A useful guide for planning for and using This Place: 150 Years Retold in the classroom.
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:M'Lot, ChristineSummary: - This place is who we are : stories of Indigenous leadership, resilience, and connection to homelandsAuthor:Gordon, Katherine PalmerSummary:
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters-and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are...
- Author:Quiney, Linda J.Summary:
With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly 2,000 women from Canada and...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively,...
- Author:Cohen, SheldonSummary:
A rare glimpse into an artist’s mind, his toolbox, and the world of film animation
The Sweater is one of the most beloved animated films of all time. Based on Roch Carrier’s short story, also known as “The...
- Author:Glynn, SteveSummary:
Steve Dangle's incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media star How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve "Dangle" Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto...
- Author:Pollon, Earl K., Matheson, Shirlee SmithSummary:
This Was Our Valley was a phenomenal success when first released in 1989, winning the Alberta Culture Nonfiction prize as well as the Silver medal for the Roderick-Haig Brown BC Books award. Construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
In this memoir, the author recreates the Montreal of his adolescence, of his family, of the friends he hung out with, and reveals their dream of Israel as homeland turned into a reality. Woven throughout are his observations and the...
- Author:Bélanger, Damien-ClaudeSummary:
Thomas Chapais is one of the great French-Canadian political and intellectual figures of the beginning of the 20th century. Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1892, then to the Senate of Canada in 1919, he played a...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the most fascinating events and...
- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the...
- Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:
Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
This piece was created to mark the tenth anniversary of an environmental catastrophe in the North Atlantic. The gigantic Northern Cod Stock discovered by European fishermen five centuries ago prompted the settlement of Newfoundland and...
- Author:Collier, EricSummary:
In 1930, Collier, his wife and young son reached the Stack Valley in B.C., where they lived in an abandoned cabin. He and his wife had promised her grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area that she knew as a child before the...
- Author:Purves, BillSummary:
Let me introduce you to Andrew, Pat, and Dr. Su: … three Chinese friends of mine. Andrew is a computer science professor at a university in Taipei; Pat works in the administration of a private club in Hong Kong. Dr. Su works in a...
- Author:Hoang, Jolie PhuongSummary:
Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone....
- Author:Ferguson, Julie H., MacNeil, Dan, Cairns, Peter W.Summary:
A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it. Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014....
- Author:Fezzani, NadiaSummary:
Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually...
- Author:Gough, BarrySummary:
The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the last year of the War of 1812. This...
- Author:Horn, ArtSummary:
A guide to making the leap from imposed accountability to personal commitment for both individuals and organizations. Accountability — we all want the people around us to be responsible, reveal genuine commitment, keep their word, and...
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