Policing the Wild North-west analyzes the effects of social phenomena—from political radicals and vagrants to prohibition bootleggers and black market profiteers—on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan. These factors placed...
Saskatchewan
- Author:Lin, ZhiqiuSummary:
- Author:Miller, David Reed, Tanner, Tracey, Martin-McGuire, Peggy, Tanner, James N.Summary:
"Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega' Kínna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive...
- Author:Ehman, Amy JoSummary:
Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens is the story of people and the food they prepared. With more than 50 photos, it is a window into life as it was then. If you want to know what life was really like in early Saskatchewan, come to the...
- Author:McLennan, DavidSummary:
This is a guided tour of 725 Saskatchewan communities, based on the author's extensive travel throughout the province. The entry for each community includes its history, origin of its name, origins of the original settlers and its...
- Author:Sinclair, Eleanor A.Summary:
Eleanor Sinclair opens the yellowed pages of her daily diaries and revisits the three years she spent training at the Holy Family Hospital School of Nursing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in the 1950s.
- Author:Carriere, KenSummary:
A first-hand account of a Swampy Cree boy's experiences growing up in the Saskatchewan River Delta, one of the world's largest inland deltas and one of North America's most important ecosystems. Depicting an Indigenous lifestyle that...
- Author:Endicott, MarinaSummary:
Bessie Smith Connolly has lived with her Nova Scotia grandparents since she was small. But at seventeen'grieving the death of her steadfast grandfather, smarting from a split with the boy she loves'she escapes to Saskatoon to be with...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
Tout est là : voici la vie sur la réserve, en haute définition. Dawn, la narratrice, revisite sa vie familiale, se replonge dans ses années d'école et s'engage résolument sur la voie de l'avenir. Situé quelque part entre le roman d'...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting adults in retirement may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact...
- Author:Dueck, AdeleSummary:
When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famine, and terror.
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of...
- Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:
Retired Police Sergeant Ernie Louttit takes you back to the streets of Saskatoon in his second book, a street cop's view of the realities of dealing with prostitutes, street gangs, drunk drivers, and other offenders. He gives people who...
- Author:Dunlop Art GallerySummary:
An exhibition catalogue for a group show of the same name.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Sask., Oct. 23, 2009 to Jan. 3, 2010, featuring art by 30 contemporary Saskatchewan artists and writing...
- Author:Young, BerylSummary:
A powerful and poignant story of two young girls' friendship, family, loss, and loyalty, set in 1940s Saskatchewan. "Beryl Young's novel Miles to Go is sparse, poetic and, at times, perfectly heart wrenching. It subtly captures the...
- Author:Fitzpatrick Dorion, Betty, Farrell Racette,SherrySummary:
The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life...
- Author:Harris, FrannSummary:
When a child-abuse scandal is uncovered at an unlicenced daycare in small-town Saskatchewan, it polarizes the community. Frann Harris, a rookie court reporter assigned to the trial the longest in Saskatchewan history starts to wonder if...
- Author:Caron, Ken, Caron, AngelaSummary:
Manny's Memories, by author Ken Caron with his daughter Angela Caron, introduces us to the Métis community of Round Prairie, Saskatchewan through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the 1940s. Manny shares his boyhood memories of the...
- Author:Dyck, Erika, Deighton, Alex, Lafave, Hugh, Elias, John, Gerber, Gary, Dyck, Alexander, Mills, John, Mitchell, TraceySummary:
The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of...
- Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:
A biography of an early Saskatchewan potter, who immigrated to Saskatchewan in 1905 as an accomplished potter.
- Author:Driedger, MaryLouSummary:
Set between Kansas and Saskatchewan in 1907, this middle-grade novel follows a young boy who gets separated from his family en route to Canada and must find his way alone across the immense prairie landscape. Following the sudden death...