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History

BERTON, Pierre

Military

Viking Pr

Why we act like Canadians: A personal exploration of our national character

Penguin Books Australia

Recounts the only American invasion of Canada, during the War of 1812, which neither side won, and argues that Indian, Canadian, British, and American blood was shed for no positive purpose

The Invasion of Canada, 1812-1813

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Chronicles the fierce border war fought between Canada and the United States, a war that involved the Indians, who fought valiantly under Tecumseh on the Canadian side against a series of incompetent and corrupt American commanders

Flames Across the Border, 1813-1814

Americas

This revisionist history of the search for the Northwest passage and the North Pole covers the entire period of the expeditions involved and focuses on the lives, personalities, achievements, and claims of the explorers themselves

The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909

After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers â€” a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Promised Land: Settling the West, 1896-1914

In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness — was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation. Using primary sources — diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers — Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe — contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists and entrepreneurs — fought for the railway, or against it. The National Dream is above all else the story of people. It is the story of George McMullen, the brash young promoter who tried to blackmail the Prime Minister; of Marcus Smith, the crusty surveyor, so suspicious of authority he thought the Governor General was speculating in railway lands; of Sanford Fleming, the great engineer who invented Standard Time but who couldn't make up his mind about the best route for the railway. All these figures, and dozens more, including the political leaders of the era, come to life with all their human ambitions and failings.

The National Dream : The Great Railway, 1871-1881

Starting Out

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

Describes the political and financial problems that had to be overcome to complete Canada's first transcontinental railway

The Last Spike

The complete saga of the pursuit for two of the world's greatest geographical prizes--the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific, and the North Pole.

The Arctic Grail : The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909

World

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