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Butts, Edward

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.133 BUT

Summary: Prohibition was unpopular with many Americans and Canadians, but for dozens of coastal communities in Atlantic Canada hard hit by a fisheries downturn and recovering from World War I, it was seen as a golden business opportunity. The program depicts the high stakes role that Nova Scotia and the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon played during the era and explores how the social, economic, and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012

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Pascal, Janet B.

Summary: "Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the worlds most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHE BASKET

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Places What

Henríquez, Cristina

Summary: "A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC HEN

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