Canada: Literature and History

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), our Canadian CD contains the full text of 347 books about Canada and/or by Canadians. For context, it also includes the CIA World Factbook (an enormous collection of interlinked html files).

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Table of Contents

Context of the contemporary world

The 2008 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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History and Other Non-Fiction

• An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay by W.D. Lighthall, 1889
• Adele Dubois: a Story of the Lovely Miramachi Valley in New Bruswick, 1865
• All Afloat, A Chronicle of Craft and Waterays by William Wood
• Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Wood, 1911
• Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Wood
• Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Wood, 1912
• The Arctic Prairies, a Canoe Journey by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Bowdoin Boys in Labrador by Jonathan Cilley
• Bref Recit et Succinte Narration de la Navigatrion Faite en 1535 et 1536 par le Capitain Jacques Cartier
• The British Association Visit to Montreal 1884, Letters by Clara Kayleigh
• The British North America Act, 1867 (short)
• The Campaign of 1760 in Canada by Chevalier Johnstone
• Canada and the Canadians by Sir Richard Henry bonnycastle
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Canada and the States, Recollections 1851-1886 by Edward William Watkins
• Canada for Gentlemen, being letters from James Seton Cockburn
• Canada, the Empire of the North by Agnes Laut
• Canada Under British Rule 1760-1900 by John Bourinot, 1900
• The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes Laut
• The Canadian Dominion by Oscar Skelton
• The Canadian Girl at Work by Marjory MacMurchy
• A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs, the Story of a Hundred Years 1761-1861
• Canadian Notabilities, volume 1, by John Charles Dent
• Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
• Champlain by N.E. Dionne
• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company
• Chronicles of Canada, Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton, (the first 9 of 32 volumes; we will add the others as they become available)
• Volume 1, the Dawn of Canadian History: a Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada  by Stephen Leacock
• Volume 2, the Mariner of St. Malo, a Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock
• Volume 3, the Founder of New France by Charles Colby
• Volume 4, the Jesuit Missions: a Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
• Volume 5, the Seigneurs of Old Canada: a Chronicle of New-World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
• Volume 6, the Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 by Thomas Chapais
• Volume 7, the Fighting Governor: a Chronicle of Frontenac by Charles Colby
• Volume 8, the Great Fortress: a Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Wood
• Volume 9, the Acadian Exiles by Arthur Doughty
• Volume 10, the Passing of New France by William Wood
• Volume 11, the Winning of Canda: a Chronicle of Wolfe by William Wood
• Volume 12, the Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by William Wood
• Volume 13, the United Empire Loyalists: a Chroncle of the Great Migration by Stewart Wallace
• Volume 14, the War with the United States: a Chronicle of 1812 by William Wood, 1915
• Volume 15, the War Chief of the Ottawas: a Chronicle of the Pontiac War by Thomas Marquis, 1915
• Chignecto Isthmus: First Settlers by Howard Trueman
• Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman
• The Conquest of New France, a Chronicle of the Colonial Wars by George Wrong
• Crusaders of New France by William Bennet Munro, 1918
• Dangers on the Ice off the Coast of Labrador by Religious Tract Society
• La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois by Marc L'Escabot, 1607
• Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum by mary Huestis Pengily
• The Emma Gees by Herbert W. McBride
• Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation 1859
• The Fight for a Free Sea, a Chronicle of the War of 1812 by Ralph Paine
• First Impressions of the New World by Isabella Strange Trotter (1816-1878)
• Flag and Fleet, How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Wood
• Four Canadian Highwaymen by Edmund Collins
• French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson
• General Instructions for the Guidance of Post Office Inspectors in the Dominion of Canada
• Glossaire Franco-Canadien by Oscar Dunn, 1880
• The Great War as I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
• Half -Century of Conflict by Francis Parkman
• Histoire de la Nouvelle France by Marc L'Escarbot, 1611
• Histoire du Canada by Gabriel Sagard, 1636
• Hochlagans and Mohawks, a Link in Iroquois History, by W.D. Lightall
• The Hunted Outlaw or Donald Morrison the Canadian Rob Roy by Anonymous
• Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by Alfred Carmichael
• Intellectual Development of the Canadian People by John George Bourinot
• Jacques Cartier by H. Emile Chevalier
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
• Journal of a Voyage from Okkal on the Coast of Labrador to Ungava Bay by Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch, 1814
• A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba by Mrs. Cecil Hall
• Laurier: a Study in Canadian Politics by J.W. Dafoe, 1922
• Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland by Joseph Noad, 1859
• Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
• Left on Labrador by C.A. Stephens
• Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson
• A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smith, 1849
• Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, and Viceroy of India, edited by Theodore Walrond
• Life in Canada 50 Years Ago by Canniff Haight
• Lord Elgin by Sir John George Bourinot
• The Loyalists of America by Egerton Ryerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
• The Mocassin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson
• Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
• The Mound Builders by George Bryce
• My Pet Recipes Tried and True by ladies and Freinds of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
• The Mysteries of Montreal, being recollections of a female physiciian by Charlotte Fuhrer
• The Narrative of Gordon Sellar who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
• A New Hochelagan BuryingpGround Discovered at Westmount by W.D. Lighthall
• The New North, being some account of a woman's journey thorugh Canada to the Arctic by Agnes Deans Cameron, 1909
• Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service inthe Hudson's Bay Territory by John M'Lean
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Oeuvres by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), complete in one file
• Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia by Newton Chittenden
• On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George Nasmith
• One Young Man, edited by Ernest Hodder-Williams
• The Ontario Reader -- Fourth Book, 1909
• Ontario Teacher's Manuals -- History, 1915
• Over the Border: Acadia by Eliza Chase
• Owindia, a True Tale of the MacKenzie River Indians, Northwest by Charlotte Bompas
• Le Petit Nord or Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Anne Frenfell an katie Spalding
• Picturesque Quebec by J.M. Lemoine
• Pioneers in Canada by Sir Harry Johnston, 1912
• Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
• Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay D'Espioir, 1908
• Report of Mr. W.E. Cormack's Journey in Search of Red Indians in Newfoundland
• The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
• Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William Gilder
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edawrd Hayes
• Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswich by Mrs. F. Beavan, 1845
• SOS Stand To! by Reginald Grant
• The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace
• The Story of Isaac Brock, Hero, Defender, and Saviour of Upper Canada in 1812 by Walter Nursey
• The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by Joseph Edmond Collins, 1885
• The Story of Newfoundland by Lord Birkenhead, 1920
• Through the Mackinzie Basin by Charles Main
• The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories by Alexander Morris
• The Tribune of Nova Scotia, a Chronicle of Joseph Howe by Willaim Lawson Gant
• A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
• Trois Heros de la Colonie de Montreal by P. Dupuy, 1887
• Troublous Times in Canada, a History fo the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John McDonald
• Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856
• Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear by Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney
• Voyages of Champlain by Samuel de Champlain
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• The War Chief of the Six Nationa, a Chronicle of Jospeh Brant by Louis Aubrey Wood
• What the Church Means to Me by Wilfred T. Grenfell
• Why and How: a Hand Book on the Use of the WCT Unions in Canada by Addie Chisholm
• William Black, the Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
• With the Harmony to Labrador by Rev. B. La Trobe
• A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador: An Account of the Exploration of the Nascaupee and George Rivers by Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior

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Literature

Anonymous

• Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes (short)
• Humor of the North, selected by Lawrence Burpee

G. Mercer Adam and A. Ethelwyn Wetherall

• The Algonquin Maid. A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada

Maude Alma

• Isabel Leicester, a Romance

Sophie Alnon

• Poems

R.M. Ballantyne

• Hudson Bay

Arthur Beverley Baxter

• The Parts Men Play

H. Beaugrand

• La Chasse Galerie: Legendes Canadiennes, in French

J. Cawdor Bell

• Two Knapsacks, a novel of Canadian summer life

Hector Bernier

• Au Large de L'Ecueil, in French

Augustus Bridle

• The Masques of Ottawa

J.-B. Caouette

• Une Intrigante sous le Regne de Frontenac, in French
• Les Voix Intimes

Bliss Carman

• Ballads of Lost Haven
• Behind the Arras, poetry
• More Songs from Vagabondia
• Vagabondia, poetry

H.s. Caswell

• The Path of Duty and Other Stories

Mary Hartwell Catherwood

• The Lady of Fort St. John

Ralph Centennius (pseudonym, real name unknown, published 1883)

• The Dominion in 1983

Joseph Horatio Chant

• Gleams of Sunshire, poetry

H.A. Cody

• Jess of the Rebel Trail
• The King's Arrow

Mrs. Harry Coghill (1836-1907)

• A Canadian Heroine
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3

Ralph Connor (1860-1937)

• Beyond the Marshes
• Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
• Corporal Cameron
• The Doctor
• The Foreigner: a Tale of Saskatchewan
• Glengarry School Days
• The Major
• The Man from Glengarry
• Michael McGrath, Postmaster
• The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
• The Prospector
• The Sky Pilot
• The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land
• To Him that Hath

Ridgewell Cullum

• The Triumph of John Kars

James Curwood (1878-1927)

• The Alaskan
• Back to God's Country and Other Stories
• Baree, Son of Kazan [the wolf dog]
• The Country Beyond: a Romance of the Wilderness
• The Courage of Captain Plum, 1912
• The Courage of Marge O'Doone
• The Danger Trail, 1910
• The Flaming Forest
• The Flower of the North
• God's Country -- and the Women
• The Golden Snare
• The Gold Hunters
• The Grizzly King: a Romance of the Wild, 1918
• The Honor of the Big Snows, 1911
• The Hunted Woman, 1915
• Isobel, a Romance of the Northern Trail
• Kazan [the wolf dog], 1914
• Nomads of the North: a Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars
• Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 1911
• The River's End
• The Valley of Silent Men: a Story of the Three River Country
• The Wolf Hunters, 1908

Charles DeGuise

• Cap au Diable: Legende Canadienne

James de Mille

• The American Baron

Harris Dickson

• The Black Wolf's Breed

William Drummond

• The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems
• The Voyageur and Other Poems

Scian Dubh

• Ridgeway. An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1868

Norman Duncan

• Doctor Luke of the Labrador
• Harbor Tales Down North

Sarah Jeanette Duncan

• Hilda, a Story of Calcutta

Stanford Eveleth

• Miss Dexie, a Romance of the Provinces

Samuel Fea

• Irish Ned, the Winnipeg Newsy

George Manville Fenn

• To the West

A. Filiatreault

• Contes, Anecdotes et Recits Candaiens dans le Langagee du Terroir, 1910

May Agnes Fleming

• Kate Danton

Hulbert Footner

• The Fur Bringers, a Story of the Canadian Northwest

Caroline Augusta Frazer

• Atma, a Romance

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

• Labrador Days
• A Labrador Doctor

Arthur Heming

• The Drama of the Forests

Helen Johnson

• Canadian Wild Flowers

Sergeant Ralph Kendall

• The Luck of the Mounted: a Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 1920

A.C. Laut

• Heralds of the Empire

Stephen Leacock

• Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels

Lydia Leavitt

• Bohemian Society

L. Pamphile Lenay

• L'Affaire Sougraine, in French

Madame Leprohon

• Antoinette de Mirecourt, in French

Marc L'Escarbot

• Adieu a la France, poetry in French, 1606
• Muses de la Nouvelle France, poetry in French, 1612

W.H.G. Kingston

• Log House by the Lake, a Tale of Canada
• Snow Shoes and Canoes

Robert Knowles

• St. Cuthbert's

C.A. Laut

• Lords of the North

W.D. Lighthall

• The False Chevalier
• Thoughts, Moods, and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure [poetry], 1887

Bessie Marchant

• A Countess from Canada

Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927)

• Lucy Raymond

Charles Mair

• Tecumseh, a drama

Captain Marryat

• Settlers in Canada

Nellie McClung

• The Second Chance

John McCrae

• In Flanders Fields

Norah McDougal

• Letters of Norah on Her Tour Through Ireland

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

• Anne of Avonlea
• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of the Island
• Anne's House of  Dreams
• Chronicles of Avonlea
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea
• The Golden Road
• Kilmeny of the Orchard
• Rainbow Valley
• Rilla of Ingleside
• The Story Girl
• Short Stories
• 1896-1901
• 1902-1903
• 1904
• 1905-1906
• 1907-1908
• 1909-1922

Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)

• Mark Huddlestone

Hopkins Moorhouse

• Deep Furrows
• Every Man for Himself

Kirk Munroe

• Under the Great Bear

Ernest Myrard

• Une Fete de Noel Sous Jacques Cartier, in French

Maud Ogilvy

• Marie Gourdon

George Orton

• Bob Hunt in Canada

Frank Packard

• The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
• The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
• The Miracle Man
• The White Moll

Gilbert Parker (1862-1932)

• The Battle of the Strong
• Cummer's Son and Other South Sea Folk
• Donovan Pasha
• Embers
• The Going of the White Swan
• John Enderby
• Lane that Had No Turning
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• A Lover's Diary
• March of the White Guard
• Michel and Angele
• The Money Master
• Mrs. Falchion
• No Defense
• Northern Lights
• Parables of a Province
• Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North (5 volumes in one file)
• The Pomp of the Lavilettes
• The Right of Way
• Romany of the Snows (5 volumes in one file)
• Seats of the Mighty
• There is Sorrow on the Sea (short)
• The Trail of the Sword
• The Translation of a Savage
• The Trespasser
• An Unpardonable Liar, 1900
• Weavers
• When Valmond Came to Pontiac
• Wild Youth
• You Never Know Your Luck

Randall Parrish

• Beth Norvell, a Romance of the West
• Bob Hampton of Placer
• The Devil's Own
• Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune
• Molly McDonald
• My Lady of Doubt
• Prisoners of Chance
• The Strange Case of Cavendish
• When Wilderness was King

William MacLoed Raine

• The Yukon Trail

St. George Rathbone

• Canoe Mates in Canada

Major John Richardson (1796-1852)

• The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled. A Tale of the Late American War
• Hardscrabble, or the Fall of Chicago, a Tale of Indian Warfare
• Wacousta, or The Prophecy

Sara Richardson

• Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal

Charles Sangster

• Hesperus and Other Poems

Wilfred Skeats

• The Song of the Exile, a Canadian Epic

Alice Prescott Smith

• Montlivet

F. Clifford Smith

• A Lover in Homespun and Other Stories

Andrew Learmont Spedon

• The Black-Sealed Letter

Chalres Stewart

• The Wrong Woman

Arthur Stringe

• Phantom Wires

Edward William Thomson

• Old Man Savarin and other Stories

Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899)

• Backwoods of Canada
• Canadian Crusoes. A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains, 1850
• In the Forest or Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada, 1881
• Lady Mary and Her Nurse
• Lost in the Back Woods, 1882

"Vera"

• Honor Edgeworth or Ottawa Present Tense

Dillon Wallace

• Left on the Labrador

William Henry Withrow

• Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher, a Tale of the War of 1812

Egerton Ryerson Young

• Three Boys in the Wild North land

T.F. Young

• Canada and Other Poems