History
Short Nonfiction Collection
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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independentl…
Founder of New France
Read by Kevin McAsh
Charles W. Colby
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…
Jesuit Missions
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Thomas Guthrie Marquis
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, foll…
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
WWII News and Related Sound files
Explore the fascinating world of Old Time Radio with this collection of WWII news and related sound files from 1943. These recordings captur…
LibriVox Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…
Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador
Read by Maria Therese
Augustine Berthe, Augustine Berthetranslated Bymary Elizabeth Ashe À Court-Repington, Baroness He…, Augustine Berthetranslated By Mary Elizabeth Ashe À Court-Repington, Baroness H… and Augustin Berthe
Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian pol…
Champlain
Read by Cate Barratt
Narcisse-Eutropee Dionne
A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( Summary by Cathy Barratt )
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
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Susanna Moodie
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…
The Journal of John Woolman
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John Woolman
John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his y…
All Afloat
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William Wood
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt …
Notes of a War Correspondent
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Richard Harding Davis
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African …
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert
Read by David Wales
Izaak Walton
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C. Sir Henry…
Early explorations in New South Wales
Read by Phil Benson
John Price
In the early days of the penal colony at Sydney, rumour was rife among the convicts of another colony beyond the Blue Mountains and perhaps …
Historical Tales
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, …
Petite histoire de Belgique
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Edward Le Glay
Voici un aperçu de l'histoire du petit royaume de Belgique, au carrefour des grandes nations européennes, depuis les temps anc…
WWII News and Related Sound files
Explore the fascinating world of Old Time Radio with this collection of WWII news and related sound files from 1942. These recordings captur…
Human Sacrifice
Read by Jeff Allen
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…