Product Description During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an ''''Indian lover, '''' Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential in convincing the tribes to fight for the British. The Americans declared Girty an outlaw. In U.S. history books he is a villain even worse than Benedict Arnold. Yet in Canada, Girty is regarded as a Loyalist hero, and a historic plaque marks the site of his homestead on the Ontario side of the Detroit River. In Native history, Girty stands out as one of the few white men who championed their cause against American expansion. But was he truly the ''''White Savage'''' of legend, or a hero whose story was twisted by his foes About the Author Edward Butts is the author of numerous books, including Murder, Line of Fire, Running With Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior (16pt Large Print Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Butts, Edward

Community & Culture

ReadHowYouWant

Statement no. 1: The Swastika

History

Wentworth Press

Convincing proof that Canadian history is anything but dull, this book recounts the action-filled careers of some of the country's most successful and violent adventurers, licit and illicit. From Elizabethan privateers seeking fortune off the coasts of Newfoundland to the courtly warriors of Acadia, from the wildly successful letter-of-marque ships of Liverpool, Nova Scotia to the vicious sea fights of the War of 1812, Horwood and Butts reconstruct the lives of the country's finest fighting seamen. Inland, they consider the less reputable careers of the gangs who fought for control of gold and timber in the raw frontier settlements that would one day be Canada. Featuring plently of fast-paced action Bandits and Privateers brings the excitement of Canadian history to life.

Bandits and Privateers: Canada in the Age of Gunpowder (Goodread Biographies)

Horwood, Harold

Americas

Goodread Biography

Can a verb complain about being irregular? Can the pronoun it suffer an identity crisis? Can a proper noun be an insufferable snob? 
Should grammar be delightfully funny? 
You bet! 
Idioms for Aliens is the perfect tool for taking stuffy preconceptions out of the teaching of grammar. ESOL, struggling students, or anyone that needs a light-hearted look at the sometimes baffling rules of English will love this supplement to daily grammar instruction. 
Produce these plays informally in your classroom, or stage them for your school. Students may forget they’re learning as they enjoy the off-beat humor and memorable characters. Everyone will find something appealing (and informative) in these twenty-five plays and verses. 
Includes a CD of Microsoft Word® files—so you can customize the scripts for your classroom—and audio recordings of three plays that you can use as models.

Idioms for Aliens: A Grammar Revue of Plays and Verse

Reference

Butts, Ed

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Maupin House Publishing

The Civil Engineer's Field-Book: Designed for the Use of the Locating Engineer. Containing Tables of Actual Tangents, and Arcs Expressed in Chords of ... a 1O Curve to a 10O Curve, Inclusive; Als

Science & Math

Stubblefield, J L.

Technology

Nabu Press

This great collection of stories strange but true is for every reader who loves history -- and mystery. Edward Butts weaves true tales -- the wreck of the Francis and the weird connection to Edward, Duke of Kent; the sea voyage of Charles Coghlan's coffin; Captain Jack Randell the rum-runner; Al Capone's gunman Bugs Moran and more!This collection offers the lore and legend of some of the greatest stories of Atlantic Canada's history.

Rum, Blood & Treasure: Stories Strange and True from Atlantic Canada

Formac

A charming tale of history, creativity, natural inspiration, and a love of gardening. In 1913, Howard Dunington-Grubb and his wife, Lorrie, bought a small plot of land near Sheridan, Ontario, for the cultivation of ornamental plants. Local farmers thought they were crazy. But Howard and Lorrie, landscape architects recently arrived from England, were visionaries who dreamed of creating magnificent gardens in the colonial wasteland. Realizing that Canada had no nurseries that produced the plants they needed, they started one of their own. To manage it they hired Herman Stensson, an expert nurseryman whose references included one from the crown prince of Denmark.The chronicles of the Dunington-Grubbs and the Stensson family form the basis for the incredible history of Sheridan Nurseries, enhanced by the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the many people who helped turn a dream into success. This Canadian saga reaches from the monuments of Toronto’s University Avenue and Niagara’s Oakes Garden Theatre to hundreds of parks and estates, and perhaps even your own backyard.

Sheridan Nurseries: One Hundred Years of People, Plans, and Plants

Business & Money

Stensson, Karl

Biography & History

Dundurn Press

Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder. 
English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario. The Newton Brothers’ Gang, outlaws from Texas, engage in a gunfight with bank guards on the streets of Toronto, and a former Canadian Pacific Railway engineer masterminds a sensational kidnapping in Colorado. No matter where the atrocities were committed and no matter what the circumstances, these individuals all had one thing in common: they lived on the wrong side of the law.

Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime

Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior

Travelers & Explorers

Bandits &amp; Renegades presents some of the most unusual true crime stories in the annals of crime. Canadians take pride in the knowledge that, in the dark days of slavery in the American South, their country was the land of freedom for people fleeing bondage by way of the Underground Railroad. However, it is a little-known anomaly of history that a Canadian-born woman named Patty Cannon not only hunted down escaping slaves for reward money, but kidnapped both free and enslaved black people who were subsequently sold to distant plantations.Canadian high school students learn of the Fenian invasions of 1866, when pro-Irish nationalists tried to make Canada a pawn in their struggle for Ireland’s independence from British rule. Few Canadians know of Clan-an-Gael, who in 1900, sought to resurrect the Fenian cause by blowing up the Welland Canal. Canada’s Atlantic coast was a notorious haven for pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries; and in the 19th century outlaws robbed trains and stagecoaches, and rustled cattle in Western Canada.Then in the early 20th century, a desperado named Henry Wagner combined piracy and brigandage to prey on victims along the coast of Vancouver Island. A string of the Depression Era bank robbers of the 1930s had the dubious distinction of being marked by the FBI as Public Enemy Number One: John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, a career criminal who was next on the FBI’s most wanted list, was a Canadian.Quebec’s Georges Lemay, who pulled one of the biggest bank burglaries in Canadian history, and was a suspect in the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful young wife, was also an elusive fugitive whose run from the law made him a folk hero.These six stories make Bandits &amp; Renegades: Historical True Crime Stories a must read for anyone with an interest in true crime. INCLUDES PHOTOSTrue Stories Inside the BookPatty Cannon: Devil WomanEddie Guerin: The Man From Devil’s IslandClan-na-Gael: Attack on the Welland CanalHenry Wagner: Pirate of the Georgia StraitOld Creepy: The Saga of Alvin KarpisGeorges Lemay: Tunnel Man

Bandits & Renegades: Historical True Crime Stories: A Crimes Canada Special Edition (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked the Nation)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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