on the small, cramped M. V. Hector - the first writer to do so in 50 years.$9.95, Paperback
Stanley Knowles
A stalwart in the Canadian Parliament for more than four decades, Stanley Knowles worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor, the elderly and those in need.$9.95, Paperback
Will the Real Gordon Sinclair Please Sit Down
Gordon Sinclair--instantly identifiable by his trademark bowties and irascibility--was one of the greatest of all Canadian newspapermen. These are his memoirs.$9.95, Paperback
Deemed Suspect
In the spring of 1940, Eric Koch was a law student in London. Four months later, he was a prisoner in Quebec, arrested as an enemy alien by the British government and sent to a prison camp in Canada.$9.95, Paperback
I Fought Riel
Louis Riel personally singled out Major Charles Arkoll Boulton for execution. Thomas Scott was shot instead, but Boulton never lost his visceral hatred for the "rebel chief".$45.00, Hardcover
By Reason of Doubt
One day in Paris Cyril Belshaw reported that his wife Betty had disappeared without a trace. Soon afterward her mutilated corpse was discovered concealed on a mountainside--and Cyril was charged with her murder.$9.95, Paperback
Half-Breed
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.$14.95, Paperback
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