ca. 1910 à 1919

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Through Their Eyes

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps ...

Canada 1919

With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War, as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future.

Veterans returned home full of both sorrow ...

The Spoon Stealer

Par (auteur) Lesley Crewe
Catégories: Littérature générale

Emmeline has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime—from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill. She is a compulsive spoon stealer. When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she ...

The Frontier of Patriotism

Adriana A. Davies is a writer, editor, and poet, and is the founding executive director of the Heritage Community Foundation. Jeff Keshen is dean of arts at Mount Royal University.

Readers will come away ...

Deadly Skies

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Un ciel meurtrier : Guerre aérienne, 1914-1918
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Go beyond the dogfights and immerse yourself in the captivating stories of six people, from both sides of the ...

Catching the Torch

Par (auteur) Neta Gordon
Catégories: Études littéraires

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada’s participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack ...

Soldiers of Song

Par (auteur) Jason Wilson
Catégories: La Première Guerre mondiale

The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of The Wayne and Shuster Hour and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting ...

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land

Par (auteur) Susan Fisher
Catégories: La Première Guerre mondiale

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school ...

From Victoria to Vladivostok

This groundbreaking book brings to a life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. ...