An honest memoir that deconstructs an evolving father-son relationship, uncovers the struggles in becoming one of Canada's most respected adventure cyclists and the dramatic impact of a recent cancer diagnosis. In the summer of...
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Auteur:Pratt, MarySommaire:Mary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy features Mary's own writings, drawn and adapted from her personal journals, the essays that she has written for numerous publications ranging from The Globe and Mail to The Glass Gazette, and the...
- Auteur:Milloy, John S., McCallum, Mary Jane LoganSommaire:
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing...
- Auteur:Milloy, John S.Sommaire:
'I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.' — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) '[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis,...
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Auteur:Mason, MichaelSommaire:When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped...
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Auteur:Czajkowski, ChrisSommaire:In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. In her journal, she describes the seasonal transformation with her trademark expressiveness; each day brings...
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Auteur:Ryan, DarleneSommaire:For much of her adult life, Darlene believed she wouldn't make a good mother: "Besides, I couldn't admit to anyone that I didn't know how to do mother things. So I married someone who didn't want to have children either." Everything...
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Auteur:Hume, Stephen EatonSommaire:Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie's father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother's death, and soon has to deal with his own...
- Auteur:Elliott, AliciaSommaire:
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal,...
- Auteur:Carley, RodSommaire:
Will Crosswell’s decision to pursue acting shattered his father’s dream of him being a useful adult. When we first meet the young Will he is a wolf in wolf’s clothing. But in the ensuing years, from relationships to the theatre, his...
- Auteur:Oliver, DonaldSommaire:
Growing up in the only Black family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Donald Oliver felt duty-bound to honour his great-grandparents, who had fled slavery in the US. His childhood, surrounded by music, family, and respected, hard-working role...
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Auteur:Bartleman, JamesSommaire:A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada’s Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog...
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Auteur:McFetridge, JohnSommaire:Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural
Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three...
- Auteur:Nelles, H. V.Sommaire:
A vast and diverse country whose very legitimacy is questioned by some of its people, under constant threat of cultural assimilation by a powerful neighbour, yet deemed by the U.N. to be one of the best places to live, Canada at times...
- Auteur:Hoy, BenjaminSommaire:
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their...
- Auteur:D'Arcy, Stephen, Black, Toban, Weis, Tony, Kahn Russell, JoshuaSommaire:
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents (who are fighting a powerful international industry) are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are...
- Auteur:Whishaw, IonaSommaire:
A Lethal Lesson(#8). Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in...
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Auteur:Juillet, Luc, Rasmussen, KenSommaire:En 1908, afin de lutter contre le favoritisme qui mine autant l'efficacité de l'administration publique que la démocratie, le Parlement canadien décrète que les fonctionnaires de l'État seront dorénavant nommés selon le...
- Auteur:Fontaine, Phil, Craft, AiméeSommaire:
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred...
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