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...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Backhouse, ConstanceSummary: - 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...
- Author:Knight, CheleneSummary:
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her...
- Author:Englander, AnrenéeSummary:
In poignant and insightful interviews, Anrenée Englander presents the voices of ten pregnant teens as they discuss their experiences and choices around motherhood, adoption, and abortion. First published to critical acclaim in 1997,...
- Author:Wong, TeresaSummary:
In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the...
- Author:Humber, FredSummary:
Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The...
- Author:Brode, PatrickSummary:
A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto’s prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city’s most prominent families. This...
- Author:Karram, KerrySummary:
A harrowing tale of human intelligence pitted against the forces of nature. With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain...
- Author:Wells, JonSummary:
Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice. “Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic...
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