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| 100 CANADIAN HEROINES : Famous & Forgotten Faces [Merna Forster] 100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. You'll meet heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures like mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, Arctic guide Tookoolito, unionist Léa Roback, sexy movie mogul Mary Pickford and singer Portia White. Great quotes and photos are featured in this inspiring collection. As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Persons Case on October 18, 2004, discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we're remembering them. Or not! { 319pp, 150x230mm, November 2004; PB, £15.99, 1550025147:9781550025149 , Dundurn Press } |
| 1000 QUESTIONS ABOUT CANADA : Places, People, Things & Ideas -- A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts & Culture [John Robert Colombo] What are "snow worms"? Are there more moose than people in the Yukon? What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"? Where will you find the world's largest perogy? Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him? What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau's favourite snack food? Which province was the last to shift traffic from the left-hand side of the road to the right? These are some of the questions that are asked -- and answered -- in 1000 Questions About Canada. Every reader with an ounce (or a gram) of curiosity will find these intriguing questions and thoughtful answers fascinating to read and ponder. This book is for people who love curious lore and who want to know more about the country in which they live. { 408pp, 155z230mm, June 2001; PB, £11.99, 0888822324:9780888822321 , Dundurn Press (Hounslow Press) } |
| 200 YEARS YONGE : A History, 2nd Edition [Ralph Magel (ed)] The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation's Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists -- all were to influence the building of Yonge Street. With the building of a route came tolls, inns, villages, more immigrants and ultimately an avenue of economy serving as the key transportation route for the people, goods and services that represent our province. { 144pp, 280x215mm, October 1998; PB, £16.50, 1896219497:9781896219493 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| 500 YEARS OF NEW WORDS : The Fascinating Story of How, When, & Why Hundreds of Your Favourite Words First Entered the English Language [Bill Sherk] 500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down. Beginning with 'America' in 1507 and spanning the centuries to 'Marsiphobiphiliac' in 2004 (a person who would love to go to Mars but is afraid of being marooned there), this book can be opened at any page and the reader will discover a dazzling array of linguistic delights. In other words, this book is unputdownable (the main entry for 1947). If Shakespeare were alive today, he would buy this book. { 312pp, 150x230mm, September 2004; PB, £15.99, 1550025252:9781550025255 , Dundurn Press } |
| 60 YEARS BEHIND THE WHEEL : The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960 [Bill Sherk] From rumble seats and running borads to power tops and tailfins, 60 Years Behind the Wheel captures the thrill of motoring in Canada from the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960. There are intriguing stories of cars with no steering wheels, and fascinating photographs of historic vehicles from across the country. From the Studebaker to the Lincoln-Zephyr, from the showroom to the scrapyard, here are over 150 vehicles owned and driven by Canadians. { 216pp, 250x250mm, October 2003; PB, £12.99, 1550024655:9781550024654 , Dundurn Press (Hounslow Press) } |
| 74 MILES AWAY : Castle Street Mysteries [J D Carpenter] Because business is slow for retired homicide detective Campbell Young’s new enterprise, A-1 Investigative Consultants, he decides to take a break -- a horse-playing vacation to Florida. No sooner are his plans made, however, than his old friend Priam Harvey approaches him with a complex problem: a young Caribbean jazz musician has been found dead in a Toronto hotel room, his body surrounded by the paraphernalia of voodoo. Harvey, whose connection to the victim is revealed to be more than casual, persuades Young to put aside his Racing Form and pick up the trail of the killer. Young’s pursuit takes him all the way from the night-clubs of New York to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and the backwater bars of Grand Bahama Island before the possibility presents itself that the murderer might actually be right in his own backyard. { 286pp, 110x175mm, January 2007; PB, £6.99, 1550026496:9781550026498 , Dundurn Press } |
| A VERY FINE CLASS OF IMMIGRANTS : Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850 [Lucille H Campey] Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the 'northern' colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American War of Independence in 1775. The colonization of Prince Edward Island by Scots takes us back to a period when the process of emigration and settlement were in their infancy. The Pioneer Scots of Prince Edward Island should command our respect. They showed tremendous courage and determination and most were successful. Previous studies of early Scottish emigration to the New World have tended to concentrate on the miseries of evictions and the destruction of old communities. In this groundbreaking study of the influx of Scots to Prince Edward Island, the widely held assumption that emigration was solely a flight from poverty is challenged. By uncovering previously unreported ship crossings, as well as a wide range of manuscripts and underused sources such as customs records and newspaper shipping reports, the book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the influx of Scots to the Island. A VERY FINE CLASS OF IMMIGRANTS is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace family links or deepen their understanding of how and why the Island came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. And by accessing, for the first time, shipping sources like 'Lloyd's List' and the 'Lloyd's Shipping Register', the author brings a new dimension to our understanding of emigrant travel. Campey demonstrates that far from sailing on disease-ridden leaky tubs, as popularly imagined, the Island's Pioneer Scots usually crossed the Atlantic on the best available ships of the time. { 204pp, 155x230mm, May 2007; PB, £12.99, 1550027719:9781550027716 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ABDUCTIONS & ALIENS : What's Really Going On [Chris A Rutkowski] We can't escape them; aliens are everywhere. They sell us soft drinks and star in their own sitcoms. But to the many people who believe they have been abducted aboard strange crafts, aliens are a very serious reality. Stories of these encounters, taken from investigators' files, have been vividly depicted in television specials and motion pictures. Despite their predominance as a cultural phenomenon, experts offer drastically conflicting opinions: aliens are harmless creatures whose aim is to better understand humans; aliens are angel-like entities here to enhance our spiritual awareness; aliens are conspiring with the government in a plot to enslave humans; and aliens are genetically breeding with humans to create a new race of hybrids. But, what is really going on? Are aliens abducting thousands of unsuspecting people each year? Are they then inserted with tracking devices and monitored? Based on his own investigative files and almost twenty-five years of research, science writer Chris Rutkowski asks hard questions, looking critically, yet compassionately, at the stories of abductees. He is an astronomer, educator and published commentator within the area of study known as "ufology." Rutowski presents case histories of many abductees, showing both their diversity and similarities, and examines how our understanding is shaped by media, by science, and by society itself. { 296pp, November 1999; PB, £11.99, 0888822103:9780888822109 , Dundurn Press } |
| ABOVE GROUND : A Jack Taggart Mystery [Don Easton] RCMP detective Jack Taggart has avenged the murders of his niece and nephew, but the consequences linger. His deal with Damien, leader of the Satans Wrath motorcycle gang, has put him in a bind and has jeopardised an informant in the gang. Meanwhile, other members of the gang, led by a mysterious figure known only as "The Boss", have been working to eliminate Taggart by destroying the lives of anyone with connections to him. And if the bad guys aren’t enough of an obstacle, there are problems to be found on the force itself. Assistant Commissioner Isaac is becoming more and more suspicious that Jack may have been responsible for the death of a corrupt Crown prosecutor. With Jack’s life and career on the line, is a tough and gritty follow-up that will more than satisfy readers who were pulled into the dark Vancouver underworld by the first Jack Taggart mystery. { 383pp, 110x180mm, March 2007; PB, £6.99, 155002681X:9781550026818 , Dundurn Press } |
| ACROSS FROZEN SEAS [John Wilson] For ages 8-12. In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels aboard the ill-fated vessel the HMS 'Erebus' from London, England, en route to Canada's frozen and uncharted north, and his adventures comes to a modern-day Dave Young in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, in a series of dreams. { 128pp, 135x210mm, July 2001; PB, £8.95, 0888783817:9780888783813 , Dundurn Press } |
| ACTING SKILLS FOR LIFE : 2nd Edition [Ron Cameron] The study of acting helps students develop personal and social skills: increased poise and confidence, better awareness of their physical and vocal selves, and improved ability to think and react quickly. These talents can help in dealing with sometimes difficult real-life situations. The intention of Acting Skills for Life is to integrate personal growth and the process of creative drama with the more formal skills required for stage production. This is a very practical book, full of suggestions for drama exercises and improvisations, developed over Cameron's thirty years of teaching drama, and includes helpful information for teachers working with students on stage productions. { 485pp, 155x230mm, November 1999; PB, £14.99, 0889242895:9780889242890 , Dundurn Press } |
| ACTOR'S SURVIVAL KIT : 3rd Edition [Miriam Newhouse & Peter Messaline] The Actor's Survival Kit has been the backbone of Business of Acting courses and a constant resource for its many readers across Canada. But, after seven years and two editions, the business has changed. Peter Messaline and Miriam Newhouse have revised the original Actor's Survival Kit and addressed a number of issues and areas of current concern. These include: Online Casting -- the happening thing, or still a scam? Megamusicals -- they swept the country, but will they provide work in the future? Motion capture, realtime animation -- opportunity or problem? Women and Minorities -- have they replaced the rule of dead white males? Multi-Media Productions -- ACTRA is moving, but is it soon enough? The third edition of The Actor's Survival Kit gives the actor fresh research and today's experience, new lists of country-wide contacts, and input from current success stories. { 226pp, 155x230mm, April 1999; PB, £9.99, 088924278X:9780889242784 , Dundurn Press (Simon & Pierre) } |
| ACTOR'S SURVIVAL KIT, 4TH EDITION [Miriam Newhouse & Peter Messaline] Required reading in Canadian theatre schools and is a constant resource for its many readers across the country. This fourth edition gives actors fresh research from today’s experience, new lists of Canada-wide contracts, and input from success stories. It speaks to a new generation of artists, giving them an up-to-date guide to the business of acting. It addresses a range of new issues: performer websites, video self-production, and sending resumes and networking on the Internet. It also takes a fresh look at old ones: agents, self-promotion, and work opportunities for women and minorities. The authors learn by constantly talking to emerging artists about the problems they face in the business in Canada. Often those conversations begin with, "You wrote the book!" The authors are still receiving thanks from grateful artists who have been guided by this irreplaceable book over the years. { 262pp, 155x230mm, February 2007; PB, £12.99, 155002678X:9781550026788 , Dundurn Press } |
| ADAM'S PEAK : A Novel [Heather Burt] On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away -- Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brother’s impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, strangers living continents apart, fixtures of each other’s memories and imaginations, are connected again. Overturning the guarded, insular lives they both lead, two events -- one an accident, the other an act of terror -- transform them both and bind the Vantwest and Fraser families irrevocably. 'Adam’s Peak' weaves back and forth between a Montreal suburb and a Colombo private school, between a Ceylon tea estate at the end of the Second World War and a small Scottish town in the early 1960s, its characters struggling desperately to come to terms with themselves and with their powerful connections to the people and places they have tried to escape. { 335pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; PB, £11.50, 1550026461:9781550026467 , Dundurn Press } |
| ADDRESS BOOK FOR NATURALISTS : Quotations Collected by Margaret Morse Nice [Doris Huestis Speirs (ed); Illustrated by Sylvia Hahn] This is a double purpose book, for utility (the addresses of your friends) and for inspiration and challenging thought (a book of quotations). How did it happen? Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974), the distinguished bird-watcher, when commencing to write her autobiography (Research Is a Passion With Me), felt it would be a good idea to begin each chapter with an apt quotation. Her book ran to 38 chapters, but by the time the manuscript was finished, she had amassed enough quotations for a separate book. She passed away in her 91st year in 1974 but had not been able to decide which quotation would really be best for which chapter. After her life story was published, her brother in Vermont gave to its editor a carton containing all of the quotations (some typed but most hand-written). Now you, the reader, may enjoy them all, as well as the pages for addresses and Sylvia Hahn’s charming wood engravings. { 128pp, 135x180mm, January 1983; HB, £4.50, 0920474292:9780920474297 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ADJUST YOUR SET : Poems [Linda Stitt] "Adjust Your Set" adds a further dimension to the impressive body of work by one of Canada's finest and most popular poets, Linda Stitt. A native of Huntsville and edu-cated in Georgetown and Toronto, Ontario, Linda lived for a number of years in Thunder Bay before returning to Toronto in 1978. With five books of poetry previously published, Linda Stitt, a member of the League of Canadian Poets, is in great demand as a reader. Many of her recent readings have been as a member of the trio of Toronto area poets known as the Uncritical Mass. { 84pp, 155x230mm, October 1997; PB, £8.99, 1896219322:9781896219325 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ADMIRALS : Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century [Michael Whitby, Richard H Gimblett & Peter Haydon] This book fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an armed service but in ensuring that it is ready to face the challenges of the future. Canada's leading naval historians present analytical articles on the officers who led the navy from its foundation in 1910 to the unification in 1968. Six former Maritime Commanders provide personal reflections on command. The result is a valuable biographical compendium for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Forces, or military and naval leadership in general. { 414pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; PB, £12.99, 1550025805:9781550025804 , Dundurn Press } |
| ADVENTURES IN THE WEST : Henry Halpin, Fur Trader & Indian Agent [David Elliott] This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada's native peoples, was twice employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, and became an Indian agent (1885-1901). Halpin's work took him from Fort Garry, Manitoba, to Fort York on the shores of the Hudson Bay, and across the Prairies to British Columbia. { 270pp, 155x230mm, August 2008; PB, £14.00, 1550028030:9781550028034 , Dundurn Press (Heritage Books) } |
| AFTER SURFING OCEAN BEACH : A Novel [Mary Soderstrom] In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has occurred. Little does he know that not only has he killed an innocent man, but the man is the son of Annie, with whom Rick had an intense relationship in his youth. As Rick and Annie struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, each recalls the life they once led, and pines for a life that never was. This haunting and engaging tale is Mary Soderstrom at her masterful best. { 221pp, 140x215mm, May 2004; PB, £10.99, 1550025090:9781550025095 , Dundurn Press } |
| AFTER TAXES : Managing Personal Wealth -- 8th Edition [Geoff Stevens] Maximizing one's savings is the surest way to guarantee that there is life after taxes. The truly successful investor begins with careful tax planning, which must never be a last-minute scramble in the dreadful month of March or worse still, April! We all know that few of us actually plan well ahead, as we ought to, to protect ourselves and our hard-earned money. This book may well be the answer. Based on The Gasletter Collection, the author's successful primer on sheltering your income, After Taxes is designed to help the working individual put in place a long-term strategy. An easy-to-understand handbook, it helps the reader wrestle with the implications of retirement funds, savings, off-shore shelters, investments, mutual funds, real estate, buyouts, separation allowances, and golden (or not-so-golden) handshakes. A must for those who wish to make informed financial decisions and better choices to guarantee a secure future. { 234pp, 140x215mm, December 2000; PB, £11.99, 0919614930:9780919614932 , Dundurn Press (Golden Dog Press) } |
| AFTER THE HECTOR : The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia & Cape Breton, 1773-1852 [Lucille H Campey] 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, streamed into the province during the late 1700s and the first half of the nineteenth century. Lucille Campey traces the process of emigration and explains why Scots chose their different settlement locations in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Much detailed information has been distilled to provide new insights on how, why and when the province came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. Challenging the widely held assumption that this was primarily a flight from poverty, "After the Hector" reveals how Scots were being influenced by positive factors, such as the opportunity for greater freedoms and better livelihoods. The suffering and turmoil of the later Highland Clearances have cast a long shadow over earlier events, creating a false impression that all emigration had been forced on people. Hard facts show that most emigration was voluntary, self-financed and pursued by people expecting to improve their economic prospects. A combination of push and pull factors brought Scots to Nova Scotia, laying down a rich and deep seam of Scottish culture that continues to flourish. Extensively documented with all known passenger lists and details of over three hundred ship crossings, this book tells their story. { 376pp, 155x230mm, May 2007; PB, £12.99, 1550027700:9781550027709 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| AFTER THE HECTOR : The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia & Cape Breton, 1773-1852 [Lucille H Campey] 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, streamed into the province during the late 1700s and the first half of the nineteenth century. The author traces the process of emigration and explains why Scots chose their different settlement locations in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Much detailed information has been distilled to provide new insights on how, why and when the province came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. Challenging the widely held assumption that this was primarily a flight from poverty, the book reveals how Scots were being influenced by positive factors, such as the opportunity for greater freedoms and better livelihoods. { 376pp, 155x230mm, May 2004; PB, £17.50, 1896219950:9781896219950 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| AFTERSHOCK : Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism [David Matas] Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon. Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal is destruction of the State of Israel, use accusations of the worst forms of human rights violations against Israel to delegitimise the state. These accusations criminalise the Jewish population worldwide for actual or presumed support of the State of Israel. The contemporary international human rights system and the existence of the State of Israel are twin legacies of the Holocaust. The failure of the human rights system to prevent attacks on Israel and the Jews is an aftershock of the Holocaust. { 256pp, 152x229mm, August 2005; PB, £12.99, 1550025538:9781550025538 , Dundurn Press } |
| ALGONQUIN : An Illustrated Poem [James Savage] The Algonquin Park Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario in the year 1893. Thus the goal of Alexander Kirkwood was achieved after many years of study, research and persistent representation. Kirkwood was ably assisted by James Dickson, who surveyed the area of the proposed park. Even before the park was established, the men who knew the region were enchanted by its woods and waters. In one of his reports Dickson wrote -- "As we float along the streams or skim over the calm water of the lakelets almost every stroke of the paddle unfolds some new scene of rural beauty seldom equalled in any part of our fair province, and to paint them all in their pristine beauty would take the most gifted pen or pencil of either author or artist." { 72pp, 125x180mm, May 1993; PB, £8.99, 0920474705:9780920474709 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ALGONQUIN WILDLIFE : Lessons in Survival [Norm Quinn; Foreword by Dan Strickland] This is a celebration of the vast array of wildlife studies ongoing in Ontario's very first provincial park. Probably more research has been done in Algonquin than in any other protected landscape in the world. Norm Quinn, long-time Park Management Biologist in Algonquin, has been fortunate to know and to work with many of those dedicated and unique wildlife researchers who roam and probe the forests and lakes in search of Nature's secrets. His knowledge, experience and sense of humour combine to transform technical biological studies, on moose, wolves, fish and other creatures of the wild, into entertaining and inviting stories without losing the significance of the research. This is also a book about Algonquin, Ontario's flagship Park and one of the foremost canoe-tripping wilderness sites in the world. Throughout the book you are invited to explore this relatively unknown but vital part of the Park's heritage -- a must for both seasoned and budding naturalists. { 246pp, 155x230mm, August 2002; PB, £15.50, 1896219284:9781896219288 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ALMAGUIN : A Highland History [Astrid Taim] { 160pp, 205x255mm, July 1998; PB, £13.99, 1896219373:9781896219370 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ALMAGUIN CHRONICLES : Memories of the Past [Astrid Taim] The Almaguin Highlands is a region that was once coveted for its game, silver birch and majestic white pine. For centuries this area stretched up to the shores of Lake Nipissing and embraced an unbroken forest that remained largely intact save where lakes, streams and beaver meadows punctuated the forest floor. In 1900, the northernmost areas of the District of Parry Sound were still not accessible by even a conventional roadway. Homesteaders, their claims precariously strung along the Pickerel River, relied on the waterway as their transportation route. What must it have been like at the outset for the lumbermen who cut down the white pine? And how did the settlers-those intrepid folk who trekked across the district with only the lumberjack's blazed trails for a guide-cope in the wilderness? 'Almaguin Chronicles' explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement throughout the Parry Sound District -- the last frontier of this part of Ontario. Throughout, rare archival photographs and excerpts from unpublished memoirs augment the text. { 160pp, December 2007; PB, £13.99, 1550027603:9781550027600 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ALONG THE TRAIL IN ALGONQUIN PARK : with Ralph Bice [Ralph Bice] "Along the Trail in Algonquin Park" has delighted thousands of readers across Canada and the United States from the time of its first publication in the summer of 1980. This is the fourth reprint of the classic work by the late legendary outdoorsman, Ralph Bice of Kearney, Ontario. The writing is vintage Ralph Bice; a combination of unequalled park knowledge, remarkable outdoor adventures and delightful rustic humour. ALONG THE TRAIL was originally to have been titled 'Forty Years in Algonquin Park', but by the time the book appeared, the author's lifelong love affair with the park had exceeded eighty. In 1993, the time of Algonquin Park's centennial, the 'Grand Old Man of Algonquin' had entered his 94th year. He was to continue to live nearby his beloved park until his passing in 1997. Remembered not only for his writings, Ralph Bice is honoured by a fitting memorial to 'Mister Algonquin' as Algonquin Park visitors will now discover when they enter the west side of the park. For here the lake he favoured over all others, Butt Lake, has been renamed Ralph Bice Lake. { 176pp, 155x230mm, June 2001; PB, £11.50, 0920474195:9780920474198 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| AMIENS : Dawn of Victory [James McWilliams & R James Steel] It was the decisive battle of World War I. German commander Erich Ludendorff called it "the black day of the German army." Many authors have stated that it was the beginning of the end of the great conflict. And yet, until now, no book has been published on the climactic battle at Amiens. Amiens was one of the first "modern" battles, and certainly the first attempted by the Allies. Employing the troops of five nations (including Canada) and utilising secrecy, deception, and combined operations, the Allies won the first of a string of victories culminating in the Armistice one hundred days later. Amiens: Dawn of Victory is the first book to study the historic battle in minute detail. Using eyewitness accounts from dozens of survivors, plus many accounts, both published and unpublished, by the participants, the authors take us into the trenches, the tanks, and the cockpits. { 316pp, 155x230mm, October 2000; PB, £11.99, 155002342X:9781550023428 , Dundurn Press } |
| AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR US? : Audition Pieces From Canadian Plays: Second Edition [Margaret Bard, Peter Messaline & Miriam Newhouse (eds)] Canada's first audition book, with monologues from plays of the seventies, also useful as a survey of Canadian playwriting. { 112pp, 155x230mm, January 1984; PB, £7.99, 0889241449:9780889241442 , Dundurn Press } |
| ANGEL IN THE FULL MOON : A Jack Taggart Mystery [Don Easton] In this gritty, gut-wrenching sequel to Loose Ends and Above Ground, Jack Taggart continues as an undercover Mountie whose quest for justice takes him from the sunny, tourist-laden beaches of Cuba to the ghettos of Hanoi. His targets deal in human flesh, smuggling unwitting victims for the sex trade. It is a story fraught with raw human emotion, and characters so real that they could not be figments of someone's imagination. Jack's personal vendetta for justice is questioned by his partner, until he reveals the secret behind his motivation, exposing the very essence of his soul. This is the world of the undercover operative: a world of lies, treachery, and deception. A world where violence erupts without warning, like a ticking time bomb on a crowded bus. It isn't a matter of if that bomb will go off -- it is a matter of how close you are to it when it does. { 368pp, 110x175mm, May 2008; PB, £6.99, 1550028138:9781550028133 , Dundurn Press } |
| ANGELS HELP US : Discovering Divine Guidance [Jean Porche & Deborah Vaughan] What are angels? What do they do? How can we work with them? In this lively overview of angels you will explore historical and scriptural accounts, traditions from around the world, and diverse contemporary views about angels. You will enjoy stories of angelic encounters with ordinary men and women like yourself. And you will discover what to expect when you invite your angel to act in your life. Everywhere people are seeking angels. It's as natural as breathing to do so. Like us, angels are part of something much bigger than what our eyes can see. So consider your interest in angels an invitation to a deeper understanding of your connection to all creation. Readers of this book will find ways to connect with their angels who will bring peace to their hearts and ease to their lives. { 148pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £9.99, 1550024361:9781550024364 , Dundurn Press } |
| ANOTHER WINTER, ANOTHER SPRING : A Love Remembered [Louise de Kiriline Lawrence] This is at once an actual memoir and an intensely felt love story. Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, this is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering. It is the true story of a young woman of ease and privilege, her growing up amidst the Swedish aristocracy during the 1890s, her marriage to the son of a Russian general and her long journey through the maelstrom of Russia during the Revolution, a journey through the chaos of a war-torn land that thousands were fleeing. Following her husband across the continent, she is at the Northern Front when it collapses, and is imprisoned and taken to Moscow under the most extraordinary conditions. With the skill of a natural storyteller, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence unfolds her past and the dramatic circumstances of her sweet first love. She evokes the opulent world of her early childhood culminating in her presentation to the Swedish court at the royal palace, her first days as a Red Cross nurse in a prisoner-of-war camp where she met her husband, the midnight sleigh ride that took her through the snows of a Russian winter in flight from enemy troops, her arrival in the Moscow railway station and her bewildering walk through a city gaunt and strangely silenced by war. Finally her desperate efforts to learn the fate of her imprisoned husband lead her to the cold halls of Soviet bureaucracy and the treachery of the new regime. And gradually, through the turmoil and tentative joy, she realises her growing awe and love for the great vast reaches of a land that tempers her people with the harsh cruelty of her winters and the lavish tenderness of her springs. This is more than the story of the Revolution; it is the story of a rare and determined love remembered. ANOTHER WINTER, ANOTHER SPRING is a vivid and intensely personal recollection of a woman's private confrontation with a madly public world, a journey of the heart and mind written with great sensitivity, character and insight. { 267pp, 155x230mm, June 1987; PB, £10.50, 092047442X:9780920474426 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| ANXIOUS GRAVITY : A Novel [Jeff Wells] The life of a naïve, born-again teen can sometimes seem God-awful, as Gideon discovers at Overcomer Bible Institute. Having given himself over to religion, Gideon quickly finds his newfound faith challenged by sexually aggressive women, a disturbed student armed with a power drill, and Siamese-twin evangelists. A satiric look at the religious and secular worlds, Anxious Gravity succeeds at the daunting task of being both thoughtful and wildly entertaining. REVIEW: "Jeff Wells is the most consistently funny humorist in Canada today.." -- Michael Bate, Editor-in-Chief, Frank. { 342pp, 155x230mm, September 2001; PB, £9.99, 0889242992:9780889242999 , Dundurn Press } |
| APATHETIC & THE DEFIANT : Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny & Disobedience, 1812-1919 [Craig Leslie Mantle (ed)] Canadian soldiers have served their country for centuries, and for the most part they have done so honourably and loyally. Yet, on certain occasions, their conduct has been anything but honourable. Whether by disobeying their legal orders, terrorising the local population, or committing crimes in general, some soldiers have embodied the very antithesis of appropriate military conduct. Covering examples of unsavoury behaviour in the representatives of our military forces from the War of 1812 to the immediate aftermath of the First World War, "The Apathetic and the Defiant" reveals that disobedience and mutiny have marked all of the major conflicts in which Canada has participated. Canadian military indiscipline has long been overshadowed by the nation’s victories and triumphs ... until now. { 376pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £20.00, 1550027107:9781550027105 , Dundurn Press } |
| ARCTIC ALTERNATIVES : Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North [Franklyn Griffiths (ed)] This book deals with the conceptual and practical problems that must be resolved if the peoples of the Arctic countries are to steer the development of their region away from militarism and towards civility. { 313pp, 155x230mm, September 1992; PB, £9.99, 0888669518:9780888669513 , Dundurn Press } |
| ARCTIC CAIRN NOTES : Canoeists' Reflections on the Hanbury-Thelon & Kazan Rivers [David F Pelly (ed)] The canoeing heritage of two great barrenlands rivers is best recounted in the words of the many paddlers who paused, on the banks of the river, to write a few lines recording their trip and their thoughts. This book offers history and emotion; here is the feeling of the barrenlands canoeing experience. It will also serve as a useful reference for anyone planning, or dreaming of, their own northern trip. What do Sarah, Duchess of York, former prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and John Turner, canoeing pioneer Eric Morse, the legendary John Hornby, veteran barrenlands travellers George Luste and Alex Hall, CTV newsman Craig Oliver, singer Gordon Lightfoot, writer David Pelly and Japanese solo-tripper Akitoshi Nishimura all have in common? They are all in this book, because they all left notes in a cairn beside one of these Arctic rivers, the Kazan or the Hanbury-Thelon. { 237pp, 170x170mm, June 1997; PB, £8.50, 0969078374:9780969078371 , Dundurn Press (Betelgeuse Books) } |
| ARCTIC MEMORIES [Normee Ekoomiak] Text in Inuktitut. "Arctic Memories" is a multifaceted picture book for people of all ages who appreciate art and are curious about the life of the Inuit. { 32pp, 290x215mm, January 1998; HB, £9.99, 1550210432:9781550210439 , Dundurn Press (NC Press Ltd) } |
| ARCTIC REVOLUTION : Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 [John David Hamilton] This path-breaking book offers some no-nonsense truths about northern development. { 298pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; PB, £9.99, 1550022067:9781550022063 , Dundurn Press } |
| ART OF DECEPTION [Sergio Kokis; Translated by W Donald Wilson] Max Willem, a young art student in Montreal at the end of the 1960s, becomes obsessed with outward appearances -- with makeup, costume, and masks of all kinds. For him, outward reality, and in particular that of the opposite sex, is composed of many veils of illusion and artifice through which he must see if he is to feel fully alive. At the same time, Max discovers his exceptional talent for art forgery. Moving to New York, he becomes a tool in the hands of a powerful international ring dealing in forged art, and suffers from the loss of his own artistic integrity. Himself seduced as much a seducer, how can Max escape and redeem his artistic soul? In The Art of Deception, Sergio Kokis has written a novel about mystification and illusion. His exuberant narrative provides a caustic insight into the undersides of art and of love. { 349pp, 140x215mm, July 2002; PB, £11.99, 1550023845:9781550023848 , Dundurn Press } |
| ART SMART : The Intelligent Guide to Investing in the Canadian Art Market [Alan Bryce] This is a complete guide on buying and investing in Canadian art whether you are a novice or an experienced collector. This guide book is full of advice and information to help anyone determine the real value of art they have or are planning to purchase and have the tools to not be intimidated by the world of art. The book covers the often complex inner workings of the art market from dealer trade secrets to expert strategies on consigning, buying and selling through auction houses. It also gives specific skills and information art on the internet and current trends that may dramatically change the future of the art market. { 176pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £12.99, 1550026763:9781550026764 , Dundurn Press } |
| AT THE END OF THE SHIFT : Mines & Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario [Matt Bray & Ashley Thomson] This book explores the relationship between mining and the communities it creates. { 208pp, 155x230mm, July 1996; PB, £8.99, 1550021508:9781550021509 , Dundurn Press } |
| BATTLE DIARY : From D-Day & Normandy to the Zuider Zee & Ve [Charles Cromwell Martin] He was one of the first on the beach on 6 June 1994 -- D-Day. Charlie Martin and members of the Queen's Own Rifles raced from their landing craft, dodging, shooting, tearing across the sand towards the French village of Bernières-sur-Mer. They made that objective, though the losses were heavy. This is a rifleman's story , on the ground and at the point, under fire, in minefields, in trenches, in mud. The shrinking band of D-Day originals gratefully accepted reinforcements as they battled across France, took the Channel ports, slogged through the soggy fields, and dikes of the Scheldt and Holland, and finally crossed the Rhine. They faced Hitler Youth units, SS regiments, and highly trained paratroops. None surrendered easily. Charlie's memoir is a striking portrayal of how the boys of the Queen's Own became men and how the men became veterans. They had to learn fast at the 'point' or they were gone. { 191pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; PB, £9.99, 155002213X:9781550022131 , Dundurn Press } |
| BATTLEFIELDS OF CANADA [Mary Beacock Fryer] Battlefields of Canada encompasses nearly 300 years of history and features sixteen of the most significant Canadian battles as well as some of the most comic or bizarre. Profusely illustrated with sketches, photographs, and detailed maps, each chapter sets the context of the battle in terms of the struggle of which it was part, and then describes the hour-by-hour events. A brief conclusion to each chapter assesses the consequences for the victors and losers, assigning its place in Canadian history. A chronology provides a comprehensive list of every Canadian battle since the early 1600s. { 274pp, 155x230mm, July 1996; SB, £9.99, 1550020072:9781550020076 , Dundurn Press } |
| BECKY CHAN : A Novel [Jared Mitchell] Becky Chan's life gets off to a rocky start. She is born into a poor family, with a ne'er-do-well father. But by 1967, she is the reigning queen of the Hong Kong film industry, and her life is frequently confused by her public with the roles that she plays, including the Goddess of Mercy. In the city, Communist factions are setting bombs and kidnapping people. In mainland China, itself in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, rival factions of the Communist Party are terrorizing the nation. In the midst of this turmoil, Becky Chan disappears. Told from the point of view of an aging Canadian expatriate residing in the colony, Becky Chan is an absorbing and intriguing story that is entirely set in the Hong Kong film world. Woven into Becky's life story, itself the stuff of a Mandarin movie, are the plots of several of her 190 films. { 291pp, 140x215mm, April 2001; PB, £11.99, 088924300X:9780889243002 , Dundurn Press } |
| BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CANADIAN HONOURS [Christopher McCreery] For over 40 years Canadian orders, decorations, and medals have been used to recognise exemplary citizens for their outstanding contributions to our country and to the world. Although Canada is a relatively young country, we are fortunate to have one of the most comprehensive honours systems in the world. With the Order of Canada at its centre, the Canadian honours system includes the Victoria Cross, Star of Courage, Order of St. John, General Campaign Star, Canadian Forces Decoration, and a wide variety of other awards. From the honours of New France to the many British medals awarded to Canadians prior to 1967, the various elements of the modern Canadian honours system are explained. This short book, rich with illustrations and photos, provides an easy-to-understand overview of Canadian honours, who has received them, and how they are bestowed. The book also includes a wearing guide. { 198pp, 210x210mm, July 2008; PB, £10.00, 1550027484:9781550027488 , Dundurn Press } |
| BEHIND BARS : Inside Ontario's Heritage Gaols [Ron Brown] Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many are architectural wonders on the outside and have been declared heritage buildings. A few have been converted to museums and show the harsh conditions that convicts had to endure. "Behind Bars" also tells of the many hilarious escapes, gruesome hangings and unusual trials which made Ontario’s old jails the centre of attention. Highlights include ghost-town jails in Silver Islet and Berens River; torture devices on display at the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston, along with the "shower" and the coffin-sized "box"; the man who was executed but didn't die; mysterious escapes; the battle over Ontario's smallest jail; Woodstock's death mask; love stories gone wrong; Ontario's first terrorist attack; the worst mass murderer; and haunted jails. { 144pp, 155x230mm, September 2006; PB, £17.50, 1897045174:9781897045176 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BEHIND THE SCENES : A Canadian Scene Book: Volume Two [Mary Ross & Ron Cameron (eds)] This volume brings together sixteen scenes from some of Canada's most popular plays, in a wide variety of genres, including comedy, drama, musical and farce. The scenes selected encourage the reader to explore time periods from the eighteenth century to the present day, different regions across Canada, and diverse cultural elements in the country. The number of roles ranges from one to six characters. Writing styles, from realistic to absurd, expose the reader to various life experiences and styles of communication. Background notes and biographies of the playwrights accompany each excerpt. These scenes contain themes and language that will challenge mature readers. REVIEW: "Scenes from Canadian plays for two to six actors. Thirty-two excellent opportunities for young thespians... these are texts which I would certainly use with my own senior students of dramatic arts..." -- Reviewing Librarian. { 124pp, 155x230mm, March 1990; PB, £8.99, 0889241961:9780889241961 / PB, £8.99, 0889241945:9780889241947 , Dundurn Press } |
| BEN FRANKLIN'S WAR [Stephen Eaton Hume] For ages 8-12. After his 'wonderful airship' crashes near St Francis of Assisi's Home for Foundlings in Quebec City, Ben Franklin is thrown slightly off course in his carefully laid plan to coax Canada into joining the Americans in their fight against England's rule. A motley crew of orphans hides the famous inventor from the British Redcoats during the American War of Independence. One of these orphans, 16-year-old Michael Flynn, is deaf and was abandoned by his parents, who were convinced that his problem was caused by demons who 'seized his tongue and prevented him from speaking'. Michael leads his best friends, White Rat and Briony, through the dangerous spy portals of underground Montreal carrying secret messages to ensure Franklin eludes the gallows. When Michael's sign language inspires the great scientist to create a top-secret spy code, Michael and his friends are flung headlong into an adventure they'll never forget. { 120pp, 130x210mm, November 2006; PB, £5.99, 1550026380:9781550026382 , Dundurn Press } |
| BEYOND HOPE : An Illustrated History of the Fraser & Cariboo Gold Rush [Beverley Boissery & Bronwyn Short] 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 large number lost their lives. With new roads and new settlers, the gold rush helped build Canada's West. This pictorial history tells the stories of the Fraser and Cariboo gold rush and of the lives involved in that tumultuous but decisive event in Canadian history. { 99pp, 255x255mm, September 2003; PB, £12.99, 155002471X:9781550024715 , Dundurn Press } |
| BIG BANG, BABY : Rock Trivia [Richard Crouse] Big Bang, Baby will entertain and enlighten music fans of all eras, and will challenge both the pop novice and the experienced rock trivia junkie. { 318pp, 195x230mm, April 2000; PB, £12.99, 0888822197:9780888822192 , Dundurn Press } |
| BIG RED FOX : The Incredible Story of Norman 'Red' Ryan, Canada's Most Notorious Criminal [Peter McSherry] Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice -- first by force, and then years later by gulling the credulous into believing that he was "reformed." The dupes of Ryan's second emancipation included the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, several nationally prominent citizens, the country's largest newspaper, and, ultimately, R.B. Bennett, the prime minister of Canada, who made the mistake of arranging a "political parole" for Ryan. Six people -- three of them innocent victims -- died as a result of Red Ryan's freedom. Dubbed "the Jesse James of Canada" and "Canada's most notorious criminal," Ryan had compiled a record of nineteen convictions for crimes of theft and violence, and had been in nine shooting affrays with police and citizens. He was a "lifer" in an era when "life" meant just that. Yet he got out of Kingston after just eleven and a half years and returned to Toronto, the city of his birth, amid fanfare befitting a national hero. His death in a liquor store robbery in Sarnia on May 23, 1936, just ten months after his release, was a huge jolt to Canada, and especially Toronto. How could such an obvious threat to society be paroled from prison as a paragon of reform? This question is central to The Big Red Fox. The answer lies not with Ryan himself -- not even the cunning and deceitful Red Ryan could have hoodwinked his way out of a life sentence -- but with those who helped him, and who benefited from his release. { 216pp, 155x230mm, October 1999; PB, £9.99, 1550023241:9781550023244 , Dundurn Press } |
| BIRDS OF ONTARIO : Volume 1 [J Murray Speirs] This extensive and long overdue work of reference contains a list of all the birds identified in Ontario up to the end of 1984, with the common and scientific names given by the American Ornithologists' Union 1983 checklist and as arranged in that work. The volume contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates and informative text of considerable interest. { 538pp, 170x250mm, January 1985; HB, £24.99, 0920474381:9780920474389 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BIRDS OF THE COTTAGE COUNTRY [William C Mansell] A virtual storybook account of the author's personalised observations throughout Ontario's cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching -- even for the most skeptical of laymen. { 208pp, 105x180mm, June 1985; PB, £6.99, 0920469027:9780920469026 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BLACK CREEK PIONEER VILLAGE : Toronto's Living History Village [Nick Mika, Helma Mika & Gary Thompson] This is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the1800s. Nestled on 56 acres of tranquility, the village is a step-back-in-time, a respite from the towering buildings and bustling traffic of the 21st century. Here, visitors discover the joys and daily realities of living in early Ontario. Here at the village, the sights, sounds and smells are tangible reminders of the past. Meet the blacksmith, the tinsmith, the weaver, the miller, the printer.... Meet the people who "live" at Black Creek and bring our yesteryears to life. { 108pp, 230x205mm, May 2000; PB, £12.99, 1896219640:9781896219646 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BLISS PIG & OTHER POEMS [Charlene Jones & Linda Stitt] "Bliss Pig and Other Poems" represents the formidable writing talents of two members of the popular trio of poets known as Uncritical Mass. Toronto's Linda Stitt has published five volumes of poetry. Charlene Jones, a professor of English, has been published in several Canadian and American journals. Together they read to enthusiastic audiences across Canada. { 104pp, 155x230mm, October 1999; PB, £7.99, 1896219608:9781896219608 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BLOOD OF THE DONNELLYS [David McRae] Ages 9 to 13 years. When Jason Stevens moves from the town of Lucan to Toronto he gets community service following a spate of burglaries. His grandfather is the supervisor who is building a new museum devoted to the brutal history of Lucan involving the Donnelly clan. Jason finds himself involved with a gang of drug dealers but at the same time is enthralled by the history. With the help of a ghost, he searches for answers to the enigma as well as his own life. { 144pp, 135x210mm, February 2008; PB, £6.99, 1550027549:9781550027549 , Dundurn Press } |
| BLOODY YORK : Tales of Mayhem, Murder, & Mystery in Toronto [David Skene-Melvin] Although it may lack the labyrinthine sewers of Paris, the mean streets of Los Angeles, or the low and vile alleys of London. Toronto is not without its places of danger, excitement and romance. In "Bloody York", thirteen Canadian writers from the late nineteenth century to today find intrigue, mystery and terror in the familiar streets and places of Toronto, in stories set from the 1860s to beyond the present. Here, ghostly uncles help apprehend embezzlers, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson aid Sir John A. MacDonald in foiling American plans to annex Canada. Travellers from a distant land come pursued by vengeful priests, neighbour robs neighbour, terrorism stalks the unsuspecting and a detective finds a clue only to lose his way. Over a century of Canadian crime writers provide this celebration of a great city, including: John Dent, Robert Barr, Jack Batten, Maureen Jennings and Rosemary Aubert. David Skene-Melvin provides an extensive introduction, putting each story into the geographic and historical context of the city. A brief lead-in sets the tone for each story. Additionally, there are biographies of the contributors and their complete bibliographies, along with an extensive appendix listing crime novels set in Toronto. { 216pp, 155x230mm, October 1996; PB, £8.99, 0889242739:9780889242739 , Dundurn Press } |
| BLUE MOON [James King] Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James King draws on the historical case of Evelyn Dick, and imagines her life after her release from prison. It is a life in which she travels to Vancouver, renames herself, and settles into a position as sales clerk at Duthie Books on Robson. There she meets Ethel Wilson, begins therapy, and tries to understand the events that led to her imprisonment and current life. She also begins to write, and finds herself a successfully published author. But did she murder her husband? Is she guilty of neglect of her baby boy? Was her life as Hamilton's most notorious prostitute her responsibility? With the help of Doctor Newman, she attempts to come to understand the violence in which she was involved, her sense of guilt, and the essential truth of her innocence. { 360pp, 155x230mm, September 2000; PB, £9.99, 0889242933:9780889242937 , Dundurn Press (Simon & Pierre) } |
| BOLD, BRAVE, BORN TO LEAD : Major-General Isaac Brock & the Canadas [Mary Beacock Fryer] Celebrated as the saviour of Upper Canada, Major General Sir Isaac Brock was a charismatic leader who won the respect not only of his own troops, but also of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and even men among his enemy. His motto could well have been 'speak loud and look big'. Although this attitude earned him a reputation for brashness, it also enabled his success and propelled him into the significant role he would play in the War of 1812. { 262pp, 135x185mm, February 2004; PB, £6.99, 1550025015:9781550025019 , Dundurn Press } |
| BON ECHO : The Denison Years [Mary Savigny] This book documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake Mazinaw area in Ontario's rugged Land O' Lakes district, to both play and work. From the construction of Bon Echo Inn by American Dr Weston Price to the creation of today's Bon Echo Provincial Park, the author has been privy to the 'inside' story. The struggles and ideals of the early Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison and her author-playwright son, Merrill, are well recorded in this important book. The author, a good storyteller, obviously learned plenty from the old master during her many years as his manuscript typist, a relationship that ended with Merrill Denison's death in 1975. { 130pp, 155x230mm, July 1997; PB, £11.50, 1896219306:9781896219301 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BOWMANVILLE : A Small Town at the Edge [William Humber] William Humber's "Bowmanville: A Small at the Edge" is an extraordinarily detailed, often affectionate and occasionally critical account of a modem small town on the edge of a rapidly expanding metropolitan region. The book recounts stories from the time of Charles Bowman, the potential ambition of railroads from lake Ontario to Georgian Bay, the legacy of grand pianos found in every comer of the world and the fateful decision of a rural businessman which gave General Motors to another community. A treat for small town enthusiasts, urban designers and community activists, Humber's book provides a fresh took at the present life of small towns and how their character can be recreated in future decision-making. { 132pp, 155x230mm, July 1997; PB, £11.50, 1896219217:9781896219219 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BOXCAR KID : A Novel [Norma Charles] For ages 8-12. In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they would move into hasn't been built. So the Godins have to make due with living in a railway boxcar with three other families. Luc's father and the many other newcomers to the Fraser Valley have come to work in the lumber industry. Their new home still has vestiges of the wilderness, and Luc and his family find find pioneering life difficult, especially as French speakers in a world of English. Luc's father, who becomes a teamster in one of the many lumber mills, is old-fashioned. Horses are what he knows, while Luc has an eye for the modern, particularly the new-fangled bicycles and occasional automobiles. However an accident with a bicycle has profound consequences for Luc and highlights the clash between the old and the new, the settled East and the brash frontier. { 120pp, 140x215mm, December 2007; PB, £6.99, 1550027557:9781550027556 , Dundurn Press (Sandcastle Books) } |
| BOY'S COTTAGE DIARY : 1904 [Fred Dickinson. Edited by Larry Turner] Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century. { 136pp, 135x210mm, June 1996; PB, £11.50, 096993811X:9780969938118 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA : Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997 [Carol Margaret Davison (ed)] In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyse Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." (from the Preface by Patrick McGrath). { 432pp, 155x230mm, July 1997; PB, £12.99, 1550022792:9781550022797 , Dundurn Press } |
| BREAKFAST AT THE HOITO : & Other Adventures in the Boreal Heartland [Charles Wilkins] This book brings together a collection of stones and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior's north shore ... on wilds and wildlife, people and places. Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay. Discover the secret life of ravens; the passions of the blueberry pick-er, the thrills and fears of the novice ice climber. Tour Silver Islet, an eccentric summer community that has evolved from the medics of what was once the world's richest silver mine; and the town of Schreiber, half of whose 2,000 residents trace their roots to the Italian city of Siderno. Visit a 16th-century pine forest, and meet Freda McDonald, one of Canada’s most respected aboriginal elders. Accompany the author on a refreshingly candid tour of contemporary Thunder Bay. { 182pp, 155x230mm, November 1997; PB, £12.99, 1896219330:9781896219332 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BREWED IN CANADA : The Untold Story of Canada's 300-Year-Old Brewing Industry [Allen Winn Sneath] The Canadian brewing industry predates Confederation by two hundred years; Canada boasts the oldest, continuously operating brewery in North America. Canadian brewers have survived the persecution of the Temperance Movement and Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars and the challenge of Free Trade. Today, brewing in Canada is a $10 billion business whose one constant is change. From its colonial past to the microbrewery renaissance, Brewed in Canada is a passionate narrative of individual power, colourful characters, family rivalries and foreign ownership. Individual stories tell of personal success and failure, bankruptcies, takeovers, consolidation and rationalisation. As men of influence, these brewers made significant contributions to their local communities and the country. Beyond the day-to-day operation of their brewing business, some would make their mark in politics, while others built churches, hospitals and helped establish universities. A commitment to community service -- and to brewing excellence -- continues today. { 431pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £12.99, 1550023640:9781550023640 , Dundurn Press } |
| BRIGHT'S KILL [J D Carpenter] When racehorse trainer Delbert 'Shorty' Rogers is found dead in a stall at Caledonia Downs, Homicide Detective Campbell Young is drawn into the investigation. Add to the mix a lottery winner, an Internet mogul, a reclusive land baron, his voluptuous helpmate and twin bodyguards, an eccentric environmentalist, a cast of backstretch characters reminiscent of Damon Runyon, and the murder of a thoroughbred racehorse named Download, and the scene is set. The possibility that the deaths of Rogers and Download are unrelated makes Young's task even more difficult. With the assistance of washed-up racetrack journalist Priam Harvey, Young sets out to solve the mysteries and bring the guilty to justice. { 336pp, 110x180mm, July 2005; PB, £6.50, 1550025643:9781550025644 , Dundurn Press } |
| BROADWAY NORTH : The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre [Mel Atkey] Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world's longest-running annual revue? Few people realise the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture. Author Mel Atkey's research for BROADWAY NORTH included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of Green Gables -- The Musical; Mavor Moore, founder of the Charlottetown Festival and of Spring Thaw; John Gray, author of Billy Bishop Goes to War; Ray Jessel and Marian Grudeff, Spring Thaw writers who had success on Broadway with Baker Street; Dolores Claman, composer of the Hockey Night In Canada theme, who also wrote the musicals Mr Scrooge and Timber; and Galt MacDermott, the composer of Hair who started out writing songs for the McGill University revue My Fur Lady. Atkey also draws on his own experience as a writer and composer of musicals, and tells the story of why a show that should have starred James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) didn't happen. { 311pp, 205x255mm, October 2006; PB, £20.99, 1897045085:9781897045084 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BROCKVILLE : The River City [Russ Disotell] Brockville's origins reach back to the resettlement of Loyalists following the American Revolution and the threat of American encroachment. Following the War of 1812, Brockville, along the St. Lawrence River, benefited greatly from the rapidly expanding colonisation. A centre for the political activity of the day and a focal point for the Orange movement, Brockville was often immersed in controversy. The end of the 19th century was the golden age of the patent medicine business and Brockville was home to two of the most successful, the W H Comstock Company and the G T Fulford Company. "Pink Pills for Pale People" were sold world-wide. Today, Brockville retains the charm of its heritage mansions and is home to a number of prominent industries. { 128pp, 155x230mm, October 1997; PB, £11.50, 1896219225:9781896219226 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BROKEN SHACKLES : Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom [Glenelg (John Frost); Edited by Peter Meyler] In 1889, 'Broken Shackles' was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of 'Broken Shackles' is available. Henson was a great storyteller and the spark of life shines through as he describes the horrors of slavery and his goal of escaping its tenacious hold. His times as a slave in Maryland, his refuge in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and his ultimate freedom in Canada are vividly depicted through his remembrances. The stories of Henson's family, friends and enemies will both amuse and shock the readers of this book. It is interesting to discover that his observations of life's struggles and triumphs are as relevant today as they were in his time. { 240pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £14.99, 1896219578:9781896219578 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BUCKSKIN & BROADCLOTH : A Celebration of E Pauline Johnson -- Tekahionwake, 1861-1913 [Sheila M F Johnston] This is the first generously illustrated biography of the Mohawk poet-performer E Pauline Johnson -- Tekahionwake. The author has created an exciting volume of anecdotes, letters and poetry, and illustrated it with period photographs and new illustrations by the Six Nations artist, Raymond R Skye. While the story of Pauline Johnson has been told before, it has never been given the intimacy that this book provides. Tracing her ancestry, moving on to explore her extraordinary stage career, and finally shedding light on Pauline Johnson's last years in Vancouver, Sheila M F Johnston has breathed new life into the compelling story of one of Canada's brightest literary and stage stars. This book contains over forty poems that are not part of Pauline Johnson's classic collection of poems, 'Flint and Feather'. The 'uncollected' poems have been culled from archives, libraries and out-of-print books. They shed light on the development of the poet, and enlighten and enrich her life story. This is truly a celebration of the life of a Canadian hero -- one whose legacy to Canadian literature and Canadian theatre is unparalleled. { 256pp, 205x255mm, November 1997; PB, £20.99, 1896219209:9781896219202 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| BUCKSKIN PIMPERNEL : The Exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist Spy [Mary Beacock Fryer] At the beginning of the American Revolution, Justus Sherwood left his young family in order to serve with the King's forces, first with General Burgoyne on his disastrous invasion of New York. He was soon appointed Supervisor of Spies and Prisoner Exchanges, and from his "Loyal Blockhouse" on Lake Champlain he sent out raiding parties and spying missions to harass the rebels in New York and England. { 288pp, 155x230mm, January 1981; PB, £4.99, 0919670571:9780919670570 , Dundurn Press } |
| BUTTERTEA AT SUNRISE : A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya [Britta Das] Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West. When Britta Das goes to work as a physiotherapist in a remote village hospital, her good intentions are put to the test amid monsoons, fleas, and startling conditions. But as she visits homes in the mountains and learns the mysteries of Tantric Buddhism, the country captivates her very soul. Gaining insights into the traditions of the mystical kingdom, Britta makes friends, falls in love, and battles illness. Throughout it all, as she writes, she worries about the "destructive nearness of technology" and fears that Bhutan’s charm and innocence may soon be lost. Still, Bhutan has endured for centuries, and there is no denying that the country has transformed her life forever. { 222pp, 155x230mm, May 2007; PB, £12.99, 1550026801:9781550026801 , Dundurn Press } |
| BY REASON OF INSANITY : The David Michael Krueger Story [Mark Bourrie] In the summer of 1993, people in Ontario were shocked by one of the most bizarre murders in the province's history. A patient at the Brockville psychiatric hospital was brutally killed in a forest grove on the grounds of the institution. One of the killers, a nearly blind psychiatric patient, walked into a nearby police station and turned himself in. The other murderer lay near the body in a sleeping bag, drugged into unconsciousness. Police found that the myopic suspect is one of the Canada's most dangerous killers, David Michael Krueger. His accomplice was Bruce Hamill, a murderer who had been freed after years of treatment at Penatanguishene's Oak Ridge Institution for the criminally insane. Brockville hospital authorities had let Hamill escort Krueger on his first day pass in thirty-five years. How could this killing have happened? The bizarre story of Krueger's life unfolds in this tightly-written book. It explores how Krueger allowed his strange fantasies to run his own life and how he was able to dupe psychiatrists, lawyers, and fellow inmates of the country's toughest institution into doing his bidding. { 159pp, 155x230mm, November 1997; PB, £9.99, 0888821964:9780888821966 , Dundurn Press (Hounslow Press) } |
| BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH : A Barkerville Mystery [Ann Walsh] For ages 10-15. Seventeen-year-old Ted MacIntosh befriends a young Chinese boy despite the intense prejudice seething in the frontier town. Ted suffers intimidation and violence at the hands of the cruel, arrogant Tremblay and his cronies, but with courage and conviction the young man stands up for what he believes and defends his Chinese friend. { 153pp, 135x210mm, August 2006; PB, £5.99, 1550026348:9781550026344 , Dundurn Press } |
| 'C' FORCE TO HONG KONG : A Canadian Catastrophe 1941-1945 [Brereton Greenhous] This is the story of a "no military risk" campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British duplicitous in making this request? Was Canadian Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, guilty of putting his own interests above those of his men in telling the minister of National Defence that there was "no military risk" in sending the "C" Force? The book recounts the formation of the "C" Force and its departure to Hong Kong where it arrived just three weeks before the Japanese attack. It outlines the course of the battle from December 8, 1941, until the inevitable surrender of the garrison on Christmas Day. It places appropriate emphasis on the Canadian contribution, refuting 1947 allegations by the British General-Officer-Commanding -- allegations which were only made public in 1993 -- that the Canadians did not fight well. Greenhous attacks these charges with solid evidence from participants and eye-witnesses. Finally, the book tells the story of life and death in the prison camps of Hong Kong and Japan. { 158pp, 155x230mm, August 1997; HB, £13.99, 1550022679:9781550022674 , Dundurn Press } |
| CABIN : A Search for Personal Sanctuary [Hap Wilson] One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes, fast flowing rivers, mystery and adventure. Newcomb befriended the local Aboriginals -- the Deep Water People -- and quickly discovered the best way to explore was by canoe. Bewitched by the spirit of an interior river named after the elusive brook trout, Majamagosibi, Newcomb had a remote cabin built overlooking one of her precipitous cataracts. The cabin remained unused for decades, save for a few passing canoeists; it changed ownership twice and slowly began to show its age. The author discovered the cabin while on a canoe trip in 1970. Like Newcomb, Hap Wilson was lured to Temagami in pursuit of adventure and personal sanctuary. That search for sanctuary took the author incredible distances by canoe and snowshoe, through near death experiences and Herculean challenges. Secretly building cabins, homesteading and working as a park ranger, Wilson finally became owner of The Cabin in 2000. { 175pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £17.50, 1897045050:9781897045053 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| CALEDONIA : Along the Grand River [Barbara Martindale] Caledonia, just south of Hamilton, has a history closely tied to the heritage of the Grand River. From the Grand River Navigation Company of the 1830s to the current nine-span bridge in the centre of town, the river and the community have shared a special relationship. Intriguing entrepreneurs, town characters and prominent citizens have touched the life of Caledonia, leaving a legacy that is fascinating, sometimes amusing and richly anecdotal. { 128pp, 140x215mm, July 1995; PB, £11.50, 0920474810:9780920474815 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| CALGARY ALBUM : Glimpses of the Way We Were [Mark & Janice Kozub] Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was best left to the trapper and trader. Nurtured by a sense of vision and the sweat of good old-fashioned hard work, Calgary grew, and has now blossomed into a world-class cosmopolitan city noted for its burgeoning oil and gas industry, its famed Calgary Zoo, and of course, the Stampede. A Calgary Album is a sentimental journey into a cattle town that grew to be so much more. Through sixty-five glorious black and white photographs and engaging storytelling, the authors take the reader back to the time of the "real" cowboys, to the days when the streetcar seemed like science fiction, through the Depression, the great wars, the times of boom, bust, and recovery. We revisit the movers, the shakers, and the honourable everyday people who turned this "cow town" into a city worth bragging about. { 140pp, 280x215mm, February 2000; PB, £9.99, 0888822243:9780888822246 , Dundurn Press } |
| CALL ME TRUE : A Biography of True Davidson [Eleanor Darke] In this investigation of the life and varied careers of True Davidson, Eleanor Darke seeks to discover what can be "truly said about True" -- a fascinating and contradictory woman who was always ahead of her time. { 181pp, 155x230mm, October 1997; PB, £11.50, 1896219349:9781896219349 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| CANADA & THE LIBERATION OF THE NETHERLANDS, MAY 1945 [Lance Goddard] Nazi Germany's invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people. They faced oppression and death with remarkable stoicism, but nothing could save them from the Hunger Winter of 1944-5, when more than 30,000 people died of starvation. In this time of unimaginable despair, Canada came to the rescue, playing the largest role in liberating the Netherlands and ending the Nazi reign of terror. The Canadians gave the Dutch freedom -- and food -- and out of such dark times an eternal friendship was forged. Told through interviews with Dutch survivors and Canadian veterans, Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands, May 1945 delves into this little known chapter of history. { 240pp, 230x225mm, May 2005; PB, £15.99, 1550025473:9781550025477 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADA COMPANY & THE HURON TRACT, 1826-1853 : Personalities, Profits & Politics [Robert C Lee] The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. The author focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with responsibilities for the Company and the overall impact of its operations, leading to its present-day legacy. The politics of the day, coupled with diverse and colourful personalities -- such as John Galt, Tiger Dunlop, William Allan, Thomas Mercer Jones, Frederick Widder, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Bishop Macdonnell and Bishop Strachan -- introduce an interesting blend of vision, intrigue, mischief and day-to-day survival strategies that make for compelling reading. Add to this the shareholders’ perspective of the Company versus the settlers’ perspective and you have a fascinating glimpse of pioneer conditions. Included are descriptions of early towns such as Guelph and Goderich, as well as background on the Huron Tract township names. { 304pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £17.50, 1896219942:9781896219943 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN : The War So Far [Peter Pigott] It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both. As the war escalates in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking what we are doing there. For a country that has specialised in peacekeeping, this war is a shock -- one that we have not yet comprehended. As the casualties mount, Canadians will want to know why we are there. "Canada in Afghanistan" introduces readers to Afghans and their culture, gives historical background from our involvement since 9/11, and covers operations casualties and the results. Also included is an examination of a new strategic experiment -- the provincial reconstruction team and the technological advances used in this war. Cautionary predictions conclude the book. This is an introduction to what is happening in Afghanistan and what we can expect up to 2009. { 228pp, 155x230mm, June 2007; HB, £15.99, 1550026747:9781550026740 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADA'S BIG HOUSE : The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary [Peter H Hennessy] A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors:... [shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not affecting the health of the offender, [but] shall be rendered so irksome and so terrible that during his lifetime he may dread nothing so much as a repetition of the punishment... The obvious contradiction within this historical mandate of Canada's Big House has bedevilled the entire history of the jail. Its original high moral purpose -- penitence through silent reflection -- drifted away into the foggy realm of official myth almost as soon as the first convicts arrived in 1835. This semi-documentary study of the Kingston Penitentiary by a local writer and historian lays bare in cool prose the rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management. For the first seventy-five years, repression was accepted as the norm, even applauded, by the local citizens, some of the inmates, and the political establishment. Over the last hundred years, repressive practices at Kingston Peneitentiary have been publicised, analyzed, and increasingly denounced. In the outcome, the Big House at Kingston has become almost unmanageable. What to do with it? The question still hangs in the air. { 210pp, 155x230mm, November 1999; PB, £11.99, 1550023306:9781550023305 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADA'S ENEMIES : Spies & Spying in the Peaceable Kingdom [Graeme S Mount] From German conspiracies along Ontario's borders to monitoring mail between Canadian communists and Moscow, Canada's Enemies explores previously ignored and newly declassified documents from European, American, and Canadian archives. { 158pp, 155x230mm, July 1996; HB, £12.99, 1550021907:9781550021905 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADA'S PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS [Mark Bourrie] This book takes you behind the scenes of Parliament Hill, examining the architecture, heraldry, and history of the buildings. { 120pp, 155x230mm, November 1996; PB, £8.99, 0888821905:9780888821904 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN EXPLORATION LITERATURE [Germaine Warkentin (ed)] First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, this is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent. With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, "Canadian Exploration Literature" is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood. { 599pp, 155x230mm, September 2006; PB, £12.99, 1550026615:9781550026610 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION OF 2006 [Jon Pammett & Christopher Dornan (eds)] A comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons shift from one minority government to another. The chapters, composed by leading political writers, commentators, and pollsters, examine the strategies, successes, and blunders of the major players -- the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois, and Greens -- and also explore the role of the media coverage and the performance and influence of public opinion polls. Special features in this definitive volume explore the way candidates are nominated and the changes in the legislation governing Canadian federal elections. Finally, the book includes a detailed analysis of voting patterns and the rate of voter participation. { 357pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; PB, £16.99, 155002650X:9781550026504 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1945-2000 : Major Documents & Speeches [Arthur E Blanchette (ed)] This is a collection of the key documents and speeches tracing the evolution of Canadian foreign policy since 1945. { 262pp, 155x230mm, December 2000; PB, £14.99, 0919614892:9780919614895 , Dundurn Press (Golden Dog Press) } |
| CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION OF 2000 [Christopher Dornan & Jon H Pammett (eds)] Many saw it as a gamble for Jean Chrétien: against the advice of party members, he called an early election. But the gamble paid off, and the Liberal Party cruised to their third straight majority government. The Canadian General Election of 2000 is the authoritative study of the campaign and election. As with previous volumes in the Canadian General Election series, the 2000 edition includes analyses of: -- the campaigns of all five major parties -- the roles of the print and electronic media, including the internet -- the pre-election polls -- voting behaviour across the country Articles are contributed by some of the most recognizable political writers, commentators, and pollsters, including: Edward Greenspon., Stephen Clarkson, Faron Ellis, Alan Whitehorn, Peter Woolstencroft, André Bernard, Paul Attallah, Mary McGuire, Janice Neil, Michael Marzolini, and André Turcotte. { 352pp, 155x230mm, June 2001; PB, £12.99, 155002356X:9781550023565 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION OF 2004 [Jon H Pammett & Christopher Dornan] The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of: The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller parties; The role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaigns; The pre-election polls; Voting patterns across the country; The rise in non-voting. Articles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers, commentators and pollsters, including: Stephen Clarkson, Faron Ellis, and Peter Woolstencroft, Alan Whitehorn, Alain Gagnon, Susan Harada, Tamara Small, Christopher Waddell, Paul Attallah, Michael Marzolini, Andre Turcotte and Lawrence Leduc. { 390pp, 155x230mm, October 2004; PB, £17.99, 1550025163:9781550025163 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN HERALDIC PRIMER [Kevin Greaves; Illustrated by Bruce Patterson & Gordon Macpherson] Heraldry is now. Heraldry is fun. And most of all, heraldry is Canadian! A Canadian Heraldic Primer dispels, once and for all, the myth that coats of arms are boring, snobbish, mediaeval holdovers that have no relevance today. Using cartoons, humour, and not a little irreverence (in which is concealed a surprising amount of information), Kevin Greaves explains the history behind heraldry's unique conventions and language, and explores its creative possibilities. He shows heraldry as part of the fabric of Canada's past, present, and future, and illustrates how this lively art has become livelier since Canada became master of its own heraldic system in 1988. { 56pp, 140x215mm, December 2000; PB, £7.99, 0969306342:9780969306344 , Dundurn Press (Heraldry Society of Canada) } |
| CANADIAN HOME : From Cave to Electronic Cocoon [Marc Denhez; Foreword by Pierre Berton] Would you want to live in a factory-moulded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonise with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders' Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of bureaucrats, developers, architects, and financiers and how they affect the quality, affordability, and choice of our housing today. Fiery debates over the sublime and the ridiculous (e.g. 1940s architectural articles on whether Toronto should be bombed) are set against the backdrop of Canadian politics and industrial history. Whether the reader's interest is in construction, politics, or home decor, this book explains why the roof over our heads is the way it is." Pierre Berton "In his fascinating study of Canadian shelter, Marc Denhez takes us on a 20,000-year journey from the days of the cave, the tipi, and the igloo, to the H-bomb shelter and the mobile home. This is, in short, a lively as well as an erudite study of the development of housing . [It] deserves a permanent position on any library shelf." "If you live in a house or own one or build one if you have a roof over your head read this book. A housing book with punch and humour immensely enjoyable." Charles Lynch author, journalist and former governor of Heritage Canada. { 256pp, 215x280mm, July 1996; HB, £19.99, 1550022024:9781550022025 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN HONOURS SYSTEM [Christorpher McCreery] Since the creation of the Canadian honours system in 1967, more than 250,000 Canadians have been rewarded, yet little has been written about it. This full-colour illustrated book recounts the history of Canada's various national orders, decorations, and medals, from New France's Croix de St Louis, through the British Order of the Bath, to modern Canadian awards such as the General Campaign Star. Each award in the modern Canadian honours system is examined in detail, including historical background, design, and criteria for bestowal. With special chapters on heraldry, protocol, and the proper mounting and wear of medals, it is an essential reference for anyone interested in Canadian honours. { 408pp, 150x230mm, April 2005; HB, £30.00, 1550025546:9781550025545 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN KINGS OF REPERTOIRE : The Story of the Marks Brothers [Michael V Taylor] The Marks Brothers may well have been the most remarkable theatrical family in Canadian history. A phenomenon on the vaudeville circuit, the seven brothers left the farm and took to the boards and the footlights throughout the latter part of the 19th century and into the 1920s. The brothers from Christie Lake, near Perth in Eastern Ontario, played to an estimated eight million Canadians, as well as to sizeable audiences in the United States. Their road shows, largely melodramas and comedy, kept audiences crying, booing, laughing and cheering until movies sounded the death knell for touring repertory companies. The publication of this book brings back for one more curtain call the seven Marks boys, top hats, diamond rings and all. Joining them in a farewell performance are their glamorous leading ladies and a superb cast of supporting players. So clear the aisles and up with the curtain. It's showtime once more. { 176pp, 205x255mm, October 2001; PB, £16.50, 1896219764:9781896219769 , Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) } |
| CANADIAN MOSAIC : 6 Plays [Aviva Ravel (ed)] The six plays in this anthology have been selected to reflect the wide spectrum of ethnic communities in this country. { 256pp, 155x230mm, July 1996; PB, £11.99, 088924264X:9780889242647 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN MOSAIC II : 6 Plays [Aviva Ravel (ed)] This is the second volume in a series written by Canadian playwrights. { 336pp, 155x230mm, November 1996; PB, £11.99, 0889242747:9780889242746 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS : The Untold Story of Canada's Cold War Arsenal [John Clearwater] "We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons." Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978 From 1963 to 1984, US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and West Germany. It is likely that during the early part of this period, the Canadian military was putting more effort, money, and manpower into the nuclear commitment than any other single activity. This important book is an operational-technical history and exposé of this period. Its purpose is to bring together until-recently secret information about the nature of the nuclear arsenal in Canada, and combine it with known information about the systems in the US nuclear arsenal. The work begins with an account of the efforts of the Pearson government to sign the agreement with the US necessary to bring nuclear weapons to Canada. Subsequent chapters provide a detailed discussion of the four nuclear weapons systems deployed by Canada: the BOMARC surface-to-air guided interceptor missile; the Honest John short range battlefield rocket; the Starfighter tactical thermonuclear bomber; the VooDoo-Genie air defence system. Each chapter also includes a section on the accidents and incidents which occurred while the weapons were at Canadian sites. The final chapter covers the ultimately futile efforts of the Maritime Air Command and the Royal Canadian Navy to acquire nuclear weapons. An appendix includes the text of the until-now secret agreements Canada signed with the USA for the provision of nuclear weapons. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams, and supported by extensive transcriptions of original documents, Canadian Nuclear Weapons will be of great value both to scholars and interested laypersons in its presentation of what has been a deeply hidden secret of Canadian political and military history. { 309pp, 155x230mm, February 1998; PB, £11.99, 1550022997:9781550022995 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN INDOCHINA, 1954-1973 : Recollections [Edited by Arthur E Blanchette; Preface by Mitchell Sharp] This is a collection of personal reminiscences and first-hand recollections of diplomatic service in war-torn Indochina beginning in the late 1950s with the International Supervisory Commission and concluding with the last days of that terrible and desperate war in Viet Nam. These remarkable essays throw much new light on Canada's foreign policy in the far east, and they also provide us with rare insights into the ill-fated American operations. Contributors range from those who served with ambassadorial rank to those who lent support in more modest capacities. { 250pp, January 2002; PB, £14.99, 0919614965:9780919614963 , Dundurn Press } |
| CANADIAN POLITICS UNPLUGGED [Eric Nicol & Peter Whalley] Canadian politics is/are not well understood, no authority being prepared to say whether it/they is/are singular or plural. Canadian Politics Unplugged br |