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1	A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland more books like this by Professor John Mack Faragher add to wishlist 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 the expulsion of 18,000 Acadians in gripping prose. Following specific families through the ... see all copies from $4.01! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West more books like this by D'Arcy Jenish add to wishlist Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America. Epic Wanderer , the first full-length biography of David Thompson, is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against a broad canvas of dramatic rivalries -- between ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Few Acres of Snow: Documents in Pre-Confederation Canadian History more books like this by Thomas Thorner (Editor) add to wishlist A Few Acres of Snow allows readers to experience early Canadian history in the words of those who first explored, created, and documented the nation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.20! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History more books like this by J Bumsted add to wishlist The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, Expanded 2/e, examines the history of Canada from first contact with the earliest European settlers to 1885. Some of the highlights include pre-contact North American exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries; settlement in the Atlantic provinces, the St. Lawrence Valley and New France; the ... see all copies from $4.67! new only from $37.20! \| first editions
5	The Hanging of Angelique: Canada, Slavery and the Burning of Montreal more books like this by Afua Cooper add to wishlist see all copies from $3.51! new only from $3.99! \| first editions
6	Fish Into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century more books like this by Peter Edward Pope add to wishlist Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery. The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for ... see all copies from $22.28! new only from $38.33! \| first editions \| SVS
7	After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 1773-1852 more books like this by Lucille H Campey add to wishlist This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the 'Hector' in 1773, with nearly 200 Scottish passengers, sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Thousands of Scots, mainly from the Highlands and Islands, ... see all copies from $21.08! new only from $22.72!
8	Merry Hearts Make Light Days: The War of 1812 Journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur, 104th Foot more books like this by Donald E Graves (Editor) add to wishlist In June 1812, 17-year-old John Le Couteur, an officer in a Canadian regiment of the British army, arrived in Halifax to learn that war had broken out between the United States and Great Britain. For the next three years Le Couteur campaigned from Halifax to Fort Erie and left an entertaining memoir of his experiences full of tales of storm-tossed ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $21.21!
9	Quebec During the American Invasion, 17751776: The Journal of Frangois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams more books like this by Francois Baby, Michael P Gabriel (Editor), S Pascale Vergereau-Dewey (Translator) add to wishlist Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of Francois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $18.99! \| first editions
10	Interpreting Canada's Past, Volume One: A Pre-Confederation Reader more books like this by J M Bumsted (Editor), Len Kuffert (Editor) add to wishlist Designed to accompany J.M. Bumsted's introductory history texts (the two-volume Peoples of Canada and the single-volume History of the Canadian Peoples), Interpreting Canada's Past is a collection of readings that now includes primary documents as well as previously published scholarly articles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.28! \| SVS
11	Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line more books like this by Catherine Slaney, Daniel G Hill (Foreword by) add to wishlist Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In this book Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back ... see all copies from $14.45! new only from $32.24! \| first editions
12 view cover	Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure more books like this by Graham Harris, Les MacPhie add to wishlist With this factual account, Harris and MacPhie take the Oak Island mystery into the realm of serious archaeology and history. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $102.02!
13 view cover	To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada more books like this by Steve Pitt add to wishlist This title is intended for ages 8-13. In 1812, a 67 year old black United Empire loyalist helped raise a corps of coloured men to stand against an American invasion in Upper Canada. This fighting unit saw service on many fronts and went on to police clashes between Irish immigrants during the construction of the Wellnad Canal. The book also ... see all copies from $14.70! new only from $14.70! \| SVS
14 view cover	Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade more books like this by A J B Johnston add to wishlist The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon after its founding a major possession in the quest ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
15 view cover	The French in North America 1500-1783 more books like this by W J Eccles add to wishlist This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor ... see all copies from $16.00!
16 view cover	Dixie & the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union more books like this by Adam Mayers add to wishlist Dixie & the Dominion is a compelling look at how the US Civil War was a shared experience that shaped the futures of both Canada and the United States. The book focuses on the last year of the war, between April of 1864 and 1865. During that 12-month period, the Confederate States sent spies and saboteurs to Canada on a secret mission. These ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $2.25! \| first editions
17 view cover	Civil War more books like this by Walter A Hazen add to wishlist Reprinted April 2007 New ISBN 1-59647-199-9 or 978-1-59647-199-3 In this captivating chronicle, young readers learn about everyday life, both on the homefront and the battlefield, during one of the most trying times in our nation's history. Students learn about the life of Union and Confederate soldiers from training to battle, the role of women ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America more books like this by Barry Gough add to wishlist This is the most authoritative and readable account to date of just how British Columbia became British and how Oregon, Washington and Alaska became American. By the closing years of the 18th century, the stage was set for a major international confrontation over the Northwest Coast. Imperial Russia was firmly established in Alaska, Spain was ... see all copies from $17.89! new only from $26.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Elizabeth Jane Errington add to wishlist In the fall of 1831, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family. As Elizabeth Jane Errington illustrates, the nineteenth-century world of ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $22.01! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier more books like this by William Henry Foster add to wishlist see all copies from $8.39! new only from $27.07! \| first editions
21 view cover	In Armageddon's Shadow more books like this by Greg Marquis add to wishlist The important and long-standing economic, social, and kinship ties between the United States and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island were profoundly shaken by the Civil War. In this engaging and accessible account, Greg Marquis explores the shadow cast on the Maritimes and its people by America's bloodiest conflict. "In Armageddon ... see all copies from $13.46! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Battle for North America more books like this by John Tebbel (Editor), Francis Parkman add to wishlist Originally published in 13 volumes as France and England in North America in 1889, this classic work by the most famous American historian of this period has been skilfully edited by the distinguished historian John Tebbel into a single volume. While retaining the original focus, the graceful style and clear chronology, the Editor has eliminated ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $29.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Political Unrest in Upper Canada, 1815-1836 more books like this by Aileen Dunham add to wishlist First published in 1927, this account of the political struggles of Upper Canada prior to the Rebellion of 1837 remains a classic piece of Canadian historical scholarship. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $18.40! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Trail of 1858: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past more books like this by Mark Forsythe, Greg Dickson add to wishlist In 1858, over eight decades had passed since Captain James Cook claimed the shores of what would become British Columbia for the British crown, but European settlers had shown little interest in the new lands. The non-aboriginal population was only about 700. Then gold was discovered on the shores of the Fraser River and, overnight, the lonely ... see all copies from $17.39! new only from $26.32!
25 view cover	Beyond Hope: An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush more books like this by Beverley Boissery, Bronwyn Short add to wishlist Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the inhospitable climate. Some found the motherlode. Others settled for becoming rich merchants. Most became impoverished, and a ... see all copies from $11.34! new only from $13.76! \| first editions

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