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Peace in Peril, The

Christopher Pollon is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, and the Globe and Mail. Ben Nelms is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Maclean’s ...

Gold Rush!

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Ruée vers l’or ! Eldorado en Colombie-Britannique
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Some say that Western Canada began with the railway. In fact, it began with a gold rush. Relive the tumultuous ...

Dam Builders

Few animals in the world are as famous or as infamous as the beaver, and none save our species has the ability to so dramatically transform its environment. Beavers are remarkable animals. They have teeth ...

Historical GIS Research in Canada

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing ...

Peopling the North American City

Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages of ...

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher

From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ...

Outrageous Seas

By (author) Rainer K. Baehre
Categories: Geography
Series: Carleton Library Series

There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country’s social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, ...