When plain, outspoken Yorkshire schoolgirl Marjory Thompson immigrates with her rambunctious family to Canada in 1904, her parents are convinced that fortune awaits in the flat farmland of Manitoba. Before long, the impatient Marjory...
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Author:Boyes, AmySummary: - Author:Blanchard, JimSummary:
From the local bestselling author of Winnipeg 1912 comes the riveting next chapter in the city's history. Winnipeg's Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. War comes unexpectedly,...
- Author:Barbour, DaleSummary:
During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Nous sommes au début des années 1980. Mahatma Grafton vient de décrocher un emploi dans un quotidien de Winnipeg. C’est son premier poste. Avant même son arrivée, les journalistes s’amusent à deviner d’où il peut bien venir… On parie...
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Author:Oertel, AndreasSummary:In the thrilling third instalment in the popular Shenanigans series, Cody, Eric, and Rachel are back in the present after their time-travelling adventure and ready to return to their boring lives in the sleepy town of Sultana, Manitoba...
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Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary:In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Métis...
- Author:Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the most fascinating events and...
- Author:Gaboury, ÉtienneSummary:
The St. Boniface Cathedral coffee table book, part of the Manitoba CountryScapes series, chronicles the history of St. Boniface’s six churches and cathedrals since the Mission was founded in 1818. Award-winning photographer Michel (Mike...
- Author:Leveille, J. R.Summary:
Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in an art gallery she meets Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. He will change Angèle's life and her way of looking at the world forever.
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: - Author:Paskievich, John, Osborne, Stephen, Melnyk, George, Gillmor, AlisonSummary:
Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged. First built when...
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Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was...
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Author:Beiko, S. M.Summary:Wishing for something out of Alice in Wonderland, something beyond her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash is counting down the days until she and her mother move away from their prairie hometown of Treade. It’s Ash’s summer of...
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Author:Esrock, RobinSummary:On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting...
- Author:Mortensen, Gerd Kjustad, Mortensen, Einar OddSummary:
The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.'s personal narrative detailing the years (1925-1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade....
- Author:Hoffman, WayneSummary:
In this biography, Wayne Hoffman meticulously researches the century-old murder of his great-grandmother, while facing another tragedy much closer to home: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's.
- Author:Werner, HansSummary:
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner...
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Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families... -
Author:Horne, ConstanceSummary:Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an...
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