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The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced ...

Committing Theatre

By (author) Alan Filewod
Categories: Theatre studies

Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association of Theatre Research. Finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures

Committing Theatre offers ...

First in Canada

By (author) Jonathan Anuik
Categories: History of art
Series: TBS

Jonathan Anuik, PhD, is a scholar of Aboriginal education, children?s rights and legal status in historical and contemporary Canada, lifelong learning, and Métis history. Originally from Saskatchewan, ...

George McLean

For more than forty years, George McLean has lived in a stone farmhouse on 100 acres of land in Grey County, Ontario. On his daily walks, he looks for a moment that will inspire him — the first step ...

DanceHall

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall ...

Nunavik, Québec inconnu

Nunavik – Québec inconnu est un album de photographies aériennes sur la région la plus septentrionale du Québec, le Nunavik. L’aviateur et photographe Mario Faubert nous propose un point de vue ...

Harvest Pilgrims

Like migratory birds, most of Canada's 20,000 'guest' farm workers arrive in the spring and leave in the autumn. Hailing primarily from Mexico, Jamaica, and smaller countries of the Caribbean, these temporary ...

Ordinary Things

By (author) Christopher Pratt
Categories: Memoirs

Insightful and thought-provoking journal entries, from the 1950s to 2007, on the creative process, art, life, and province of renowned Canadian artist Christopher Pratt. Ordinary Things is laced with ...

The Practice of Her Profession

Susan Butlin holds a doctorate from Carleton University where she has taught art history.

Honouring Tradition

By (author) Glenbow Museum
Categories: History of art

To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue ...