Authors Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/canadian-history/authors/ Conveniently Canadian Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:56:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://classic.powertactics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/favicon-32x32.png Authors Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/canadian-history/authors/ 32 32 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town https://classic.powertactics.com/product/sunshine-sketches-of-a-little-town/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/sunshine-sketches-of-a-little-town/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:49:51 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=34296 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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/sunshine-sketches-of-a-little-town/feed/ 0 The Mariner of St. Malo https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-mariner-of-st-malo/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-mariner-of-st-malo/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:48:35 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=34295 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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/literary-lapses/feed/ 0 The Dawn of Canadian History https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-dawn-of-canadian-history/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-dawn-of-canadian-history/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:41:43 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=34292 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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-dawn-of-canadian-history/feed/ 0 Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich https://classic.powertactics.com/product/arcadian-adventures-with-the-idle-rich/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/arcadian-adventures-with-the-idle-rich/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:35:36 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=34287 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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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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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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/eastern-passage/feed/ 0 Otherwise https://classic.powertactics.com/product/otherwise/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/otherwise/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:12:29 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=33994 A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist. Otherwise is a memoir of the years between 1937 and the autumn of 1948 that tells the story of the events that forged the writer and activist. His was an innocent childhood, spent free of normal [...]

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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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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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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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-boat-who-wouldnt-float/feed/ 0 The Curse of the Viking Grave https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-curse-of-the-viking-grave/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-curse-of-the-viking-grave/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:43:41 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=33988 The popular sequel to his award-winning Lost in the Barrens, this is Farley Mowat’s suspense-filled story of how Awasin, Jamie and Peetryuk, three adventure-prone boys, stumble upon a cache of Viking relics in an ancient tomb somewhere in the north of Canada. Packed with excitement and with little-known information about the customs of Viking explorers, [...]

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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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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-curse-of-the-viking-grave/feed/ 0 The Black Joke https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-black-joke/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-black-joke/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:39:04 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=33986 The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. And the ship is the “Black Joke,” the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast – Jonathon Spence, owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes [...]

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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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