Between France and New France is an absorbing look at life abroad the sailing vessels which plied the North Atlantic during the French colonial era in North America. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century and the Seven...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Proulx, GillesSummary: - Author:Krause, CarolSummary:
Adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability. This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to different aspects of the writers’ lives, including education and...
- Author:McCormick, Peter, Greene, IanSummary:
As a judge, Beverley McLachlin is known for her unique ability to stand up for the values and beliefs that reflect the best of Canada and Canadians. As chief justice, she led the way to assisted suicide legislation, greater recognition...
- Author:Tanti, MelissaSummary:
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:Selby, Jennifer, Barras, Amelie, Beaman, Lori G.Summary:
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective,...
- Author:Fergusson, James, Furtado, FrancisSummary:
For over a decade, Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan dominated media headlines, government discussions, academic studies, and the public international security debate. Now that the mission in Afghanistan is over, what...
- Author:Terry, BillSummary:
Beyond Beauty is the story of a remarkable journey that Bill Terry and his wife, Rosemary, undertook when they joined a party of Dutch and British alpine plant hunters intent on botanizing on the roof of the world. The expedition...
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D., Montour, Bill, Six Nations of the Grand River, Paul, Candice, St. Mary’s First Nation, Paul, Lawrence, Millbrook First Nation, Day, Isadore, Serpent River First NationSummary:
The current Status criteria of the Indian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the...
- Author:Boissery, Beverley, Short, BronwynSummary:
Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the...
- Author:Mallea, Paula, Latimer, CatherineSummary:
A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary. Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all...
- Author:High, StevenSummary:
Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. The contributors to Beyond Testimony and Trauma consider other...
- Author:Woodcock, GeorgeSummary:
Beyond the Blue Mountains details Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential Canadian...
- Author:Phillips, DianaSummary:
Pan Phillips and Rich Hobson founded some of the most isolated ranches in North America. This is the story of Phillips' youngest daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskrat as a toddler, and was known as the only person feisty enough to...
- Author:Erregue-Sacchi, LucianaSummary:
A collection of 14 creative non-fiction essays that intersect food, geography, politics, heritage, language, and nostalgia allowing new connections to flourish between cuisines, authors, nationalities, and the texts themselves.
- Author:Armas, Liuba González deSummary:
A multi-genre anthology on visual experiences from 8 hyphened-Canadian writers.
- Author:Allen, RichardSummary:
Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and...
- Author:Urquhart, EmilySummary:
The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, NL, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. After three months of medical testing, Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a...
- Author:Noble, David F.Summary:
Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and...
- Author:Jones, AllanSummary:
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New...
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For over 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served its community with innovative programming, but the full story of this venerable institution has never been told-until now. From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured...
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