Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:McKegney, SamSummary: - Author:Benson, Ron.Summary:
Anthology functions as a thematic unit dealing with issues pertaining to change, invention, exploring and planning for the future. Includes fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and student writing, with substantial Canadian content.
- Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
A century of dealmaking and government misdeeds forms the backdrop of this entertaining account of sternwheelers, iron horses and mountain roads. Battling factions of rail builders crossed many a line in the sand as they carved up both...
- Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
The history of British Columbia's transportation systems north of the Canadian National Railway's mainline may not be well known—but it certainly is colourful. Continuing the story he began in the first volume of Carving the Western...
- Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
The sparsely populated southern Interior of British Columbia was rich in resources and ripe for settlement in the late 1800s. The agricultural lands of the Okanagan and Nicola valleys, and the precious metals and coal of the Kootenays,...
- Author:Todd, DouglasSummary:
This book will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the unique culture and spirituality of the fast-growing Pacific Northwest, which includes British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Envied by people around the world, Cascadia, as...
- Author:Sinclair, Raven, Carniol, Ben, Baines, Donna, Kennedy-Kish (Bell), BanakondaSummary:
Social services are in crisis: after numerous service cuts, many of its jobs are now short-term, part-time and non-unionized, prompting us to ask why is there not a greater public outcry for helping people in need? This book applies...
- Author:McMullan, PeterSummary:
Covering a span of more than 60 years, these classic fishing essays are brought together for the first time, celebrating the thoughts, pleasures and adventures of a devoted angler and renowned storyteller as he fishes some of the...
- Author:Horn, Bernd, Balasevicius, TonySummary:
Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada’s military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country’s history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist...
- Author:Scanlon, T. JosephSummary:
On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the worst man-made...
- Author:Borovoy, A. AlanSummary:
If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through...
- Author:Traill, Catherine Parr StricklandSummary:
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with...
- Author:Creedon, MarkSummary:
Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria. In April of 1944, their lives were forever altered when they were sent to a work camp in northeast Germany...
- Author:Jensen, Kurt F.Summary:
Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada's contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as...
- Author:S. Leach, Norman S., Melbourne, JohnSummary:
Many of the airmen of the First Word War who challenged both the enemy and death did not survive. These are their stories. In the clinging mud and trench warfare of WWI, it was soon clear that the cavalry — the elite of the elite —...
- Author:Doner, Sue, Robertson, Tara, Coolidge, AmandaSummary:
La Trousse d'outils d'accessibilité est une collaboration entre BCcampus et le Centre for Accessible Post-Secondary Education (CAPER-BC ou Centre pour les études post-secondaire accessible). BCcampus est une organisation financée par...
- Author:Richer, MarcSummary:
Ce grand homme que je cherchais est le récit très humain de l’histoire de Maco, un enfant qui a grandi à la recherche de l’idéal, espérant trouver un grand homme à travers un modèle de vie socialement valorisé. Marié pendant plusieurs...
- Author:Conrad, JohnSummary:
Si l’on se fie à tous les principes de la guerre et à la logique militaire, le soutien logistique de la force opérationnelle Orion du Canada aurait dû s’écrouler en juillet 2006. Peu de pays posent un défi logistique aussi important que...
- Author:Bibeau, Pierre, Denton, David, Burroughs, AndréSummary:
La réalisation de l’aménagement hydroélectrique de l’Eastmain-1 a créé en 2006 un réservoir de 603 kilomètres carrés sur le territoire d’Eeyou Istchee Baie-James. Des recherches archéologiques préventives y ont été menées entre 2002 et...
- Author:Lycopolus, Emily, Acken, DLSummary:
Homegrown, modern recipes that feature the most treasured local ingredients from Vancouver Island's forests, fields, farms and sea. Off the shore of Canada's west coast lies a food lover's island paradise. Vancouver Island's temperate...
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