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Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams
The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a ma...
The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. Yet all too frequen...
The titans at the Admiralty who fought the First World War
A vivid study of the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the A...
British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890
Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of ...
Victoria High School and the First World War
Canadian historian Barry Gough describes how five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School in British Columbia went to war and were...
British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-90
Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation ofIndian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusingon the interaction of We...
Once on the margins of European empires, notably those of France, England and Spain, then a focus of international rivalries and wars during the 18th ...
Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812
The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in ...
Marder and Roskill: Writing and Fighting Naval History
This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century ย the America...
History Lectures at Wilfrid Laurier University 1973-1974
This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973โ1974, given by the History ...
The Road to War, 1904-1914
Arthur Marder's critically acclaimed five volume series, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, represents one of the finest contributions to the literat...
Emma and Nelson
Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling ...
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness...
British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority...
A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound
A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by aw...
First Governor of Vancouver Island
Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first gover...
Titans at the Admiralty
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Alexander Mackenzie's Trek to the Pacific
Battle Ensign Flying
This is the story of Canada's greatest destroyer, the aggressive and hard-hitting Haida. She is Canada's most decorated warship, winning honours in th...
The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
An authoritative historical work as entertaining as any wild west adventure!...
The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
Sir Alexander Mackenzie is known to schoolchildren as a great Canadian explorer who gave his name to the countryโs longest river, but hardly anyone ...
Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon
This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica , in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, ...