Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt...
Ontario
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Auteur:Peddie, Francis, Loewen, RoydenSommaire: - Auteur:Nickerson, JaniceSommaire:
Not only professional soldiers but also citizens serving as militiamen participated in the War of 1812. The militia’s contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don’t know how many Upper...
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Auteur:Strange, MarcSommaire:Stolen gems. Shady cops. Murders that could lead to an international incident. Orwell Brennan, chief of the Dockerty police force in small-town Ontario, had enough problems on his hands with the mayoral election, a daughter engaged, and...
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Auteur:Charron, Suzanne F.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Atcheson, Beth, Marsden, LornaSommaire:During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with the Ontario government of Premier William...
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Auteur:Ricci, NinoSommaire:Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after...
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Auteur:Swift, JamieSommaire:Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and...
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Auteur:Boyden, JosephSommaire:In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.
He realizes too late just how far away he is from home. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest, who comment on his...
- Auteur:Jacobsen, AnnieSommaire:
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and...
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Auteur:Lee, John B.Sommaire:Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
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Auteur:Ross, JeffSommaire:In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Rob is involved in a violent incident in a northern community.
- Auteur:Angus, CharlieSommaire:
For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine...
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For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction novels "for summertime." This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when...
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Auteur:Dorais, François-OlivierSommaire:À la fois témoin et acteur des grandes transformations socio-identitaires qui ont marqué l'Ontario français depuis la fin des années 1960, Gaétan Gervais est aussi connu à titre de créateur du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Les...
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Auteur:Lorimer, RowlandSommaire:The definitive policy overview of the book publishing industry in Canada
In a thorough exploration of Canada’s book industry, Ultra Libris provides a historical backdrop to understand modern events in...
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Auteur:Coakley, MarkSommaire:The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye–opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip...
- Auteur:Boyden, JosephSommaire:
Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and...
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Auteur:Goodbrand, GrantSommaire:At one point in the 1970s, 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic community in Toronto. Living together, and sharing emotional problems, the participants helped to create an institution owning houses, farms, and buildings....
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Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year. Does faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania? Is heavenly forgiveness possible this side...
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