Dictionary of Canadian Biography


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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail.







Work of Words


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Susanna Moodie has long been acknowledged as a key figure in pre-Confederation Canadian literature but most of her work has been overlooked or ignored by scholars and readers. The Work of Words not only provides the first comprehensive examination of the whole of Moodie's writing but also revolutionizes Moodie scholarship by overturning the myths that have cast her as pioneer heroine, one-woman garrison, or paranoid schizophrenic.










Ontario and the Canadian North


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Third in a series of comprehensive bibliographies of local history. Histories of exploration of the Canadian North as precursors of specific settlement histories. Gives library locations for all titles cited.




The St. Andrew's Chronicles


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On the occasion of Belleville's centennial celebration as a city (1878-1978).




Canadian Selection


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