This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. Drawing from rich narrative sources, this work uses the local to understand the national, revealing what...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Vance, Jonathan F.Summary: - Author:Walsh, KirbySummary:
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and professor at Harvard University, Moore...
- Author:Chacaby, Ma-Nee, Plummer, Mary LouisaSummary:
A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories...
- Author:Anderson, William C.Summary:
Have you ever longed to voyage across country in a travel trailer? Camp under the stars? Barbecue your meals in the shadow of magnificent mountains? See the wonders of Canada? Fish wild northern waters? The Family Anderson rather did-...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired...
- Author:Friedman, AviSummary:
A View from the Porch is an illuminating collection of 22 essays about the points where design touches life and the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighbourhoods. Drawing on his...
- Author:Gibson, MorrisSummary:
The Gibson family, of One Man's Medicine, emigrates to the Canadian West. Readers will recall that Gibson and his wife, both Scottish physicians, were established in family practice near the English port city of Hull. In time,...
- Author:Kirkwood Walker, StephanieSummary:
Commended for the 2003 Honourable Mention for Superb Craftsmanship in Production The early settlers of Waterloo County - Mennonites, Germans, and Scots - built enterprising communities in a land of rivers, rolling hills, and fields....
- Author:Read, Nicholas, Down, ChristianSummary:
Whale's World follows a pod of spy-hopping orcas as they explore the ecosystems of the Great Bear Sea while hunting for their next meal. Past rocky shores and through kelp forests, they observe foraging wolves, hungry grizzly bears,...
- Author:Thompson, BrendaSummary:
A history of the poor house evolution in Nova Scotia, based on British Elizabethan Poor Laws. Includes profiles of the 32 government-sponsored poor houses built in the province between 1885 and 1972.
- Author:Bidini, DaveSummary:
On the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, a personal and poetic journey into the heart of hockey in Canada. As summer turned to fall in 1972, Canada was redefining itself and its place in the world. Politically, a spirited...
- Author:Hamilton, John David, Dickie, BonnieSummary:
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a...
- Author:Brown, CassieSummary:
It was a snowy, stormy night, that February 23, 1918, when the sturdy S.S. Florizel steamed out of St. John’s harbour, bound for Halifax and New York. Captain William Martin, a cautious and competent skipper, encountered thick...
- Author:Daly, DianaSummary:
In this touching, often humorous remembrance, Diana Daly introduces young readers to her smart, funny, and caring great aunties and uncles-six remarkable people who lived with skeletal dysplasia at a time when the condition was not well...
- Author:Waiser, BillSummary:
Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of western Canada. It was a landscape...
- Author:Freeman, VictoriaSummary:
Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little community acceptance or support for...
- Author:Penn, BrionySummary:
A freshly designed, new edition of a funny weekly chronicle that offers a year-long, intimate view of the flora and fauna populating the West Coast. A Year on the Wild Side is a witty commentary on the social and natural history of...
- Author:Larsen, WayneSummary:
Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved...
- Author:Goldsborough, GordonSummary:
Travel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at...
- Author:Rutkowski, Chris A.Summary:
We can’t escape them; aliens are everywhere. They sell us soft drinks and star in their own sitcoms. But to the many people who believe they have been abducted aboard strange crafts, aliens are a very serious reality. Stories of these...
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