The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Mťis, and Inuit knowledges of...
Canada
- Auteur:Marshall,Shawn (Shawn J.), Stevens, Madison, McDowell, GrahamSommaire:
- Auteur:Jackson, D. MichaelSommaire:
An integral part of Canada’s political culture, the constitutional monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. Canada inherited the constitutional monarchy from Britain even...
- Auteur:Wruk, Brian D., Ritchie, Terry F.Sommaire:
Approximately 50,000 Canadians move to the U.S. every year. Already, there are hundreds of thousands of ex-Canadians living south of the border. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, and products of these two...
- Auteur:Pammett, Jon H., Dornan, ChristopherSommaire:
The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the...
- Auteur:Bailey, Carole Sue, Cathy DolbySommaire:
Developed in conjunction with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, this comprehensive new dictionary of American Sign Language (ASL) has over 8700 signs, many unique to Canada. Material for this extensive work has been drawn from...
- Auteur:Millar, Erin, Coli, BenSommaire:
A comprehensive and honest guide to the Canadian college and university experience, offering down-to-earth advice on everything from choosing your major to surviving residence, from acing exams to partying safely. For most students,...
- Auteur:Thompson, Reginald 'Dutch'Sommaire:
Reginald-better known as 'Dutch'-Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices-those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others-to tell the stories of...
- Auteur:Zaremba, EveSommaire:
The fifth book in a highly successful series, The Butterfly Effect takes detective Helen Keremos to Japan. There she becomes involved in a complex series of crimes that have ramifications from the Far East to Europe and North America....
- Auteur:Zierer, TitaSommaire:
Short stories of Greek newcomers to Toronto during the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Stories that offer insight into what it means to be a Greek Canadian, coming from a land of close-knit family and traditions, to one colder in climate and...
- Auteur:Atwood, MargaretSommaire:
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade...
- Auteur:Wilson, CarlSommaire:
Thirteen short stories inspired by Broken Social Scene’s groundbreaking album, You Forgot It In People. With a foreword by Carl Wilson, author of Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. In celebration of both...
- Auteur:Tregebov, MichaelSommaire:
There is a Jewish proverb that goes: "Grandchildren are your reward from God for not having murdered your children." And so THE BRISS begins, with Sammy, the father of two grown children he would like to choke the life out of. His...
- Auteur:Mason, Susan AnneSommaire:
Quinten Aspinall is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father to keep his family together. To do so, he must travel to Canada to find his younger siblings, who were sent there as indentured workers while Quinn was...
- Auteur:Doyle, BrianSommaire:
Up to Low. Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters,...
- Auteur:Doyle, BrianSommaire:
Boy O’Boy. Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother counts on.Angel SquareYoung...
- Auteur:Kurdi, TimaSommaire:
"An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdithe young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugeesand of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken,...
- Auteur:Taylor, Drew HaydenSommaire:
"Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic, and bittersweet magic in these two plays about children growing up Native in a non-Native world. In 'The boy in the treehouse,' Simon pursues a vision quest in an attempt to reclaim his...
- Auteur:Argyle, RaySommaire:
Edward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his...
- Auteur:Wynne-Jones, TimSommaire:
Two years after his father mysteriously disappeared, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. Then Ruth Rose crashes into his life. A sixteen-year-old misfit whose manic moods have to be managed...
- Auteur:King, Cecil O.Sommaire:
Cecil King's remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada. Cecil King grew up in the small settlement of Buzwah, Ontario, situated on...