The generation to which Joe and Josephine Crowshoe belonged spanned more than the length of their lifetimes. That generation fought heroically in world wars and at the same time raised children under a paternalistic federal regime that...
Oral history
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Author:Crowshoe, JoeSummary: -
Author:Pelly, David F.Summary:The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in...
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Author:Portelli, AlessandroSummary: - Author:Armitage, DoreenSummary:
The author captures the voices of Coast Guard Skippers, coast pilots, commercial fishermen and divers, tugboaters and deep-sea drillers. Fishermen recall the pandemonium of a fishery opening. A former Coast Guard captain tells a heart-...
- Author:Antane Kapesh, AnSummary:
Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? Tanite nene etutamin nitass? Écrit par An Antane Kapesh Édité et préfacé par Naomi Fontaine Traduit par José Mailhot Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays ? Comprendre l'histoire coloniale Résumé Après Je...
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Author:Soggie, JoanSummary:Gabby Mackenzie knows little and cares less about prairie people or their history. She sees her assignment to interview a hundred-year-old settler as nothing more than a bump in her hazy career path. But as she gets to know old Mr....
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Author:High, StevenSummary:Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral...
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Author:University of Calgary PressSummary:For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit...
- Author:Taylor, CraigSummary:
A collection of interviews with contemporary Londoners from all parts of the city and all walks of life.
- Author:Anderson, Kim, Campbell, MariaSummary:
A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the...
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Author:Ryan, ShannonSummary:The Last of the Ice Hunters is a history of the seal hunt, an industry now in decline, but one which provided the few opportunities for employment to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians during the 1930s. Written in the words of...
- Author:Barber, Marilyn, Watson, MurraySummary:
Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born...
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Author:Miller, Elizabeth, Little, Edward, High, StevenSummary:Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple...
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Author:High, StevenSummary:Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. The contributors to Beyond Testimony and Trauma consider other...
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Author:Riordon, MichaelSummary:An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions. Michael Riordon has...
