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Valour Reconsidered
The Victoria Cross is the most famous decoration for bravery in the world, its prestige rivalled only by the Medal of Honor. Other awards recognise courage in dangerous (but not combat) circumstances, among them the George Cross and Canada's Cross of Valour. But how is bravery measured? Is valour "in the presence of an enemy" more deserving than valour away from combat? Do all brave persons receive the honours they deserve? Where does "duty" end and "above the call of duty" begin? Has courage sometimes been confused with recklessness? This book examines recommendations for VCs and similar awards, asking why some were approved and some not. It explores factors such as service politics, evolvi...
Typhoon and Tempest
From 1942 onward, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force were equipped first with Typhoons, then with the awesome Tempest, one of the most advanced fighters of the day. Includes detailed descriptions of squadron life.
Lord Linlithgow
Murray Hafrord was a young man of great promise in politics and trusted by the supreme head of the party, and so owed fealty to Lord Linlithgow. In the possession of the Radicals there were certain incriminating letters, and these were held by one Henry Pole. Pole had no right to keep these letters, which had been placed in his hands. Often asked to give them up, Pole had always refused. Pole knew that if the letters of Eustace Loder were ever made public the ruin of the Radical Party, of which he was the chief ornament, would follow. It was then that Murray Harford was, ordered to obtain these letters. ""Wonderfully clever . . . My Morley Roberts, who is becoming a most voluminous author, has in his ""Lord Linlithgow"" drawn his hero from Lord Rosebery, and has surrounded him with men, and probably with women -- though as to that I cannot say -- who are well known in London."" -- The New York Times
Remembering the Don
A tribute to the days when there were Mississauga Indians camped along a Don River teeming with salmon, red-coated militia regiments, and courageous pioneers.
The Royal Canadian Air Force at War 1939-1945
This grand Canadian aviation book gives detailed coverage to the Royal Canadian Air Force, both at home and overseas, in World War II. Besides its hefty text, the book counts more than 1500 photographs. The focus is on the people who comprised the RCAF at the time, the aircraft they flew and maintained, their many tasks, and the host of places they served during six hectic years of fighting.
Erin's Sons
Volume III of Erin's Sons extends the period of coverage to 1858 and lists approximately 7,000 additional Irish-born residents of Atlantic Canada. Like the other volumes in the series, it is based on a wide variety of genealogical sources, including church records, cemetery inscriptions, marriage and burial records, newspapers, census records, and ships' passenger lists.
A Peep at the Blacks'
This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a ‘showplace’ of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural performances that involved boomerang throwing and traditional ways of lighting fires and by manufacturing and selling traditional artifacts. Whenever government policy impacted adversely on the Aboriginal community, the residents of Coranderrk took advantage of the opportunities offered to them by tourism to advance their political and cultural interests. This was particularly evident in the 1910s and 1920s when government policy moved to close the station.
