Biblioasis, 2019. — 320 p. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c. 1636-1710) is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as "an eager hustler with no known scruples". Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a...
Museum Restoration Service, Historical Arms Series No. 18, 1984. — 40 pgs. This is the work of a curator rather than an historian, so military material culture and organization is favored over tactical or biographical details. This booklet covers the uniforms, weapons, garrisons, artillery, militia, and everyday life of the French colonial soldier before and during the 18th...
University of New Mexico Press, 1983. — 238 p. This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its...
Translated from "L'Histoire du Canada" of F. X. Garneau, Esq., and accompanied with illustrative notes by Andrew Bell. In two volumes. Vol.1. Second edition – revised. Published by John Lovell. Montreal, 1862. Garneau’s Histoire du Canada (1845–48), predominantly a political and military account of early Quebec, includes tales of pioneering men and women and descriptions of the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 432 p. Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as a rebel. Reconstructing his experiences in the Northwest, Quebec, and the...
Laval, Province of Quebec: Dev-Sco Publications, 1966. - 98 pgs. Title varies: on the spine The Fighting Frasers , on the cover 78th Fighting Frasers , on the frontispiece The Old 78th Regiment , and on the title page 78th Fighting Frasers in Canada. A Short History of the Old 78th Regiment or Fraser's Highlanders 1757-1763 . This book is connected with an effort to recreate a...
Doubleday, 2019. — 384 p. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it...
Goose Lane Editions, 2015. — 288 p. Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed? Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. - the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia - was shot to death by his...
University of Toronto Press, 2004. — 368 p. The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident...
Revised edition — University of Regina Press, 2014. — 525 p. This book is an epic account of the 1870s, a decade that saw unprecedented changes come to the Great Plains of North America: famine, fire and pestilence, the disappearance of the buffalo, the last stand of the Sioux and the Metis, the Boundary Survey and the "March West" of the North-West Mounted Police, men like...
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