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Gold, Grit, Guns

Gold, Grit, Guns

Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858
by Alexander Globe
edition:Paperback
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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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Guide to Indigenous Herbs

Guide to Indigenous Herbs

of North America
by Ray Stark
edition:Paperback
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tagged : native american studies, herbs, native american

Before European immigration to North America and for some time afterwards, the Indigenous peoples maintained an extensive stock of herbal medicines that they gathered from the forests, plains and mountains of their environment. This well-illustrated handbook describes 52 of the best-known herbs used by the First Peoples of North America. Each plant …

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Northwest Indigenous Arts: Creative Colors 1

Northwest Indigenous Arts: Creative Colors 1

by Robert E. Stanley Sr.
edition:Paperback
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tagged : native american studies, techniques, native american

Northwest Indigenous Arts: Creative Colors 1 i the first in the Northwest Indigenous Arts Series and is a compelling exploration of the rich artistic traditions of the Northwest Indigenous communities. Authored by Robert E. Stanley Sr., this coloring book serves as both an educational tool and a creative outlet, featuring 27 templates and line draw …

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Northwest Indigenous Arts: Basic Forms

Northwest Indigenous Arts: Basic Forms

by Robert E. Stanley Sr.
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Northwest Indigenous Arts: Basic Forms by Robert E. Stanley Sr. is a distinctive instructional guide that opens a window to the traditional art forms of the Northwest Indigenous peoples. This book, infused with over 80 instructional drawings, invites readers to embark on a journey of learning and creativity, offering step-by-step guidance to master …

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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
edition:Paperback
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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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Following the Good River

Following the Good River

The Life and Times of Wa'xaid
by Briony Penn, with Cecil Paul
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tagged : environmentalists & naturalists, native american studies, native americans

Based on recorded interviews and journal entries this major biography of Cecil Paul (Wa’xaid) is a resounding and timely saga featuring the trials, tribulations, endurance, forgiveness, and survival of one of North American’s more prominent Indigenous leaders.

Born in 1931 in the Kitlope, Cecil Paul, also known by his Xenaksiala name, Wa’xaid, …

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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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tagged : indigenous studies, canadian

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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Captain Cook Rediscovered

Captain Cook Rediscovered

Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
by David L. Nicandri
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tagged : expeditions & discoveries, meteorology & climatology

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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Queen of the Maple Leaf

Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
by Patrizia Gentile
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tagged : women's studies, discrimination & race relations, post-confederation (1867-), race & ethnic relations

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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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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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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tagged : women, post-confederation (1867-), women's studies, canadian, women in politics

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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tagged : world war ii, women's studies, post-confederation (1867-), atlantic provinces (nb, nl, ns, pe)

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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Digital Lives in the Global City

Digital Lives in the Global City

Contesting Infrastructures
edited by Deborah Cowen; Alexis Mitchell; Emily Paradis & Brett Story
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tagged : human geography, media studies, social aspects, globalization

Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and …

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No Place for the State

No Place for the State

The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill
edited by Christopher Dummitt & Christabelle Sethna
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“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspect …

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Changing Neighbourhoods

Changing Neighbourhoods

Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities
edited by Jill Grant; Alan Walks & Howard Ramos
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In recent decades growing inequality and polarization have been reshaping the social landscape of Canada’s metropolitan areas, changing neighbourhoods and negatively affecting the lived realities of increasingly diverse urban populations. This book examines the dimensions and impacts of increased economic inequality and urban socio-spatial polari …

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Canada and Ireland

Canada and Ireland

A Political and Diplomatic History
by Philip J. Currie
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tagged : history & theory, diplomacy, ireland

Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s to the present day. Yet scholars have largely neglected Canadian–Irish relations since the consolidation of the Irish Free State in the 1920s. In Canada and Ireland, Philip J. Currie addresses this lacuna and examines political re …

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Hockey Night in Kenya

Hockey Night in Kenya

by Danson Mutinda & Eric Walters, illustrated by Claudia Dávila
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age: 6 to 8
Grade: 1 to 3
Reading age: 6 to 8
tagged : hockey, friendship, orphans & foster homes

“This simple story of discovery, sport, and friendship is filled with likable characters and innocently joyful moments...Delightful.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, spend their days studying, playing soccer, helping their elders with chores around the orphanage and reading from the limited selection of boo …

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A Better Justice?

A Better Justice?

Community Programs for Criminalized Women
by Amanda Nelund
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tagged : criminology, women's studies, gender & the law

Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment, they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.

 

This book brings th …

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Transforming the Canadian History Classroom

Transforming the Canadian History Classroom

Imagining a New "We"
by Samantha Cutrara
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tagged : history, multicultural education, inclusive education

We are all our history. Yet despite curricular revisions, the mainstream historical narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive, separating “us” from “them.”

 

Responding to the evolving demographics of an ethnically and culturally heterogeneous population, Transforming the Canadian History Class …

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Like a Boy but Not a Boy

Like a Boy but Not a Boy

Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary
by andrea bennett
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A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body.

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a …

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Takaya

Takaya

Lone Wolf
by Cheryl Alexander, foreword by Carl Safina
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tagged : wolves, plants & animals, environmental conservation & protection

An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer.

A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia’s Salish Sea, surrounded by freighter, oil tanker and other boat traffic and in close proximity to a large urban area. His name …

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Discovering Words: English * French * Cree — Updated Edition

Discovering Words: English * French * Cree — Updated Edition

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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age: 0 to 3
Grade: p
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

A new format for young readers transforms Neepin Auger’s bestselling board books into playful and colourful resources for elementary school children.

Neepin Auger’s colourful board books for infants have collectively sold well over 20,000 copies since they first appeared on the market. With more and more parents and educators looking for Indigen …

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Discovering People: English * French * Cree

Discovering People: English * French * Cree

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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age: 0 to 3
Grade: p
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

A new format for young readers transforms Neepin Auger’s bestselling board books into playful and colourful resources for elementary school children.

Neepin Auger’s colourful board books for infants have collectively sold well over 20,000 copies since they first appeared on the market. With more and more parents and educators looking for Indigen …

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Discovering Numbers: English * French * Cree

Discovering Numbers: English * French * Cree

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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age: 0 to 3
Grade: p
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

A new format for young readers transforms Neepin Auger’s bestselling board books into playful and colourful resources for elementary school children.

Neepin Auger’s colourful board books for infants have collectively sold well over 20,000 copies since they first appeared on the market. With more and more parents and educators looking for Indigen …

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Discovering Animals: English * French * Cree

Discovering Animals: English * French * Cree

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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age: 3 to 5
Grade: p to k
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

A new format for young readers transforms Neepin Auger’s bestselling board books into playful and colourful resources for elementary school children.

Neepin Auger’s colourful board books for infants have collectively sold well over 20,000 copies since they first appeared on the market. With more and more parents and educators looking for Indigen …

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Pia's Plans

Pia's Plans

by Alice Kuipers
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age: 9 to 12
Grade: 4 to 7
Reading age: 9 to 12
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, marriage & divorce, non-classifiable

Ever since her parents got divorced, Pia has worked hard to make sure everything in her life is Perfect, with a capital P.

But everything keeps going wrong. Pia and her sister get into a fight. She falls down the stairs and hurts her ankle. She spills chocolate milk all over her lucky outfit. She accidentally studied for the wrong test. And her best …

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The Juggling Mother

The Juggling Mother

Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety
by Amanda D. Watson
edition:Hardcover
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tagged : women's studies, feminism & feminist theory, marriage & family

Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also se …

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Orange Shirt Day Display Kit

by Orange Shirt Society
edition:Mixed media
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Orange Shirt Day Display Kit, show your support, put Orange Shirt Day on display in your community. Includes the books, Orange Shirt Day, The Orange Shirt Story and Phyllis's Orange Shirt. Also includes study guides, Orange Shirt Society T-Shirt and Pin, Poster and custom Orange Shirt Day box.

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Orange Shirt Day Study Guide

Orange Shirt Day Study Guide

by Orange Shirt Society
edition:Paperback
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age: 10 to 18
Grade: 5 to 12
tagged : materials & devices

A guide created for all ages to help teachers, business leaders and organizations further comprehend the important topics introduced in the Orange Shirt Day book. This includes how to effectively participate in Orange Shirt Day and continue to spread the message that Every Child Matters. From Kindergarten to University and beyond, this is a guide f …

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Saving the Nation through Culture

Saving the Nation through Culture

The Folklore Movement in Republican China
by Jie Gao
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The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study of folklore – popular songs, beliefs, and customs – to rally people around the flag. Saving the Nation through Culture opens a new chapter in the history of the Folklore Movem …

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Borderline

Borderline

by Marie-Sissi Labrèche, translated by Melissa Bull
edition:Paperback
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Searing and lyrical, Marie-Sissi Labrèche's auto-fictional novel, Borderline, describes a young girl's experience growing up in Montreal's working-class neighbourhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Raised by her "two mothers" - a stern grandmother and a mother struggling with schizophrenia, the story's protagonist, Sissi, is artistic, feral, fragile, i …

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Our Hearts Are as One Fire

Our Hearts Are as One Fire

An Ojibway-Anishinabe Vision for the Future
by Jerry Fontaine
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A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty. In Our Hearts Are as One Fire, Jerry Fontaine recounts the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challen …

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Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic

Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic

by Gary N. Wilson; Christopher Alcantara & Thierry Rodon
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tagged : canadian, colonialism & post-colonialism, indigenous studies

The Canadian federal system was never designed to recognize Indigenous governance, and it has resisted change. But Indigenous communities have successfully negotiated the creation of self-governing regions. Most of these are situated within existing units of the Canadian federation, creating forms of nested federalism. This governance model is tran …

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Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation
by Graham White
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Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada’s North. This book provides a detailed account of the operation and effectiveness of these boards while addressing a central question: Have they been successful …

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