Catalog Search Results
1) The 1900s
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Educational Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
5) The 1910s
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Educational Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Language
English
Description
"Echo's story picks up again when she travels back in time to 1885. For Echo, the plight of her family is apparent. Burnt out of their home in Ste. Madeleine when their land is cleared for pasture, they make their way to Rooster Town, squatting on the southwest edges of Winnipeg. In this final instalment of Echo's story, she is reminded of the strength and resilience of her people, forged through the loss and pain of the past, as she faces a triumphant...
Author
Series
Barr Colony adventures volume 2
Publisher
Coteau Books
Language
English
Description
Despite the floods and fires that continue to plague the Barr Colony, Dorothy and the rest of the Bolton clan follow her father's dream of creating a farm on the prairies of Saskatchewan.
15) Anne arrives
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who was sent to live on a Prince Edward Island farm by mistake, wants to make it her home and must convince the elderly brother and sister that live there to keep her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who lives on a Prince Edward Island farm is looking forward to a picnic with her new friend Diana, but she needs to keep her temper in check and make sure she doesn't get in trouble before the day of the picnic arrives.
Publisher
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language
English
Description
Building on the themes and human dramas presented in earlier episodes, this DVD contains additional CBC produced contemporary documentary footage that provides further background and perspective to several of the historical chronicled. Covered: 1998 war veterans' rendezvous, the Funeral for Canada's Unknown Soldiers, the history of science in Canada, the Americanization of Canada, and the history of Pier 21.
Publisher
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language
English
Description
The first episode covers 1873 to 1896. The 1870s and 1880s are a time of trial for the young Dominion of Canada. The country's first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, faces economic depression in the factories of the east and a new revolt in the west, led by his old nemesis, Louis Riel. The suppression of the Northwest Rebellion and Macdonald's single-minded insistence that the French-speaking Catholic Riel must hang for treason threatens to tear...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
Description
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In...
Author
Series
Carleton library volume 240
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Language
English
Description
"What if Canadian history was actually about the money? In 1867, Canadians wrote themselves a new constitution because they needed a new tax deal. Confederation was not just about the taxes, but it was never not about the taxes, and the founding principles of 'Peace, Order, and Good Government' should be reconsidered accordingly. Modern Canada, like Britain, France, and the United States, was born of a tax revolt. But in Canada, George Brown's tax...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request