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- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo Morrison are born in an Ontario farming community of only a few families, so isolated that “the road led only south.” There is little work, marriage choices are few, and the winter cold seeps...
- Location(s): Halifax NS
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): World War I
The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more...
- Location(s): Ottawa
- Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): early 2000s
When Jeff agreed to be the sperm donor to his best friend Beth, he never expected a tragedy to leave his newborn and three year old motherless. That’s exactly what’s happened, though, and it’s totally thrown his life into...
- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Sergeant Holly Rudd arrives in the coastal community of Bamfield after local divers discover a body with a knife jutting from its chest in the waters of Barkley Sound. As she investigates the crime, Holly soon realizes the sleepy...
- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Since her rocky childhood and its abrupt, brutal ending, schoolteacher Anna Silver hasn’t given her trust easily. But when her estranged father gets in over his head—again—and winds up dead, his last message to Anna is as clear as...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In the intense August heat, three local kids, Matthew, Andy and Josh, spend their time exploring the woods and secret places of Deloume Road and ignoring the ghostly boy Miles Ford, who’s almost invisible anyway. Soon though, a chance...
Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing
- Location(s): Europe, Australia, Canada, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1800s, Victorian, 1842
From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also...
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
- Location(s): Alaska, Canada
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Current, 2000
The author first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready for a new challenge, she joined a Glacier National Park trails crew as a seasonal...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Edwardian Era
Emily never imagined Aunt Elizabeth would allow her to go to high school in Shrewsbury, and she’s thrilled, especially as her close friends Ilse, Teddy and Perry will be there. But there are certain conditions: for the whole three...
Expedition to Mystery Mountain: Adventures of a Bushwhacking, Knickerbocker-wearing Woman
- Location(s): British Columbia
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 1926, 2018
A come-along adventure of a city-dwelling climber who discovers what it is like to be an intrepid explorer and a woman. She and her team are on a mission to climb the highest mountain entirely within B.C. in the...
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