In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Métis...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary: - Author:Hunt, RobertSummary:
Townies is the sequel to Robert Hunt’s memoir Corner Boys and takes us back to the mean streets – and schools – of St. John’s in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a coming-of-age story about the friendships between young...
- Author:Baker, G. Blaine, Janda, RichardSummary:
Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy,...
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by...
- Author:Gunn, GenniSummary:
Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents, from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born and spent her early years, to Canada and Mexico, and through Asia, where she has travelled many times, both...
- Author:Varro, Joe, Kerr, DonSummary:
Tracks: The Art and Times of Switchman Joe, by Joe Varro celebrates Joe Varro's railway paintings, his bunkhouse sketches in pencil, prints, personal photographs, watercolors and paintings in oil and acrylic. This book is also a social...
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As you enter the workforce, it is important to understand the major trends in employment and how to find this information. In this competency, we'll look some of the current major trends in employment in Canada and British Columbia....
Resource URLs: - Author:Lidstone, RodSummary:
In most provinces, one or more agencies are responsible for safe, healthful working environments at job sites. These organizations normally have names such as the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) or the Occupational Health and Safety...
- Author:Lidstone, RodSummary:
As you enter the workforce, it is important to understand the major trends in employment and how to find this information. In this Competency, we'll look some of the current major trends in employment in Canada and British Columbia....
- Author:Lidstone, RodSummary:
As a trades worker you have a responsibility to work safely, and fire prevention is a primary concern. Many of the work tasks you carry out include the application of heat and flame. You should be able to apply fire prevention practices...
- Author:Jamieson, EricSummary:
On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of...
- Author:Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Hargrave, LetitiaSummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to...
- Author:MacMillan, C. Michael, Loat, AlisonSummary:
The founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara draw on eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada. Though...
- Author:Christmas, Jane, Torti, JulesSummary:
A rollicking travel memoir that invites the curious, the initiated, and even the skeptics to tag along on the ever-changing landscape of 'The Way'. For many, walking the Camino is a decision predictably triggered by death, divorce, or a...
- Author:Mather, KenSummary:
A revealing history of the ancient trail that served as a major transportation route between Washington and British Columbia and shaped the cultural and economic ties between the two jurisdictions. Trails are the most enduring memorials...
- Author:Main Johnson, LeslieSummary:
Trail of Story examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dene of the...
- Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:
Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cassiar district of British Columbia. The trail is the historic track from Wrangell, Alaska...
- Author:Foran, Maxwell L.Summary:
Alberta’s ranching heritage occupies an important place in the province’s historical consciousness. Trails and Trials documents the development of the beef cattle industry in Alberta from its open-range ranching phase to the beginnings...
- Author:Champagne, SamuelSummary:
« Sois jolie, sois mince, sois forte, sois polie, bien éduquée et plus intelligente », disait le père de Samuel. Pendant des années, ce dernier s'est demandé comment bien vivre, comment être une bonne fille. Il a...
- Author:Karpinski, Eva C., Henderson, Jennifer, Sowton, Ian, Ellenwood, RaySummary:
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has...
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