Subjects:  1. Bible    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Church and the world    4. Criticism, interpretation, etc    5. Frye, Northrop    6. Literary    7. Philosophy    8. Religion    9. Religious    10. Sermons    11. Canada    12. Philosophy / Religious    13. Philosophy of religion    14. Western philosophy, from c 1900 -   

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Subjects:  1. (Robert William),    2. 1874-1958    3. 20th century    4. Authors, Canadian    5. Authors, Scottish    6. Biography    7. Biography & Autobiography    8. Biography / Autobiography    9. Biography/Autobiography    10. Canada    11. Gold discoveries    12. Historical - British    13. Klondike River Valley (Yukon)    14. Literary    15. Scots    16. Service, Robert W    17. Biography & Autobiography / Literary    18. Biography & Autobiography/Historical - General    19. Biography: historical    20. British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900    21. British & Irish history: from c 1900 -    22. Chronological Period/1851-1899    23. Cultural Region/Canadian    24. Cultural Region/Pacific Northwest    25. France    26. Geographic Orientation/Alaska    27. Geographic Orientation/Yukon    28. Gold in literature    29. Historiography    30. In literature   

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A powerful tribute to one woman's will to survive!
Wow-this book was so fun and sad and interesting to read, all at the same time. Olive's story is piercing and makes one ponder the amazing will to live in the face of such overwhelming odds. A fantastic true adventure story!

Sad but wonderful
A story of a courageous strong woman.Descriptions of the environment (land & conditions) enticing.I found myself being scared right along side of Olive.A real adventure story.

Action packed,full of suspense story , good for all ages.
A fresh, uncomplicated tale of the people who adventured north in the past. Action packed, engaging and reveling, this book will remain for ever one of my favorite adventureand romance stories. It showsmuch about howpeople may face a foreign environment, difficulties, and above allthemselves. All comes out in very simple and clear language, with suits thestory and the characters divinely. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alberta    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. British Columbia    5. Canada - General    6. Fredrickson, Olive A    7. History    8. History: World    9. Military - General    10. Pioneers    11. Women    12. Women pioneers    13. Travel / Polar Regions   

Subjects:  1. 1778-1829    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Canada    6. General    7. Military History (General)    8. Salaberry, Charles Michel d'Ir    9. Soldiers    10. Salaberry, Charles Michel d'Irumberry de   

Subjects:  1. Canada, Western    2. Congresses    3. History    4. History - U.S.    5. History: American    6. Human geography    7. North American    8. Power (Social sciences)    9. United States - State & Local - General    10. West (U.S.)    11. North America    12. USA    13. World history   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Folklore    3. General    4. History - General History    5. Italians    6. Montreal    7. Montrâeal    8. Quebec (Province)    9. Quâebec (Province)    10. Social Science    11. Social Science / Ethnic Studies    12. Sociology    13. Women immigrants    14. Women's Studies - General    15. Canada    16. Emigration & Immigration    17. Ethnic Studies - General    18. Ethnic studies    19. Immigrants    20. Italian American women    21. Italian Canadians    22. Italy    23. Quebec    24. Social Science / Women's Studies    25. Sociology - General    26. Women's Studies   

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography And Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Canada - History    5. General    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. British Columbia    10. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Emigration and immigration    3. History: American    4. Maritime Provinces    5. Oral History    6. Social History    7. Canada    8. Shipping industries   

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And she's still on her way...
Awesome biography with great sense of detail in the information... Great info about Shania's life...
Oh Brother
This is to (Larry S, "Mad Puppy") AWWWWWWW poor shania grew up poor. Well so do alot of people including myself. And shania's music is about a bibble gum and elementary as britney spears. Shania is one big joke to us country fans. Quantity does not = quality. Just cause she sells a whole latta cd's does not mean her music is good and it shore as hell dont mean her music is country. Theres a sucker born ever minute. She is a nashville POP singer. And Of course shania has sold more than any other country singer, she is marketed world wide. And if her music is country then why is it advertised and marketed as pop in other countries????????? And the scenstories thing is just another way for shania to suck the money out of the pockets her gullabe obsessed fans. And what would reba know?? Reba aint sang a country song it 17 years. Reaba is a big ol' sell out just like shania. All shania has is her look. she cant sing to save her life.Shania is a has been in the country world. Bye bye shania. All you shania fans should go listen to Hank Sr. Now THATS country. How many of shania's fans listen to hank. Probably NONE.

Shania- The "Jesus" of Country Music
This book does a good job of covering the life of Shania in a summary manner due to its Reader's Digest nature (mini-book or long article).
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada    5. Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk    6. Country music    7. Country musicians    8. Entertainment & Performing Arts - General    9. Twain, Shania    10. Women    11. Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians    12. Biography: film, television & music    13. Country & western   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Canada - History - 1760-1899    3. Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)    4. Europe - Great Britain - General    5. Historical - British    6. History    7. History: World    8. Sociology Of Women    9. Women    10. Women's Studies - General    11. British Columbia    12. Social history    13. Women's studies   

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Well of Hope
Is the American Dream an empty hole(or whole)? Clive Chisholm takes a hard look at that in his trek across the American West, following the trail the Mormons blazed in 1847.Those Mormons were seeking their dream, their promised land. Chisholm, looking deeply at their experience through their journals, overlaps them with his modern day rediscovery of what is left of their trail.In the process, he digs deeply at the Mormon faith, at himself and at all of us, trying to find what gives us the courage and the passion to get up each morning and try it all again.The stories of the young brides who, far from home, died the horrible death of cholera, and his battles with dysentery and toothache; how they drug all their worldly belongings in handcarts, and he a dilapidated hand-golfcart, soon discarded in a highway culvert. Their is no shortage of dispair and heartache for either story, yet there is hope. Chisholm fills the pages with his gift of humor, and the quirky characters that he collects like mile markers on his road.He masterfully weaves both stories together.In the end, he questions what it all meant.Americans, he determines, believe everything works out simply because they are Americans.It's not the same experience for the rest of the world but we, as americans, are comprised of the peoples of all the world.We inherit a legacy of ancestral dreams.The dream is a lie, but it's the dreaming that counts.That's what fills our "common well of human hope." Buy it.

One Man's Saga
I was enthralled by Clive Scott Chisholm's brilliant meld of personal experience, social criticism, and history. On his 1100 mile trek from Omaha to Salt Lake City, he encounters a rich variety of experiences involving the weather,the landscape, historical markers, towns, and human personalities which he describes in vivid detail. Independence Rock in Wyoming, for instance, evokes a discussion of the natural forces which created it and its role as "a geological semaphore of good-bye" for travelers venturing into the unknown West. Following the wrong god home
Clive Scott Chisholm recounts his walking retracement of the Morman trail across Nebraska and Wyoming to Brigham Young's"Zion",Utah.This book is about people,places,perceptions,and the nebulous envisagement of the American Dream.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canadians    3. Description and travel    4. Essays & Travelogues    5. Fiction    6. Frontier and pioneer life    7. History    8. History, Local    9. Literary    10. Literature: Classics    11. Mormon Pioneer National Histor    12. Mormon pioneers    13. Travel - General    14. United States - State & Local - West    15. United States - West - General    16. West (U.S.)    17. Chisholm, Clive Scott    18. Journeys    19. Travel writing    20. Western & Pacific Coast states   

Subjects:  1. Travel    2. Biography: general    3. Canada    4. Navigation    5. North Pacific    6. Travel writing    7. Western & Pacific Coast states   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - General    5. Historical - General    6. Western Europe - General    7. American history    8. Canada    9. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    10. Western Continental Europe   

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Canadian Paddler Lives on in Finch Biography
In R. M. Patterson: A Life of Great Adventure, historian David Finch brings the famous river explorer back to life. Patterson died at 86 almost twenty years ago, but The Dangerous River, based on his explorations on the South Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories, remains in print and his most popular work, as fresh today as its setting in the late 1920s. The Finch biography revisits the South Nahanni as well as Patterson's roots in England and his many years in the Canadian Rockies. It traces the events of "a life of great adventure," a theme suggested by Patterson's employer at the Bank of England as he wished Patterson well on his 1924 move to Canada to settle in the Peace River country of northwestern Alberta. Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - Western Provinces    5. General    6. Historical - General    7. Literary    8. Patterson, R. M   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans    5. Historical - General   

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Extremely helpful genealogical tool.
Thanks to these volumes I was able obtain a great of information on my French-Canadian ancestors corroborating material I had found before and filling some missing blanks.

Our French Canadian Ancestors -- like good friends
"Our French-Canadian Ancestors" by Thomas J. Laforest is an excellent resource on the early French Canadian history.It includes genealogical information of the early settlers and a little about thelifestyle of about 20 different families.It's got a great historicalreference about the King's Daughters.I was fortunate enough to find manyconnecting links to a family tree of my ancestors.Excellent resource tobegin a collection of French Canadian information.

Personal profiles of French Canadian pioneers.
This series offers a very readable translation of the original FrenchCanadian-language series, adding drawings, historical briefs and appendicesthat are especially of interest to American-born descendents of Quebec'spioneer families. For history buffs, this series also offers insights intothe motivations of New France's immigrants and portrays highlights of dailylife, social activities and civil actions among the colonists. Some of theprofiles were prepared by family historians, who often wrote longer workson the same subject. My ancestor, Jean Le Brodeur, is featured in Chapter13 by Clement Brodeur of Quebec. The information is valuable on its ownmerits and as a starting point for further research. Most French Canadiandescendents are related to many of the persons portrayed in this series,due to the close-knit society and intermarriages among relatively fewfamilies. So several volumes may be of interest. This series extendsgeneral and specific knowledge of the Quebecois pioneers. - Gary Brodeu ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada - General    3. France    4. French-Canadians    5. Genealogy    6. History - General History    7. Quebec (Province)    8. Quâebec (Province)   

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An Insightful Study of Quebec History and Pierre E. Trudeau During the Mid 1930s and Early 1940s
As a law student in 1965 of Pierre E. Trudeau, Canada's former Prime Minister, I had more than a passing interest in reading Max and Monique Nemni's recent tome Young Trudeau Son of Quebec, Father of Canada 1919-1944: Volume One.
Revealing insight into the mind of a radical

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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Political    6. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Biography    3. Canada - General    4. General    5. Historic buildings    6. History    7. History: World    8. Monuments historiques    9. Nouvelle-âEcosse    10. Nova Scotia    11. Pioneers   

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Great book!
Riding Into War is a memoir written in 1964 after the author had travelled to France to revisit its old battlefields.It was written with the intention of leaving a record for future members of his family, but fortunately, they have since felt it important enough to make this memoir available to a wider audience.
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Subjects:  1. 1897-1976    2. Biography    3. Canada    4. Canada - General    5. General    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. Horsemen and horsewomen    10. Johnston, James Robert,    11. Military - Canada    12. Modern - 20th Century    13. Personal narratives, Canadian    14. Transportation    15. Western Front    16. World War, 1914-1918    17. History / Canada   

Subjects:  1. Boundaries    2. Canada    3. Canada - General    4. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    5. History    6. History - U.S.    7. History: American    8. International Relations - General    9. Northern boundary of the Unite    10. Relations    11. United States    12. United States - General    13. United States - State & Local - General    14. American history    15. North America    16. Social & cultural anthropology    17. Western & Pacific Coast states