In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical...
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Auteur:Ellis, RonSommaire:Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative...
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Auteur:Smith, Charles W., Savage, LarrySommaire:Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. Unions in Court documents the evolution...
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Auteur:Zaremba, EveSommaire:Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium. It seems like an easy way to make a living to Helen; that is, until the body of an environmental activist turns up...
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Auteur:Cardinal, Linda, Grammond, Sébastien, Béland, Daniel, Lecours, AndréSommaire:Cet ouvrage montre de façon éloquente le rôle du Sénat dans la représentation politique des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (CFC). Les CFC ont droit à une représentation au Sénat qui découle d'une convention...
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Auteur:Baum, Daniel J.Sommaire:Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the...
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Auteur:Smucker, BarbaraSommaire:Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks...
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Mowafa Said Househ's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the...
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Auteur:Sutherland, SuzanneSommaire:2016 Junior Library Guild Selection 2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended She’s with the band, whether she likes it or not. Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only...
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Auteur:Doyle, BrianSommaire:Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare Selection. Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of...
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Auteur:Bass, KarenSommaire:Seventeen-year-old Erich is a prisoner of war working at a northern Alberta logging camp. Twelve-year-old Max goes to school-reluctantly-in the nearby town. The two would be unlikely friends, except that neither has anyone else to turn...
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Auteur:Panagos, DimitriosSommaire:In 1982, Canada formally recognized Aboriginal rights within its Constitution. The move reflected a consensus that states should and could use group rights to protect and accommodate subnational groups within their borders. Decades...
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A history of the afterlife of Mackenzie King in print and in Canadian culture. When King died in 1950 little was known publicly about his eccentric private life; King's final will declared that his voluminous diary should be...
- Auteur:Sterritt, AngelaSommaire:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Auteur:Vosters, HeleneSommaire:
Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of...
- Auteur:Vigneault, Gilles, Hellman, Thomas, Lambert, Yves, Cossette, Sylvain, Jorisch, StéphaneSommaire:
Livre enrichi musical – Collection Je Lis – Je Chante De Gilles Vigneault, illustrations Stéphane Jorisch avec Yves Lambert et Sylvain Cossette Avec des mots qui riment, le grand poète Gilles Vigneault invite les enfants à découvrir un...
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Nous sommes au début des années 1980. Mahatma Grafton vient de décrocher un emploi dans un quotidien de Winnipeg. C’est son premier poste. Avant même son arrivée, les journalistes s’amusent à deviner d’où il peut bien venir… On parie...
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Livre enrichi musical – Collection Je Lis – Je Chante Chansons de Gilles Vigneault, illustrations de Stéphane Jorisch avec Ariane Moffatt, Pierre Lapointe, Garou, Luce Dufault, Martin Léon, Luc De Larochellière et Jessica Vigneault....
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Auteur:Marchwell, D. W.Sommaire:Suite de Bon à savoir Bon à savoir, tome deux Cela fait presque une année que William a perdu ses parents et quitté la seule vie qu’il ait jamais connue pour un nouveau foyer au Canada. Mais aujourd’hui, William aime plus que tout...
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