Beginning in Canada's earliest days, our ancestors were required to perform some form of military service, often as militia. The discovery that an ancestor served during one of the major conflicts in our history is exciting. When you...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Cox, Kenneth G.Summary: - Author:Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:
This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer's passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives...
- Author:Coates, Ken S., Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Morrion, William R., Poelzer, GregSummary:
A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada's longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to...
- Author:Alexis, AndreSummary:
Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing...
- Author:Tanti, Melissa, Haynes, Jeremy, Coleman, Daniel, York, Lorraine, Bucknor, Michael, Collett, Anne, Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar, Fraile-Marcos, Ana María, Ivanovici, Cristina, Kalicanin, Milena, Kamboureli, Smaro, Kürtösi, Katalin, Lopicic, Vesna, Martín-Lucas, Belén, Omhovère, Claire, Otrísalová, Lucia, Sparling, Don, Verduyn, Christl, Yeoman, ElizabethSummary:
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by...
- Author:Crouse, RichardSummary:
In the middle of the conservative 1950s, rock and roll hit popular culture like an explosion—a Big Bang, Baby! And the fallout from that explosion is still electrifying music fans today. Popular music expert Richard Crouse has ventured...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
"Never talked about it." That's what most people say when they're asked if the veteran in the family ever shared wartime experiences. Describing combat, imprisonment or lost comrades from the World Wars, the Korea War, or even...
- Author:Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Evans, GarySummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these books we explore the lives of some Canadian pioneers in the world of performing arts. Profiled are: Mary Pickford, the...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal...
- Author:Green, BobSummary:
Eavesdroppings recounts life in the small towns of Ontario before sin arrived on the Internet—a time when churches were never locked and parents, not wishing to be disturbed while they listened to the radio, shooed their children out to...
- Author:Caldwell, Wayne J., Hilts, Stew, Wilton, BronwynneSummary:
As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base...
- Author:Lahey, D. T.Summary:
Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson...
- Author:Field-Marsham, Rita, Bozak, Kim, Viva, Frank, Martel, YannSummary:
In their book Glorious & Free, authors and creative directors Kim Bozak and Rita Field-Marsham are redefining how Canadians see themselves by shining a light on thirty-three daring individuals who, through the way they lead their...
- Author:Humber, Darryl, Humber, WilliamSummary:
Winter has shaped Canada's image and has been embraced with hearty enthusiasm from snowshoeing hikers in the 19th century, to future hockey stars on backyard rinks, to the indoor spectacle of figure-skating carnivals and curling...
- Author:Kulchyski, PeterSummary:
Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and...
- Author:Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:
Limited time offer. A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership. Several...
- Author:Gray, NowickSummary:
My Country expands the containers of essay and story, adventure and lyric, naturalism and fantasy, to overlap and mingle in this collection unified in its spirit of place, the forests and mountains of interior British Columbia. The...
- Author:Christian, WilliamSummary:
George Parkin was born the 13th child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world. Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense...
- Author:Groarke, Leo, Humber, WilliamSummary:
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker's Award. One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered...
- Author:Walker, RobynSummary:
Sergeant Gander is a fascinating account of the Royal Rifles of Canadas canine mascot, and his devotion to duty demonstrated during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War. Armed only with his formidable size, an intimidating...
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