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For the Love of History
Featuring some of Canada's best known and most admired historians, this collection will appeal
to Pierre Berton fans and history lovers everywhere.
For the Love of History features the contributions of outstanding writers who
have won recognition for the creative and colourful ways in which they have
popularized Canadian history. Including a ...
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Prisoners
of the North
Canada's
master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle
the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial
characters.
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to
bring history to life. Prisoners of the North
tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring
and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’s
frozen wilderness are no...
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The
Joy of Writing
Drawing
on his fifty years as an award-winning journalist
and author of some of the finest books on Canadian
history, Pierre Berton has written a witty and practical
guide for writers. With almost every book a bestseller,
clearly this writer knows what it takes to succeed
in the publishing world. From... click
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Cats
I Have Known and Loved
Who
would have guessed that one of the great historian’s
passions in life is cats? Over the course of his eighty-two
years, and from his birthplace in Dawson City, Yukon,
to his home in Kleinburg, Ontario, Berton has known
and loved many cats. In this charming collection of
stories, he has... click
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Marching
as to War
“I
have called this period Canada’s Turbulent Years –
turbulent not only because of the battles we fought
on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders,
the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills
of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were
Canada’s formative years, when she resembled...
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My
Country
Berton
brings the past alive with true stories of mystery
and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy
of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to
the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult
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Niagara
Full
of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils,
scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary
resonance: how a great natural wonder created both
the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the
worst pollution on the continent. click
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The
Promised Land
After
the pioneers described in The National Dream,
The Last Spike and Klondike came the
settlers — a million people who filled a thousand
miles of prairie in a single generation. click
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The
Secret World of Og
The
Canadian classic, written by Pierre Berton and illustrated
by his daughter, Patsy, has sold more than 200,000
copies in four editions. A favourite of young readers
and their parents alike, The Secret World of Og
is available once again, for a new generation of children.
In this fantasy adventure, four children... click
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The
Arctic Grail
Scores
of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold,
relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two
great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking
the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international
race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling
book brings to life the great explorers: the... click
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The
Great Depression
Over
1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five
was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled
like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the
streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference,
and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the
Great Depression a different nation.
The most searing decade in... click
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Klondike
With
the building of the railroad and the settlement of
the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike
stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of
western development, and here are its dramatic tales
of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy
Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater... click
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Vimy
One
chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their
faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in
France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as
Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp
what had eluded both British and French armies in
over two... click
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Flames
Across the Border
The
Canada – U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812
continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire,
Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo
lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington,
far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of
1812 had become... click
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The
Invasion of Canada
To
America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed
to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson
confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million
fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet,
when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans
left on Canadian soil... click
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The
Last Spike
In
the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged
into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific
Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible
story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the
continent in just five years — exactly half the time
stipulated in the... click
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The
National Dream
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... click
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Welcome
To The 21st Century
The
monarchy, the movies, and everything in between is
lampooned in this humorous retrospective of twentieth-century
follies, foibles and fads from Canada's preeminent
popular historian. Berton even ventures a look into
the future, when in 2021, Chicago and New York launch
the first 22-lane highways: they are designed for
a speed... click
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Worth
Repeating
This
glorious miscellany of many of Pierre Berton's most
sparkling pieces brings back lost treasures from his
years as a journalist covering Canada and the world.
Worth Repeating is a treat to read, but it's also
a valuable reminder of Berton's fifty years of extraordinary
contributions to reporting and social commentary.
Writing... click
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1967
Few
Canadians over the age of forty can forget the feeling
of joy and celebration that washed over the country
during Canada's centennial year. We were, Pierre Berton
reminds us, a nation in love with itself, basking
in the warm glow of international applause brought
on by the unexpected success of... click
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My
Times
For
fifty years Canadians have had a standing date with
Pierre Berton--in Maclean's and The Toronto
Star, on the TV screen in Front Page Challenge
and The Pierre Berton Show, and in each of
his successive bestsellers. In his passion for truth
and justice, he has taken on issues few others...
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