Histoire
Around the World in a Dugout Canoe
In 1901, Captain Voss set out seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel to circumnavigate the globe. In this groundbreaking work the authors sift fact from fiction, critically examining ...
Saltwater Classics from the Island of Newfoundland
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. ...
Distorted Descent
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the 21st century: otherwise white, French-descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This ...
Women's Writing in Canada
Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores ...
The Man Who Lived with a Giant
The Man Who Lived with a Giant presents traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a respected Dene storyteller and Elder from Déline, Northwest Territories. Johnny Neyelle used storytelling ...
Shaped by Silence
The powerful stories of five survivors from Canada, Australia, and Ireland whose lives where shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order ...
A Forgotten Hero
In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating ...
Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia, The
Chronologically arranged and rich with photographs, this work by historian Jenny Clayton paints a vivid picture of the lives of BC’s first 29 Lieutenant Governors, offering a unique perspective on the ...
The Nature of Canada
These beautifully crafted essays will delight and provoke in their exploration of how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing ...
Iroquois in the West
Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montréal, ...