Books from James Lorimer & Company

  • Hamilton Street Names: An Illustrated History
    Hamilton Street Names: An Illustrated History
    By Margaret Houghton

    Richly illustrated with archival photographs, this book offers fascinating views into the past of the new Hamilton.

  • Shooting Star
    Shooting Star
    By Cynthia Bates

    Maybe playing with the Shooting Stars would get my mind off things . ... But during the preceding summer , while Amelie was visiting her grandparents in Prince Edward Island , Jessie had met and made friends with Anna Archer at a summer ...

  • Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War
    Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War
    By Pamela Hickman, Masako Fukawa

    During the Second World War, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians had their civil rights, homes, possessions, and freedom taken away. This visual-packed book tells the story.

  • Sex in Schools: Canadian Education & Sexual Regulation
    Sex in Schools: Canadian Education & Sexual Regulation
    By Our Schools/Our Selves Education Foundation

    In a world in which women have less power than men , women come to learn that our bodies are dangerous for us : they ... 12 Danger , Pleasure and the Teenage Girl Suddenly , her body is no longer at her own disposal , but has become a ...

  • The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History
    The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History
    By Michael Payne

    In this book, extensively illustrated with visuals from some of Canada's most prominent museums and archives, historian Michael Payne explores the personalities and events that shaped this powerful business.

  • The Developers
    The Developers
    By James Lorimer

    Provincial housing agencies erected high - rise buildings themselves for public and senior citizen housing ... on housing as the basis for objecting to new high - rise public housing projects in Ontario , where these were concentrated .

  • Beautiful Ontario Towns
    Beautiful Ontario Towns
    By Fred Dahms

    ... Grand River cruises; Lion's Park Swimming Pool; marina; outfitters; fishing guides; tennis courts Recreation, Sports, ... Four H Club; golf and country club; Girl Guides; hockey clubs; horticultural society; Junior Farmers; Kinsmen; ...

  • Double Play
    Double Play
    By Sara Cassidy

    Allie loves baseball.

  • The Age of Ecology: The Environment on CBC Radio's Ideas
    The Age of Ecology: The Environment on CBC Radio's Ideas
    By David Cayley

    Vandana Shiva To me , it's a kind of a one - eyed science , literally , a one - eyed science that looks only to the market and then tries to design instruments to feed the market . There's a very lovely phrase that one of the women in ...

  • Memories are made of this: What it was like to grow up in the Fifties
    Memories are made of this: What it was like to grow up in the Fifties
    By Melinda McCracken

    What it was like to grow up in the Fifties Melinda McCracken. Memories are made of this This One 9KYX - 9KG - PYLD T Memories are made of this Melinda McCracken James Lorimer.

  • Inflation or Depression: The Continuing Crisis of the Canadian Economy
    Inflation or Depression: The Continuing Crisis of the Canadian Economy
    By Cy Gonick

    From the political economy of the hinterland the nature , horizons and policy of its dominant class can be deduced . The dominant class is directly dependent on the metropole ; other classes , in contrast , are defined by their ...

  • Best Laid Plans
    Best Laid Plans
    By Christine Hart

    Robyn's family has always struggled to make enough money to survive.

  • The Patricks: Hockey's Royal Family
    The Patricks: Hockey's Royal Family
    By Eric Whitehead

    Tracing the development of an influential hockey dynasty in great detail, The Patricks: Hockey's Royal Family offers a lively, colourful account of the game's exciting history.

  • Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!
    Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!
    By Brigitte Alepin

    I never could have imagined that one day I would write a book with the title Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! But life and timing sometimes force us to say unexpected things. I chose to put Bill Gates in the title ...

  • Danger Zone
    Danger Zone
    By Michele Martin Bossley

    Powerful and entertaining, Danger Zone follows the struggle of an underdog -- both on and off the ice. [Fry Reading Level - 3.8

  • Summit Series '72: Eight Games that Put Canada on Top of World Hockey
    Summit Series '72: Eight Games that Put Canada on Top of World Hockey
    By Richard Brignall

    Chronicles the history of the epic 1972 Summit Series which was intended to settle the score on whether the Canadians or the Soviets had the world's best hockey team.

  • The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash
    The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash
    By Johanna Brand

    Foreword Acknowledgements Chronology Map 1/ Just Another Dead Indian 2/ Wounded Knee, 1973 3/ From Shubenacadie to Wounded Knee 4/ The FBI's Secret War on Dissent 5/ From Battlefield to Courtroom 6/ Douglass Durham, Agent Provocateur 7/ The ...

  • Financing the Future: Canada's Capital Markets in the Eighties
    Financing the Future: Canada's Capital Markets in the Eighties
    By Arthur Donner

    Financing the Future is an immediate and detailed analysis of the state of Canadian capital markets in the early 1980s.

  • The Mass Media in Canada: Fourth Edition
    The Mass Media in Canada: Fourth Edition
    By Mary Vipond

    24 Keith J. Tuckwell, Canadian Advertising in Action (Toronto: Pearson, 8th ed., 2009), pp. 55–59. 25 CRTC, “Broadcast Advertising Basics,” www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/ b300.htm 26 Calculations from Canadian Media Directors' Council, ...

  • The CPR: A century of corporate welfare
    The CPR: A century of corporate welfare
    By Robert Chodos

    From an auspicious beginning it grew immensely wealthy and powerful. Robert Chodos, in an unorthodox company history, explains how the CPR did it.