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This is Serious

Edited by Joe Ollmann & Alana Traficante
Categories: History of art

THIS IS SERIOUS reveals the considerable contributions artists from across the country are making to the greater field of global comics - of which Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton are significant creative ...

Saltwater Classics from the Island of Newfoundland

By (author) Christine LeGrow & Shirley Scott
Categories: Knitting
Series: Saltwater Knits

Saltwater Classics will keep you toasty warm with beautiful hand-knitted hats, mitts, gloves, socks, and vamps. In this follow-up to the best-selling Saltwater Mittens, Christine LeGrow and Shirley A. ...

On the Curve

By (author) Janet Nicol
By (artist) Sybil Andrews
Categories: Individual artists, art monographs

Raised in Bury St Edmunds, England, Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. This fully illustrated biography focuses on Andrews’ artistic ...

Perception

By (author) KC Adams
Foreword by Katherena Vermette
Other primary creator Cathy Mattes
Categories: Photographs: collections

Social action art in book form, Perception: A Photo Series encourages readers to look and then look again.
Artist KC Adams’ Perception Photo Series first appeared on billboards, in storefronts, in ...

Villages in Cities

As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited. Meanwhile, community land ownership has the potential to turn the tide and ...

Les résistants du jazz

By (author) Serge Truffaut
Categories: Music: styles and genres

Des musiciens et des musiciennes de jazz de la catégorie des mi-moyens (Red Garland, Elvin Jones, Lester Bowie, Julius Hemphill, etc. ), pour reprendre le qualificatif du célèbre critique Leonard Feather, ...

Iron Road West

British Columbia wouldn’t exist without the railway; the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. It was ...

The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

By (author) Guy St-Denis
Categories: History of art

Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. ...

Dirty Plotte

An enduring collection of revolutionary comics from a genre-transforming and critically acclaimed cartoonist
Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series ...

Album Rock

Album Rock is the account of writer Matthew Hollett’s research and road trip to isolated Ship Cove, on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula to solve a mystery—the source of a captivating photograph. ...