In these Red Cross memoirs, thirty women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with...
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- Author:Day, Francis Martin, Spence, Phyllis, Ladouceur, BarbaraSummary:
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"From diversity comes strength and wisdom": this was the guiding principle for selecting the articles in this collection. Because there is no single voice, identity, history, or cultural experience that represents the women of...
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This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their...
- Author:Simpson, AndrewSummary:
Along with the internationally acclaimed and award-winning documentary film upon which this book is based, Wolves Unleashed takes the reader on an amazing journey that looks closely at Andrew Simpson’s relationship with one of nature’s...
- Author:Wolfe, BeatriceSummary:
The topics of addictions, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation are best understood through a personal story. Understanding how it happens in our own communities regardless of race, gender or religious background is helpful for...
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Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With...
- Author:Williams, David R.Summary:
Beginning with the 1868 shooting of politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Williams chronologically examines the trials of Louis Riel in 1885, Ernest Chenoweth in 1900, Wilbert Coffin in 1953, Steven Truscott in 1959, and Peter Demeter in 1974...
- Author:Wilson, GretchenSummary:
Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding went with her. One day, from the top...
- Author:O'Neill, Heather, Dobson, KitSummary:
I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’...
- Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:
Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award. This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the...
- Author:Phillips, RodSummary:
Overwhelmed when you walk into the local wine store? Just trying to find that special gift for that special occasion? Looking for the perfect pairing for tonight's dinner? Or are you just tired of the same ol' same ol'?...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: the rights and duties around wills vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact NNELS...
- Author:Mortillaro, NicoleSummary:
Documents the life of Willie O'Ree, the first Black player to skate in the NHL.
- Author:Cardinal, CliffSummary:
Is it possible for As You Like It to please all tastes? Indigenous creator and cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal seeks to find out.
- Author:Knowles, ValerieSummary:
William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Based on the story by Iskwé and Erin Leslie May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world...
- Author:SINCLAIR, GordonSummary:
There isn't a Canadian in the last fifty years who hasn't heard or heard of Gordon Sinclair. His is one of the longest, most remarkable careers ever enjoyed by a Canadian newsperson - in newspapers and magazines, on radio and...
- Author:Wilson, Ian, Wilson, SallySummary:
For one year, Ian and Sally Wilson travelled 3,000 kilometres by canoe and dog team, following the trading routes of Canada's voyageurs. In this book, they combine the lively account of their wilderness journey with fascinating stories...
- Author:Harrison, MikeSummary:
When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is...
- Author:Reid, PatrickSummary:
Through the mud and the blood with the North Irish Horse during World War II to the genteel parlours of international diplomacy, Patrick Reid served his nation. As a Military Police commander in the steamy jungles of postwar Malaya or...