With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and ...

A remarkable, beautifully designed photographic chronicle of Canada in the 20th century, full of unforgettable moments, some famous, some not, but all unique in their celebration of Canada in the last century. Organized chronologically, the 500 ...

Berton describes the follies and tragedies of the decade-long Depression and criticizes the political leaders who failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with unemployment, drought and despair. He portrays the ordinary people who ...

In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years ...

After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers -- a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.

One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and ...

The Canada-U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to ...

Pierre Berton's lively and occasionally rueful glance back over the past half-century.

Story leading up to the signing of the contract for the CPR.

BERTON'S THEME IS THE FRONTIER AND ITS EFFECT ON CANADIANS AS A WHOLE AND ON SEVEN REMARKABLE INDIVIDUALS NEGLECTED BY HISTORY. THIS BOOK SPANS MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AND FOUR THOUSAND MILES.