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Author: Marchildon, DanielSummary:Toronto, septembre 1916. Napoléon Bouvier, un jeune boxeur franco-ontarien, quitte le ring pour joindre les rangs de l’armée britannique en Europe. Il reviendra du front tourmenté par des...
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Author: Wilcox, Alana; McBride, JasonSummary:Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:2016 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-Fiction — Winner David Milne is one of Canada’s finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it...
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Author: Micallef, Shawn; Zuber, Marlena; Zuber, MarlenaSummary:What is the 'Toronto look'? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural...
Genre: Guidebooks, Travel writing -
Author: Shardlow, TomSummary:David Thompsons story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of...
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Author: Brundage, David; Lindberg, TraceySummary:This collection is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Indigenous writer Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights...
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Author: Burstyn, HelenSummary:Visionary social entrepreneur David Pecaut’s life demonstrates how to make a positive impact on a community. City builder David Pecaut has been called a visionary and a pragmatist, passionate and...
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Author: McLean, Maud J.; Stamp, Robert M.Summary:The private and public lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout Edgar symbolized the increasingly complex nature of Toronto society as older generations gradually gave way to a new generation...
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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 "...
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Author: Reeves, Wayne; Palassio, ChristinaSummary:Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto’s water and...
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Author: Lorinc, John; McClelland, Michael; Scheinberg, Ellen; Taylor, TatumSummary:The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.' From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Italian...
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Author: Malleson, Tom; Wachsmuth, DavidSummary:In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Paulin, Marguerite; Alleyn, Nora; Shardlow, Tom; Kirk, Heather; Cimon, Anne; Vanasse, AndréSummary:Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential Quebec Premier Maurice...
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Author: Poulsen, David A.Summary:Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen "handles heavy material with sophistication" (Publishers Weekly). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Young adult fiction