Daughters of Aataentsic highlights and connects the unique lives of seven Wendat/Wandat women whose legacies are still felt today. Spanning the continent and the colonial borders of New France, British North America, Canada, and the...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Magee Labelle, KathrynSummary: - Author:Ruthig, IngridSummary:
To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate...
- Author:Shardlow, TomSummary:
Across North America in 2007-2009, communities will celebrate the David Thompson Bicentennials. For 34 years the great explorer, surveyor, and fur trader travelled across the continent, finding and mapping the routes between the St....
- Author:Andra-Warner, ElleSummary:
Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres...
- Author:Watmough, DavidSummary:
David Watmough, often spoken of as Canada’s senior gay male fiction writer, has committed his memories to paper in Myself Through Others. Watmough is well-known for his fiction featuring gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, and the...
- Author:Pitt, SteveSummary:
Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a black staff car, the...
- Author:Dewdney, A.K.Summary:
Daylight in the Swamp is the bush memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney, a noted Canadian artist and recorder of native rock art. His two great loves, art and the Canadian north, come together in this book. His respect for native culture and art is...
- Author:Callan, Kevin, Raffan, JamesSummary:
A collection of adventures (and misadventures) spent travelling in the wilderness. Kevin Callan presents his best adventures – and misadventures – in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and...
- Author:Backhouse, ConstanceSummary:
Malgré l'ouverture proclamée des Canadiens face à la diversité ethnique et culturelle, l'histoire canadienne n'en est pas moins marquée par la discrimination systématique. Cet ouvrage expose la ténacité juridique de cette...
- Author:Matteau, AndréeSummary:
La pornographie, millénaire, archaïque, conservatrice, puritaine et statique continue de se répandre comme une traînée de poudre, de se banaliser, d’un océan à l’autre. Comment et pourquoi s’est-elle développée? Que se cache-t-il sous...
- Author:Benabdesselam, LindaSummary:
Une équipe de diététistes professionnelles présente les grands principes qui doivent guider l'alimentation du bébé y compris l'allaitement et l'alimentation de la femme qui allaite. Quand bébé sera-t-il prêt à commencer les solides ?...
- Author:Portelance, ColetteSummary:
Si vous voulez identifier les systèmes qui nuisent à l’harmonie de vos relations affectives, si vous souhaitez que votre relation amoureuse et toutes vos autres relations importantes pour vous reposent sur une meilleure connaissance de...
- Author:Guénette, Denise, Desjardins, RichardSummary:
Cinquante ans de scène, de trac et de passion du métier, ça se souligne et ça se fête ! Dans ce livre, l’humoriste Denise Guénette raconte son parcours artistique et l’accompagne de plusieurs monologues inédits. S’ajoutent à son récit,...
- Author:Cragg, CarysSummary:
The author writes of her experiences corresponding with and ultimately meeting the man who murdered her father.
- Author:Geiger, John, Beattie, OwenSummary:
In 1719, James Knight set out with two ships and 40 men to find the north-west passage, never to be seen again. This book records the authors' search for the truth behind their disappearance, using historical clues, archaeological...
- Author:Brown, Yvonne ShorterSummary:
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up...
- Author:Barris, TedSummary:
Between 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
Quiet pleasant communities, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem. From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and...
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
Best-selling chronicler of the gold rush Bill Gallaher now brings us the compelling story of the Rennie brothers. Lured by dreams of wealth and a better life, William, Gilbert and Thomas Rennie set out for the Cariboo goldfields in the...
- Author:Carbin, Clifton F.Summary:
Dr. Carbin describes Deaf Heritage in Canada as "a window through which we can catch a glimpse of deaf Canadians as they go about their everyday lives, responding to events around them and making a difference in the future of their...
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