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Canada’s Bastions of Empire

Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918

This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. … 280 View
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Earthkeeping

love notes to tough times

The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, … 316 View

South End Boy

Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s

In this memoir Jim Bennet introduces us to Halifax of the 1930s and ’40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs, chuffing freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader along with … 143 View
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Foreword

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Forward from Tom Dawe, St. John’s Poet Laureate from 2010-13. 1 $0.10 Add
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Introduction

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explains how the information of Canada’s defenses on the homefront are missing from the historical account of the Great War, outlines some geo-political information of importance to the … 9 $0.90 Add
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Preface

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1930s and 1940s Halifax 3 $0.30 Add
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Home

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1930s and 1940s Halifax. Talks about the house he grew up in 7 $0.70 Add
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Introduction: Nature under Glass?

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The Introduction reflects on nature from a child’s perspective and the lessons to be learned. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Watch Is Set, 1749–1858

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examines how Britain had made Canada part of its strategic thinking for more than 150 years before war broke out in 1914, with focus on the naval basis in Halifax and Victoria 24 $2.40 Add
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Sounds

From: South End Boy

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1930s and 1940s Halifax. Sounds of the city/time 5 $0.50 Add
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The Life Rural

Part One

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Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … 19 $1.90 Add
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Threat and Response, 1858–1905

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Mostly dealing with relations with America during this time it analyzes Canadian responses to threats during this period, including the Alaska boundary 50 $5.00 Add
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Ecology

Part Two

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Part Two contains the sections: Peeper Spring, Cornsequences, Chipmunk Penance, Nova Scotia’s 2003 Floods, A Calendar of Roadside Flowers, Tough Little Trees of the Fringe, Leaf Thief I and Leaf … 37 $3.70 Add
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Rumours of War, 1906–1914

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How Britain involved the Dominion in new defense challenges and the emergency of Germany as a potential enemy, immigration issues during this period 38 $3.80 Add
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Smells

From: South End Boy

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1930s and 1940s Halifax. Smells of the city/time 6 $0.60 Add
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Defences, Defenders, and the Coming of War, August 1914

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Canadian preperations for war, defense of the two fortresses in Halifax and Victoria involved joint army and navy plans 31 $3.10 Add