Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of the earliest Ukrainian settlements in western Canada. Based on an analysis of government records, pioneer memoirs, and the Ukrainian and English language press, Community and...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Lehr, JohnSummary: - Author:Summary:
This book brings together the work of over twenty-five researchers to provide a comparative and empirically rich portrait of community-forestry policy and practice in Canada. Tackling all of the forestry regions from Newfoundland to...
- Author:Davis, SimonSummary:
Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future. This new edition has been substantially revised and expanded and includes a...
- Author:Newman, Peter C.Summary:
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history...
- Author:Seidle, F. LeslieSummary:
This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue...
- Author:Seidle, F. LeslieSummary:
This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue...
- Author:Pence, Alan R., Benner, AllisonSummary:
"The term 'capacity building' has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to...
- Author:Pavlis, RobertSummary:
Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies the full range of composting methods and helps readers determine or select the best technique for their situation. This comprehensive, plain-language, science-based book covers everything from...
- Author:Lewis, SuzanneSummary:
Gardeners call compost ''black gold''--it is the product of decomposition of your kitchen scraps and yard waste and it works miracles in your soil. Use it to fertilize your beds and gardens indoors and out, to amend problem soil, to...
- Author:Bateman, DavidSummary:
Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely over the past two decades -- as...
- Author:Miron, Dr. Pierre, Provençal, Mathieu, Gingras, Denis, Sandilands, BarbaraSummary:
In recent years, infertility has become a medical phenomenon that affects more and more adults of reproductive age. In western countries, between 10 and 15 percent of couples are infertile. These couples are victims of a silent human...
- Author:McClelland, Michael, McClelland, Michael, Stewart, Graeme, Stewart, GraemeSummary:
Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But...
- Author:Murray, JoanSummary:
In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the...
- Author:Wearing, AlisonSummary:
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her...
- Author:Pitts, FrankSummary:
During one of many lectures, my trainer explained that throughout a police officer’s career he or she will be called “pig” many times. The trainer explained that it should not be a cause for you to lose your composure. He said to...
- Author:Ross, StuartSummary:
Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough).
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the...
- Author:Rosenfarb, Chava, Morgentaler, GoldieSummary:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Author:Touhey, RyanSummary:
In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful...
- Author:Swift, Jamie, Tomlinson, BrianSummary:
Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada's role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted...
- Author:Mendes, Errol P., Srighanthan, SakunthalaSummary:
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers,...
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