It's 1773 and twelve-year-old Dougal Cameron and his whole family are set to sail away from their Scotland home forever. When tragedy strikes, the family must decide whether or not to make the trip without Dougal's father. Once the ship...
Emigration and immigration
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Author:Faires, Nora, Smith, David R., Widdis, Randy W., Bukowczyk, John J.Summary:From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has been shaped by the people, goods, and capital crossing and...
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Author:Zeiss, Joyce BurnsSummary:After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous...
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Author:Hearn, Emily, Milne, MarywinnSummary:From the diverse cultures of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Guyana, Somalia, and others, immigrant children write of the fear, the excitement and challenge of moving to another country and forging a new sense of self in a new land.
- Author:Ishiguro, LauraSummary:
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into...
- Author:Benlabed, SalahSummary:
Menacé de mort, un reporter doit quitter son pays livré à la terreur et se retrouve seul avec sa fille à Montréal. Notes d’une musique ancienne est le journal de l’aventure, peu ordinaire mais si fréquente, de ce déplacé qui redécouvre...
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Author:Wallace, Sarah IsabelSummary:In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, Not Fit to Stay reveals that public...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary:Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
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Author:Foon, Dennis, Youssef, MarcusSummary:Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition. In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where he is forced to grapple with...
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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson,...
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Author:Sowell, ThomasSummary:Thomas Sowell goes beyond the political view of immigration and presents the whole phenomena of migration and immigration and the major role it plays in the general advancement of the human race.
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A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration, from a National Book Award finalist After Saya's mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother's warm greeting on...
- Author:Hughes, SusanSummary:
People from every single country in the world call Canada home. From the very first arrivals as long as 30,000 years ago - the ancestors of Canadas Aboriginal peoples - right up until today, people have settled in this country to build...
- Author:Luiselli, ValeriaSummary:
From the two-time NBCC finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the Southwestern border -- an indelible journey told with...
- Author:Shrodes, Amy ClariceSummary:
When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can't bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry him with them from Iraq to Greece, keeping their secret passenger hidden away. But during the crowded...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770-1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and witness to the French Revolution, he dedicated...
- Author:Diome, FatouSummary:
Salie vit en France, son frère, Madické, rêve de l'y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l'immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une Terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où...
- Author:Dumitrescu, AlinaSummary:
Dans son village de la République socialiste de Roumanie, une petite fille recueille soigneusement les cadavres d’insectes. Les ruches qui cernent la maison rebutent les agents de la police secrète, qui espacent leurs visites. Ici, la...
- Author:Zia, HelenSummary:
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
“A true page-turner...
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