Scamper and the Airplane Thief
When a student at the flight school runs away with the little Luscombe 8f for a joyride, it is up to the small training plane to show courage, determination, and quick thinking to save the day. In Scamper and the Airplane Thief, our small seaplane will introduce the reader to flight’s dos and don’ts through the pilot’s actions. Learn the basi …
Quebec in the Mid-Sixties
In 1963, Jean-Louis Anctil purchases a Nikkorex 35 and begins taking slide photos of his environment in Quebec City’s Upper Town. He goes on to take thousands of images that are not only a family archive but also a small-scale representation of Quebec’s modernization and the Quiet Revolution. Born in 1923, he enlists in the RCAF at a young age …
Julia
The extraordinary life of Julia Henshaw. A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her eventful life from Montreal to Vancouver, from Banff to London, and from the mining towns of BC’s Kootenays to the battlefields o …
A Short History of Manitoba
This book focuses on the province of Manitoba and concisely outlines exploration and the fur trade, the settlers, the Métis, the First Nations, the problems they faced and their influence on this region of Canada. Explanations of early economic and political developments include the struggle over borders, railways, tariffs, and schools. It delves …
Toshiko
Wartime, 1944, in the British Columbia Interior – a farm boy becomes curious about the predicament of two Japanese-Canadian teenagers marooned on a nearby farm with their families, unable to live in their former homes on the coast. His friendship with the girl, Toshiko, blossoms into a kind of Romeo-and-Juliet romance, then a scandal. Thrown out …