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Rooster Town

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. ...

Potlatch as Pedagogy

In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed ...

Viola Desmond

Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested ...

The Hotel

By (author) Robert A. Davidson
Categories: Urban communities

The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy. ” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, ...

Northern Wildflower

This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun.

Northern Wildflower is the beautifully ...

Unleash Different

Unleash Different illustrates how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Rich gives the reader a peek into how he rose from ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

Amma’s Daughters

As a young woman, Amma joined forces with revolutionary freedom fighters that worked in the Mahatma Gandhi–led Civil Disobedience movement. She was connected with a vast network of women whose courage ...

Queering Urban Justice

 

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of ...

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory uniquely retells pivotal historical events that have been conventionally unchallenged in dominant historical narratives while presenting a fascinating personal ...