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Indian Ernie

Indian Ernie

Perspectives on Policing and Leadership by Ernie Louttit
by Ernie Louttit
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When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also tremendous change in urban policing which included the Stonechild Inquiry. Drawing from his childhood, army career, a …

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Itsuka

Itsuka

by Joy Kogawa
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''What is for you the breath of life?'' Someday—itsuka—Naomi Nakane will answer this question. In Obasan, Naomi's childhood was torn apart by Canada's betrayal of Japanese Canadian citizens during the 1940s. Now, years later, Naomi's scars have left her fragile and uncertain. Quietly teaching school on the prairies, she watches as her family sl …

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Gold, Grit, Guns

Gold, Grit, Guns

Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858
by Alexander Globe
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tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867)

The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand.

"An extraordinary book." - The Tyee

Only four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners' actual words providing an engaging authenticity and bringing the miners' distinc …

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O Canada Crosswords Book 22

O Canada Crosswords Book 22

by Gwen Sjogren
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age: 1 to 13
Grade: p to 8
tagged : puzzles, trivia

Over 250,000 O Canada Crosswords books sold in twenty years!

O Canada Crosswords rides again with the twenty-second instalment of this popular series, which features large-sized puzzles split between Canadian and other themes. With over 20 per cent of the clues focusing on Canadiana, you’ll be chomping at the bit as author Gwen Sjogren harnesses h …

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Hockey with Dad

Hockey with Dad

by Willie Sellars, illustrated by Kevin Easthope
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tagged : native canadian, siblings, hockey

She shoots, she scores! Big Sister's hockey team has worked hard toward the most important game of the season. When the team goalie gets sick, Little Brother excitedly steps onto the ice to play in the Championship game. He always wanted to be part of the lineup, where Big Sister is the ace forward. The closer the game gets, the more nervous he bec …

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Heroines Revisited

Heroines Revisited

Photographs by Lincoln Clarkes
by (photographer) Lincoln Clarkes
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Heroines Revisited is a large format follow-up volume to the original Heroines: Photographs by Lincoln Clarkes that was released by Anvil in 2002. This new edition features over 150 portraits accompanied by three new critical essays that contextualize the five-year photo project and the controversial body of work.

The Heroines Project is an epic pho …

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The York Factory Express

The York Factory Express

by Nancy Marguerite Anderson
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Every March between 1826 and 1854, the York Factory Express began its journey from the Hudson's Bay Company's headquarters on the Pacific Ocean, where the express-men paddled their boats up the Columbia River to the base of the Rocky Mountains at Boat Encampment, a thousand miles to the east. At Jasper's House they were 3,000 feet above sea level. …

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Joseph William McKay

Joseph William McKay

A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia
by Greg N. Fraser
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tagged : native americans, post-confederation (1867-), pre-confederation (to 1867)

Finalist, 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing

An intriguing look at the accomplishments and contradictions of Joseph William McKay, best known as the founder of Nanaimo, BC, and one of the most successful Métis men to rise through the ranks of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late nineteenth century.

When examining the history …

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St. Michael's Residential School

St. Michael's Residential School

Lament and Legacy
by Nancy Dyson, with Dan Rubenstein
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One of the few accounts by care-givers in an Indian Residential School describing the horrific conditions. Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein In 1970, the authors, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein, were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (formerly St. Michael's Indian Residential School) on northern Vancouver Island. Shocked wh …

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Green Glass Ghosts

Green Glass Ghosts

by Rae Spoon, illustrated by Gem Hall
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age: 14 to 18
Grade: 9 to 12
tagged : lgbt, self-esteem & self-reliance, coming of age

From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own.

At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy l …

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The Street Belongs to Us

The Street Belongs to Us

by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez
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age: 8 to 12
Grade: 3 to 7
tagged : hispanic & latino, prejudice & racism, lgbt, self-esteem & self-reliance

A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild.

In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her hair short and her older brother's hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a troubled kid who's been wearing the same soldier's uniform ever since his mom died. T …

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Travesia

Travesia

A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante
by Michelle Gerster, illustrated by Fiona Dunnett
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 7 to 12
tagged : girls & women, nonfiction, emigration & immigration, history

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border.

This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. T …

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Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions
by Alex Wood
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tagged : addiction, personal memoirs, relationships

A wildly disarming memoir by comedian Alex Wood on how he overcame his multiple addictions.

As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and drunk. At the age of twenty-eight, feeling desperate in the face of a …

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Lost in Barkerville

Lost in Barkerville

by Bitten Acherman
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Grade: 4 to 9
tagged : survival stories

A young reader time-travel novel about life in the gold rush town of Barkerville in the Cariboo in 1862. This young reader novel begins with a high school field trip to the former gold rush town of Yale in British Columbia. Here Zach, Kyle, and their eccentric teacher, Miss Reid, are transported back in time to 1866 at the height of the Cariboo gol …

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Our Work Is Everywhere

Our Work Is Everywhere

An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
by Syan Rose, foreword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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tagged : contemporary women, lesbian studies, gay & lesbian

A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance.

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines …

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The Girl of Newgate Prison

The Girl of Newgate Prison

by David Starr
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A young reader novel about Libby, who is thrown into Newgate Prison in the early years of the 19th century and is sentenced to hang. In this young reader novel set at the beginning of the 19th century, Libby is placed in chains and transported to London's notorious Newgate Prison after which, in a show trial, she is found guilty of helping her brot …

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How to Fail as a Popstar

How to Fail as a Popstar

by Vivek Shraya, foreword by Brendan Healy
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tagged : canadian, gay & lesbian

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's deb …

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Iron Goddess of Mercy

Iron Goddess of Mercy

by Larissa Lai
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Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-d …

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nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

by Tenille K. Campbell
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Indigenous Voices Award finalist

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.

nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to ot …

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Translating the Occupation

Translating the Occupation

The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45
edited by Jonathan Henshaw; Craig A. Smith & Norman Smith
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From 1931 to 1945, Chinese citizens were subjugated to Japanese imperialism. Despite the enduring historical importance of the occupation, Translating the Occupation is the first English-language volume to provide such a diverse selection of important primary sources from this period. Contributors have translated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts …

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Les Faux Bourgeois

Les Faux Bourgeois

by Andreas Seppelt
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Les Faux Bourgeois Bistro is an award-winning French bistro situated at the awkward intersection of Kingsway and Fraser Street&nbspin an equally disjointed neighbourhood&nbspin East Vancouver. Founded in 2007, Les Faux Bourgeois soon became a beacon of French bistro "amor" and garnered a loyal clientele and critical acclaim to match.

Selected by the …

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Tolstoy's Words To Live By

Tolstoy's Words To Live By

Sequel to A Calendar of Wisdom
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Peter Sekirin, edited by Alan Twigg
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Here is Leo Tolstoy's first book of "Daily Thoughts," never before translated into English, compiled by Tolstoy in 1906 to share inspiring quotes from more than forty philosophers for each day of the year. Aphorisms and ideas collected by Tolstoy in his other volumes have affected the lives of millions. Among those who were profoundly influenced by …

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Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence

Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence

The Canadian Case
edited by David Lyon & David Murakami Wood
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tagged : privacy & surveillance), security (national & international)

Intelligence gathering is in a state of flux. Enabled by massive computing power, new modes of communications analysis now touch the lives of citizens around the globe – not just those considered suspicious or threatening. Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence reveals the profound shift to “big data” practices that security agencies …

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Angel Wing Splash Pattern

Angel Wing Splash Pattern

20th Anniversary Edition
by Richard van Camp
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tagged : native american & aboriginal, short stories (single author), literary

With this special 20th Anniversary edition, Richard Van Camp re-releases his first bestselling collection of short stories. There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. This collection of hilarious and profound stories is w …

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The Theatre of Regret

The Theatre of Regret

Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada
by David Gaertner
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The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? The Theatre of Regret asks whether reconciliation politics will ultimately favour the state’s goals over those of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature and art throughout …

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Uplift

Uplift

Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
by PearlAnn Reichwein & Karen Wall
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), environmental & land art, canadian, contemporary (1945-), prairie provinces (ab, mb, sk)

In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination. Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of culture and liberal democr …

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A Complex Exile

A Complex Exile

Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada
by Erin Dej
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Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. But lack of housing security is just one barrier faced by people who are homeless. As A Complex Exile shows, the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces social exclusion as well. The very policies, practices, and funding models that exist to …

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Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark

by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
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A collection of poetry by a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holocaust all her life. The first section describes the evils of suffering and prejudice, of war and destruction, and the loss of loved ones, even t …

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The Justice Crisis

The Justice Crisis

The Cost and Value of Accessing Law
edited by Trevor Farrow & Lesley Jacobs
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Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the ext …

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A Bounded Land

A Bounded Land

Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada
by R. Cole Harris
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Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he expose …

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The Justice Crisis

The Justice Crisis

The Cost and Value of Accessing Law
edited by Trevor C.W. Farrow & Lesley A. Jacobs
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Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the ext …

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Captain Cook Rediscovered

Captain Cook Rediscovered

Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
by David L. Nicandri
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Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accompl …

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A Bounded Land

A Bounded Land

Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada
by Cole Harris
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Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he expose …

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Queen of the Maple Leaf

Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
by Patrizia Gentile
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As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, f …

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War Junk

War Junk

Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada
by Alex Souchen
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During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles, and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. However, the end of hostilities in 1945 turned the leftover assets into peacetime liabilities. Alex Souchen provides a definitive a …

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Canadian Foreign Policy

Canadian Foreign Policy

Reflections on a Field in Transition
edited by Brian Bow & Andrea Lane
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Canadian Foreign Policy, as an academic discipline, is in crisis. Despite its value, CFP is often considered a “stale and pale” subfield of political science with an unfashionably state-centred focus. This book asks why. Contributors from both inside and around the field investigate how they came to view themselves as participating in CFP as an …

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The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent

The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent

Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada
edited by Patrice Dutil
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Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in d …

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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
by Sarah Carter
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Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists – from Nellie McClung and Cora Hind to Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards – lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, the region that led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office.

 

In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, award-winning author Sarah Carter challenges the my …

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Making the Best of It

Making the Best of It

Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War
edited by Sarah Glassford & Amy J. Shaw
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Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders …

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