Canadian History

Take a deep dive into these narratives exploring the tragedies and triumphs of Canadian history.

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The Avro Arrow : for the record

The Avro Arrow : for the record

Campagna, Palmiro, author
2019


Champlain's dream

Champlain's dream

Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-
2008



The company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire

The company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire

Bown, Stephen R., author
2020

The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.

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The madman and the butcher : the sensational wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

The madman and the butcher : the sensational wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

Cook, Tim, 1971-
2010

Sir Arthur Currie achieved international fame as Canadian Corps commander during the Great War. But wars were not won without lives lost. Who was to blame for Canada's 60,000 dead? Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's war minister during the first two and a half years of the conflict, was an expert on the war. He attacked Currie's reputation in the war's aftermath, accusing him of being a butcher, a callous murderer of his own men.

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