Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior...
British Columbia Collection
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Auteur:Althaus, Catherine, O'Faircheallaigh, CiaranSommaire: - Auteur:Tanaka, Michele TDSommaire:
Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-...
- Auteur:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSommaire:
In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
- Auteur:Glasgow, Ellen Anderson GholsonSommaire:
- Auteur:Hume, StephenSommaire:
From hospitals to dance halls, from the classroom to the cannery, this insightful history examines indigenous and immigrant women's positions in the workplace, home and wilderness. Unforgettable stories of women surviving in the...
- Auteur:White, CharlieSommaire:
Fishing guru Charlie White explains the equipment and techniques for harvesting seafood, like getting the best yields of shrimp, crabs, oysters and many species of fish, including sea perch, greenling, red snapper, cod and sole. Learn...
- Auteur:Brownlee, MaureenSommaire:
It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the...
- Auteur:Czajkowski, ChrisSommaire:
The story is told by the author's dog, Lonesome. She did not share her human's love of the wilderness, and wore a martyred expression for most of her life. She would have much preferred a life in the suburbs. Her dog's eye view provides...
- Auteur:Bolan, KimSommaire:
When Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri walked out of a Vancouver courtroom as free men in March 2005, the nation gasped in disbelief. The prime suspects for the murder of 331 people in the 1985 Air India bombings had been...
- Auteur:Tippett, MariaSommaire:
Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? The eight creative figures profiled in Made in British Columbia are not just distinguished artists who made an enduring mark on Canadian...
- Auteur:Fralic, ShelleySommaire:
- Auteur:BLADES, AnnSommaire:
Mary's father tells her she cannot keep a wolf puppy since the only animals kept by families in the cold North are those that work or provide food.
- Auteur:Hauka, Donald J.Sommaire:
Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the United States in 1859? In "McGowan's War," Donald J. Hauka argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation during the...
- Auteur:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Sommaire:
Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
- Auteur:Wagamese, RichardSommaire:
Set in the dramatic landscape of the BC Interior, 16 year-old Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon, a man he barely knows. The rare moments they have shared trouble Frank, but, he answers the call, a son's duty to a...
- Auteur:De Vries, MaggieSommaire:
On April 14, 1998, Sarah de Vries disappeared from her usual spot on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver. She became one of the many women who had vanished from the Downtown Eastside—women, most of them sex workers and drug...
- Auteur:Robinson, EdenSommaire:
The Haisla community on the north west coast of British Columbia is devastated when the pride of their village, young Jimmy Hill, disappears at sea in a boating accident. Jimmy's sister Lisamarie reflects on the effect his death has on...
- Auteur:Boudreau, JackSommaire:
In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and the results of friendships gone sour. When men went missing, or furs were stolen, it was often up to the...
- Auteur:Sterling, ShirleySommaire:
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots....
- Auteur:Williams, MauriceSommaire:
The Kettle Valley Railway played a vital role in developing the southern interior of British Columbia. This is the story of the unnamed labourers who physically built this incredible railway line, working long hours for not much pay....
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