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We Share Our Matters

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging ...

Kinds of Winter

“Dave Olesen’s four midwinter dogsled journeys project struck me as a wonderfully sane choice of place and self-exploration, reminding me of how Thoreau walked many days across thickets and swamps ...

Time Will Say Nothing

By (author) Ramin Jahanbegloo
Categories: Memoirs
Series: The Regina Collection

Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison ...

The Elusive Mr. Pond

By (author) Barry Gough
Categories: History of the Americas

Sir Alexander Mackenzie is known to schoolchildren as a great Canadian explorer who gave his name to the country’s longest river, but hardly anyone could name the man who mentored Mackenzie and mapped ...

The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook

In The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, master engraver George A. Walker provides a new perspective on a man whose words have captivated generations.

Walker’s latest wordless narrative presents a suite ...

Compulsive Acts

Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely ...

The L.M. Montgomery Reader

Following on the heels of the first volume of The L. M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L. M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since ...

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye

By (author) B.W. Powe
Categories: Biography: writers

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. ...

Travels by Night

By (author) George Fetherling
Categories: Biography: writers

Travels by Night, long a national bestseller, is George Fetherling’s account of surmounting every obstacle as a despised minority to become a fixture in Canadian culture. A book with a broad cast of ...

Devil in Deerskins

By (author) Anahareo
Afterword by Sophie McCall
Categories: Biography: general
Series: First Voices, First Texts

Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of ...