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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

CEBAdmin — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:49:51 +0000

I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is. By this means some of the blame for what he has done is very properly shifted to the extenuating circumstances of his life. I was born [...]

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The Mariner of St. Malo

CEBAdmin — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:48:35 +0000

In the town hall of the seaport of St Malo there hangs a portrait of Jacques Cartier, the great sea-captain of that place, whose name is associated for all time with the proud title of 'Discoverer of Canada.' The picture is that of a bearded man in the prime of life, standing on the deck [...]

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Literary Lapses

CEBAdmin — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:43:51 +0000

The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in Literary Lapses, his first collection of comic writings. Within its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young man who dies [...]

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The Dawn of Canadian History

CEBAdmin — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:41:43 +0000

We always speak of Canada as a new country. In one sense, of course, this is true. The settlement of Europeans on Canadian soil dates back only three hundred years. Civilization in Canada is but a thing of yesterday, and its written history, when placed beside the long millenniums of the recorded annals of European [...]

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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CEBAdmin — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:35:36 +0000

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich has both a timeless and timely relevance in the way Leacock sees through pretension and hypocrisy in the areas of education, politics, classism, naïve religion and spirituality—he also points the way to a better way of thinking and being. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a Canadian classic [...]

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The Farfarers

CEBAdmin — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:08:50 +0000

Titles by Farley Mowat

Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
Owls in the Family
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens
Eastern Passage

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The Story of Canada

CEBAdmin — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 03:56:44 +0000

From the first Viking setting foot on what is now Canadian soil through to WWII, this book brings to life major events from the history of the Dominion. The Story of Canada is the very definition of a living book. Stories are told in a variety of forms, including plays, diaries, letters, and more, ensuring that [...]

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With Wolfe in Canada – Or the Winning of a Continent

CEBAdmin — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:06:16 +0000

Through misadventure, the hero of the story, James Walsham, becomes involved in the historic struggle between Britain and France for supremacy on the North American continent. The issue of this war determined not only the destinies of North America but to a large extent those of the mother countries themselves. With Wolfe in Canada will take the reader through many battles of this conflict. Meet a young George Washington and General Braddock as they fight the French and Indians, join up with Rogers’ Rangers, and learn of the legendary generals Wolfe and Montcalm.

This classic provides a lesson in history instructively and graphically, whilst infusing into the dead facts of history new life. Mr. Henty’s classic With Wolfe in Canada is a useful aid to study as well as amusement.

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Hudson Bay

CEBAdmin — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:00:18 +0000

Combining anthropological observations with descriptions of landscapes, plants, and animals, the account was applauded by the Dundee Courier for ‘opening up a mine of information to the curious’ and ‘describing the everyday life of a novel and singular existence’ with ‘buoyancy and animation’.

Appearing within a year of the first edition in 1848, the second edition reproduced here is illustrated throughout with views and vignettes. ‘Free from tedious details and unnecessary wordiness’, Ballantyne’s fast-moving and readable narrative challenges many misconceptions about nineteenth-century Canada and its indigenous peoples.

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The Curve of Time

CEBAdmin — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:24:44 +0000

The 50th anniversary edition of this BC classic, now in hardcover, will make a timeless keepsake. This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. Muriel Wylie Blanchet [...]

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Shadows On the Rock

CEBAdmin — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:07:08 +0000

In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas creche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends—and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder.

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The Firebrand

CEBAdmin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:07:31 +0000

In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie. A skilled historian and an entertaining writer, Kilbourn reveals Mackenzie’s complex character: able political editor, shrewd recorder of his times, efficient first mayor of Toronto, and gadfly of the House of Assembly. Kilbourn vividly recreates the ill-fated Mackenzie-led march on [...]

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