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Category: Canada

Maximum Canada by Doug Saunders

Posted on February 7, 2023February 7, 2023
Topics: Canada, History

Rating: 8.2/10. Maximum Canada: Toward a Country of 100 Million by Doug Saunders Book about the history of immigration in Canada. Today, Canada is recognized as one of the most multicultural countries in the world, but Canada has only been multicultural fairly recently, since the 1960s. In the 19th century, Canada was set up as…

Yut Di – One Earth by EHK Ho

Posted on March 9, 2022April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, Novels / Fiction

Rating: 7.4/10. Novel about the first Chinese immigrants to Canada, escaping war and famine in China in search of a better life. The year is 1880 and the story begins with a wealthy businessman (Cheung) and his son (Wing) on a ship to British Columbia. Their plan is to make a business selling supplies to…

Historical Atlas of Vancouver by Derek Hayes

Posted on January 30, 2022April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.8/10. Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes Atlas containing about 350 maps of Vancouver and the surrounding regions from the first European settlements until about 2000. Vancouver is a relatively young city: it was still covered in dense forest as late as 1885 but rapidly grew into a…

Shadows on the Rock by Willie Cather

Posted on November 7, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Novels / Fiction

Rating: 8.2/10. Historical novel set in Quebec City in the year 1697, when the settlement was just a small town on the frontier. The story follows Cecile, a 12-year-old girl whose father is the apothecary (similar to a doctor). Not much plot happens, rather, the novel is based on characters: we get to hear stories…

A Short History of Quebec by John Dickinson and Brian Young

Posted on October 5, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.3/10. Summary History of Quebec, from the first European contact in the 16th century until the present day. Before European contact, the natives were a mixture of farmers and hunter-gatherers who traded with each other. The Europeans first came to the region for cod, then the fur trade started in the 1630s. Due to…

Wild Fierce Life by Joanna Streetly

Posted on January 1, 2021April 10, 2022
Topics: Canada, Novels / Fiction

Rating: 6.4/10. Collection of about 15 short stories by a woman who lived in Tofino and worked as a tour guide. The stories display life in the wilderness of Vancouver Island, the beauty as well as the dangers, such as a boat losing power during a storm, getting lost in the dark, encounters with wolves….

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

Posted on October 2, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Canada, Natural Sciences, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.0/10. The Great Lakes system contains about 20% of the world’s surface freshwater, but is “ecologically naive”: for thousands of years, its ecosystem has been isolated from the outside world as foreign fish can’t make it through the rapids and up Niagara Falls. This all changed in the 19th century as we opened several…

Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Posted on January 15, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.0/10. Tells the story of Franklin’s Lost Expedition both as it happened, as well as an archeological point of view where we piece together what happened. The two ships set off in 1845 to explore the northwest passage, spends the first winter on Beechey Island (near Devon Island), but then gets stuck for two…

Chop Suey Nation by Ann Hui

Posted on September 8, 2019April 10, 2022
Topics: Canada, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.9/10. A journalist makes her way across Canada from Vancouver to Fogo Island in Newfoundland, surveying Chinese restaurants in small towns across the country. In parallel, she tells her personal story of how her family originated from Toisan and ended up in Vancouver running Chinese restaurants, and the family narrative ends up being quite…

A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts

Posted on February 3, 2019April 9, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.1/10. Canada has a long history of exploration: to European settlers, much of it was uncharted wilderness. This book presents a bunch of expeditions in history that uncovered Canada’s geography, with dramatic storytelling of adventure and danger. In some way, it resembles “The Hobbit”, where a band of brave adventurers venture into the unknown,…

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