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1867:
How the Fathers Made a Deal

1867 is also about Canada in the 21st century. This dramatic, page-turning account of how the founders of Canada put together a successful constitution-making process has startling comparisons and conclusions about contemporary Canadian politics. Dalton Camp called it "just about the best book on our history I've ever read." Still widely available.

Astonishing photographs show Canada growing year by year from 1900 to 1999, with a surprising text commentary by philosopher Mark Kingwell and Christopher Moore. Canada: Our Century became the publishing sensation of the millennium eve in 1999, with 50,000 copies sold in barely three months.

Chris contributed a long chapter on Canadian beginnings, 1600 to 1763, to this multi-authored history of Canada. "This one does everything!" exclaimed one reviewer. A bestseller when first published in 1987, the Illustrated History continues to set the standard among one-volume Canadian histories, and it has been translated into both French and Spanish. A brand-new revised edition marks the book's fifteenth anniversary.

Louis Davory, Marie-Louise Cruchon, Jean Lelarge … true stories of the lives, aspirations, and fates of extraordinary ordinary people in an eighteenth-century city, seaport, and fortress. This was Chris's first book, and it has never been out of print since 1982. The 2000 edition from McClelland and Stewart has a new afterword.

What does fiction know about history? Chris contributed a thought-provoking introduction to this collection of short fiction about historical themes by Canada's leading fiction writers: Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Roch Carrier, Antoinine Maillet, and many others.

Lawyers get involved in everything: land, business, politics, crime, families, power, passion. So this history of Ontario's lawyers is also a history of Ontario from an unusual and surprising angle. The book was originally commissioned by the Law Society to mark its two-hundredth anniversary. Ask your bookseller or contact University of Toronto Press directly.

First published for the 1983-84 bicentenary of the arrival of the Loyalists in Canada, The Loyalists has been called "sympathetic, comprehensive, balanced… the best introduction to the Loyalist story." Still in print in trade paperback.

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The full-scale, lavishly-illustrated history of Canada for young readers and their families. An instant best-seller from its first publication in 1992, it has a special place in a hundred thousand Canadian homes as one of Canada's most loved books. Chosen one of Canada's top ten young people's books of the century.

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Adventurers: Hudson's Bay Company: The Epic Story	Champlain	Mathurin Brochu of New France	William Van Horne	Peggy Crysler of Upper Canada