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Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some fiction and non-fiction titles to explore Canadian history!

Updated June 26, 2025

Greater Victoria Public Library

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Reconciling history : a story of Canada

Wilson-Raybould, Jody

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One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 * One of the Toronto Star's 25 books to read this season * One of Kobo CA's Best Nonfiction Ebooks of the Year * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From the #1 national bestselling...

Daughters of the deer

Daniel, Danielle

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family's ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers. ...

The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

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In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so...

White riot : the 1907 anti-Asian riots in Vancouver

Tsang, Henry

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WINNER, City of Vancouver Book Prize and Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC); FINALIST, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in...

The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of Native People in North America

King, Thomas

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the...

The home for unwanted girls : a novel

Goodman, Joanna

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Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit--the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English...

The memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. a true and exact accounting of the history of Turtle Island / Vol. one

Monkman, Kent

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gis le Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers' understanding of the land called North America. For decades,...

The sleeping car porter

Mayr, Suzette

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FEATURED ON MICHELLE OBAMA'S INSTAGRAM SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE 2022 GILLER PRIZE WINNER OF THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 GEORGES BUGNET AWARD FOR FICTION ...

All the quiet places : a novel

Isaac, Brian Thomas

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Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted...

Junie

Knight, Chelene

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Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024 A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former...

Looking for Jane

Marshall, Heather

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For readers of Joanna Goodman and Genevieve Graham comes a masterful debut novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose--inspired by true stories. Tell them you're...

The loyal daughter : a novel

Lam, Nancy

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The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates to an isolated...

The taste of hunger

Scott, Barbara

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Shortlisted for the 2024 KOBZAR Book Award A Quill and Quire 2022 Book of the Year A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan...

Indian Horse : a novel

Wagamese, Richard

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Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his...

Terry & me : the inside story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

Vigars, Bill

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There has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there's never been a story quite like The Marathon of Hope. A twenty-two-year-old cancer survivor and amputee, Terry set out from St. John's, Newfoundland in April 1980, aiming to run across Canada to raise money for cancer...

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