• On Her Majesty's Service: Royal Honours and Recognition in Canada - (Book - Amazon.ca) : Royal recognition in Canada is accorded through a variety of honours and awards, including the Royal Victorian Order, Medal, and Chain; Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Commendations; and Vice-Regal and Commissioners' Recognition Badges. On Her Majesty's Service examines the history and development of these marks of honour from the Crown in detail and also provides complete lists of Canadian recipients and a section on heraldry.
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• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century - (Book - Amazon.com) : By Francis Parkman.
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• The Saint Lawrence: Its Basin and Border-Lands. The Story of their Discovery, Exploration and Occupation - (Book - Amazon.com) : By Samuel Edward Dawson (1905) reprint, 453 pp., illus., maps, append., new subject+fullname index. A must for those interested in history and geography. Dawson sets out to relate the chief facts pertaining to the discovery and exploration of the northeastern part of the continent of North America. Read more... -

• United Empire Loyalists - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This monumental work of 1,436 pages contains records of the claims for losses of over twelve hundred persons who found it necessary to flee to Canada during and immediately after the Revolutionary War. -

• Canada Stickers -

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• 1871 Canadian Census (partial) - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : This census database contains more than 400,000 records of personal information such as name, age, country or province of birth, occupation, ethnic origin and religious denomination. Requires payment. -

• A Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry 1909-1914: From the Canadian Jewish Times - (Book - Amazon.ca) : Publisher: Avotaynu. May also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) -

• Canadian Airman, British Flying Service of World War I, From 1914 to 1919 - (Database Online - MyTrees.com) : This compilation comes from volume I of the Royal Canadian Air Force official history. It covers the period of 1914 - 1919.
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• Directory of Photographers in the United States 1888 & 1889 and Canada 1889 - (Book - Amazon.com) : This Directory was taken from the First and Second Annual Editions of the Lithographers’ and Photographers’ Directory: A Directory for Lithographers, Photographers and for all allied Arts and Trades in the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, published in 1888 and 1889. In the original format entries were arranged by country, state and city. Ms. Gagel has included a copy of this format in this publication. To make it easier to locate the name of a photographer in either the United States or Canada, she has also compiled an alphabetical listing by the surname and first name of the photographer.
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• Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Erin’s Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada. -

• Field of Glory : The Battle of Crysler's Farm, 1813 -

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• Handbook of Indians of Canada - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Published as an appendix to the Tenth Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, Sessional Paper No. 21a. 632 pages, 1912. Search or browse. Subscription required. -

• Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada - (Book - Amazon.ca) : In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, "Hard Passage" speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
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• Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest: Maps of Exploration and Discovery -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon. A one-of-a-kind collection of maps created by the navigators, explorers, and cartographers who first charted the Northwest. Representing four centuries of discovery and exploration, this unique reference book showcases more than 320 original maps, many never before published. Here are the maps of explorers such as Cook, Vancouver, Bodega y Quadra, Mackenzie, Thompson, and Lewis and Clark. Here too are maps created during boundary disputes, land purchases, the plotting of town sites, and surveys for railroads. Combined with historical background, these maps take the reader on an amazing visual journey through the discovery and development of the Northwest. Also available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca (Canada)

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• History of the Presbyterian Church in the Dominion of Canada - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : From the earliest times to 1834. This volume is chiefly devoted to the earlier portion of the history of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and it contains brief biographical sketches of nearly all the Presbyterian ministers who labored in the Dominion previous to 1835. Subscription required. -

• In Search of Your Canadian Roots - (Book - Amazon.com) : Whether your family has been in Canada for centuries or only several generations, this superb book will show you how to trace your Canadian roots and have fun doing it.
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• Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This volume contains an Orderly Book, or military diary, relating to three battalions of Loyalists raised for the defense of Long Island and commanded by General Oliver De Lancey. It is followed by a valuable list of 1,500 New York Loyalists (the adherents to the British Crown in the city of New York), compiled from contemporary manuscripts and newspapers covering the period 1776-1784 and alphabetically arranged. It should be noted that all three battalions disbanded in Nova Scotia. -

• Pioneers of France in the New World - (Book - Amazon.com) : In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis Parkman tells why.
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