Under Canadian Skies
Author: Joseph P. Choquet
Publisher: Providence, R.I. : Oxford Press
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
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Canadian Women in the Sky
Author: Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2015-11-14
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1459731891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth’s atmosphere into space. The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilots, and, finally, as astronauts. Anecdotes, sometimes humourous and always amazing, trace these women’s challenges and successes, their slow march over 100 years from scandal to acceptance, whether in Second World War skies, in hostile northern bush country, and even beyond Earth’s atmosphere. From the time the first woman climbed on board a flying machine as a passenger to the moment a Canadian woman astronaut visited the International Space Station, this is an account of how the sky-blue glass ceiling eventually cracked, allowing passionate and determined “air-crazy” women the opportunity to fly.
I Am Canada: Fire in the Sky
Author: David Ward
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1443104000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young fighter pilot's action-packed account of some of the fiercest battles of WWI -- fought, for the first time, thousands of feet above the ground. Paul Townend has wanted to be a pilot ever since he saw his first plane. So as soon as he turns nineteen, he leaves his farm near Winnipeg to join the Royal Naval Air Service. Within months of enlisting, he is engaging in dogfights over France and the English Channel, including a skirmish with the infamous Red Baron. When Paul returns home to Canada, he's shaken by his experiences but proud of what he and the other pilots have achieved. Packed with nail-biting, high-flying action and fascinating insights into the early days of aerial warfare, Fire in the Sky is sure to be the new favourite of young history buffs and adventure-lovers alike.
Under Big-Hearted Skies
Author: Tom Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-08
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781777221102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder An Afghan Sky
Author: Mellissa Fung
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1443408263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.
Under This Unbroken Sky
Author: Shandi Mitchell
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-09-08
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0061960020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. Award-winning writer Shandi Mitchell based this evocative and compelling narrative of struggle and survival on the Canadian prairie on her own family history.
Canada and the United States
Author: John Herd Thompson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780820324036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the American Revolution to NAFTA to the Helms-Burton Act and beyond, this work offers an assessment of relations between the USA and Canada. It seeks to distil a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic and political developments of mutual importance during the past two centuries.
Under the Moonlit Sky
Author: Nav K. Gill
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1459716930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha. A secret that looms over her family has reinforced her proud resistance to her family’s Indian identity. However, one day changes everything, and Eshas well-thought-out rebellion is put to the test. In the blink of an eye, she is forced to step up and fulfill her father’s last wish, taking her thousands of miles away to a place she never dreamed of visiting: India. Forced to follow traditions she has denied her whole life and fighting the temptations of an unlikely love interest, Esha must now confront her new reality. As she comes to understand her heritage, she also becomes a victim of the highly unstable political climate in 1984 Delhi. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has just been assassinated, political tensions rise, and now only one chant can be heard: Blood for blood. Esha must fight to survive the three days of brutal chaos that erupts throughout Delhi in the aftermath of the prime minister’s assassination.
Under a Living Sky
Author: Joseph Simons
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1459806115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary is certain that her parents are giving her new shoes for Christmas, but the Depression has hit her Saskatchewan farming family hard. Mary tries to hide her disappointment when she receives a crude homemade doll instead. She ends up liking the doll much more than she expects, but the doll fuels the rivalry between Mary and her older sister, Judith. Then, when the doll disappears a few weeks later during a snowstorm, Mary and Judith's relationship changes once again.
