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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada / by Bown, Stephen R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."--
Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads; Railroads;

The Inspector Lynley mysteries. [videorecording] / by Parker, Nathaniel,1962-actor.; Small, Sharon,1967-actor.; television adaptation of (work):George, Elizabeth,1949-Inspector Lynley novel.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company,publisher.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.;
Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small.Uppercrust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, and his working class partner Sergeant Barbara Havers overcome their difference and evolve into a potent team to unravel the most heinous crimes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Lynley, Thomas; Havers, Barbara (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;
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The Inspector Lynley mysteries. [videorecording] / by Parker, Nathaniel,1962-actor.; Small, Sharon,1967-actor.; television adaptation of (work):George, Elizabeth,1949-Inspector Lynley novel.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company,publisher.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.;
Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small.Uppercrust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, and his working class partner Sergeant Barbara Havers overcome their difference and evolve into a potent team to unravel the most heinous crimes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Lynley, Thomas; Havers, Barbara (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;
For private home use only.

Ripper Street. [videorecording] / by Flynn, Jerome,1963-; Macfadyen, Matthew,1974-; McCarthy, Colm,1973-; Rothenberg, Adam.; Shankland, Tom.; Smallwood, Stephen.; Warlow, Richard.; Wilson, Andy,1958-; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; Lookout Point (Firm); Tiger Aspect Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Adam Rothenberg, Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn.The job of preventing Whitechapel from descending into hell has never been harder for Inspector Reid and his loyal deputies. As the century enters its final decade, society teeters on the brink of moral collapse and nowhere are the bloated British Empire's problems felt more keenly than in its dark heart: the East End of London. The memory of Jack the ripper may have faded but the Whitechapel streets he walked are more dangerous than ever.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Jack, the Ripper; Detective and mystery television programs.; Police; Serial murderers; Serial murders; Television cop shows.; Thrillers (Television programs);
© c2014., BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,

The country and the game : 30,000 miles of hockey stories / by Shuker, Ronnie,author.;
"A joyful, beautifully written tribute to Canada's most salient features-hockey and geography. In the waning days of the pandemic, sportswriter Ronnie Shuker stuffed his skates, sticks, and backpack into his faithful automobile, Gumpy, named for legendary goaltender Gump Worsley, and set off on a 30,000-mile, coast-to-coast-to-coast investigation of the many ways hockey touches the lives of Canadians. From St. John's, home of hockey's most colorful father-son combo, to a frigid barn in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, and the world's largest hockey stick in Duncan, British Columbia, Shuker goes in search of people and places where Canada and hockey intersect on the road. Along the way, he hits famous sites of hockey lore, from the cradle of the game in Windsor, Nova Scotia, to Brantford, Ontario, where streets, highways, schools, and much else bear the name Gretzky, to Vancouver, site of the infamous 1994 and 2011 Canuck riots. But he also finds the game in unlikely places-crash sites, greenhouses, houseboats, memorials, backyard halls of fame, even a Hutterite colony-where a seemingly endless and always engaging cast of characters, including pros, semi-pros, beer-league veterans, family and fans, share unforgettable stories of how pucks have dented their lives."--
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Hockey;

1917 [videorecording] / by Chapman, Dean-Charles,1997-actor.; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; MacKay, George,1992-actor.; Madden, Richard,1986-actor.; Mays, Daniel,actor.; Scott, Andrew,1976 October 21-actor.; Strong, Mark,1963-actor.; Mendes, Sam,film director,film producer.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, Mark Strong, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth, George Mackay, Daniel Mays.At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos ; Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; War films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Great Britain. Army. Devonshire Regiment. Battalion, 2nd; Brothers; Messengers; Trench warfare; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918;
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Speak no evil [videorecording] / by Watkins, James,1978-screenwriter,film director.; Davis, Mackenzie,actor.; Franciosi, Aisling,1993-actor.; Hough, Dan(Actor),actor.; Lefler, Alix West,actor.; Malhees, Motaz,actor.; McAvoy, James,1979-actor.; McNairy, Scoot,actor.; Universal Studios, Inc.,film distributor.;
James Mcavoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough, Scoot Mcnairy, Motaz Malhees.After befriending a British couple with a mute son, Americans Ben and Louise accept an unusual invitation to bring their daughter for a weekend at an idyllic country estate. Yet when they discover their hosts are hiding sinister motives, Ben and Louise fear their family may be pawns in a disturbing plot.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Americans; Family vacations; Mute persons; Man-woman relationships; Serial murderers; Dysfunctional families;
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The Tiger and the Cosmonaut [electronic resource] : by Boudel Tan, Eddy.aut; CloudLibrary;
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town. Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn’t discuss: the loss of his twin brother, Sam. Over twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a crisis brings Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and clutching a pair of scissors, seemingly trapped in the memory of that tragic night. In order to move forward, the Han family must finally confront the past and untangle the mystery of what really happened to Sam. Combining the atmosphere and intrigue of a cracking good suspense novel with the depth of a rich character study, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut tells the story of a family whose members have long made themselves small and quiet and obedient—and what happens when the cycle is finally broken.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Gay; Asian American; Family Life;
© 2025., Penguin Canada,

The Tiger and the Cosmonaut [electronic resource] : by Tan, Eddy Boudel.aut; Vo, Danny.nrt; CloudLibrary;
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town. Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn’t discuss: the loss of his twin brother, Sam. Over twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a crisis brings Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and clutching a pair of scissors, seemingly trapped in the memory of that tragic night. In order to move forward, the Han family must finally confront the past and untangle the mystery of what really happened to Sam. Combining the atmosphere and intrigue of a cracking good suspense novel with the depth of a rich character study, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut tells the story of a family whose members have long made themselves small and quiet and obedient—and what happens when the cycle is finally broken.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Gay; Asian American; Family Life;
© 2025., Penguin Random House,

Erebus : the story of a ship / by Palin, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic, Erebus and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS Erebus had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration ship. Palin looks at the Erebus story through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of Erebus herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the story has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."--
Subjects: Erebus (Ship); Scientific expeditions;

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