Translated from personal memoirs and diaries, this is a compelling story of Anthony Hlynka, the only sitting Member of Parliament of Ukrainian origin from 1940 to 1945. Representing the constituency of Vegreville, Alberta, for the...
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- Author:Hlynka, AnthonySummary:
- Author:Keyes, GregSummary:
Thrust into periless action by his father’s spirit and his village’s shaman, Fool Wolf, perhaps the laziest of heros in his father’s eyes, must face his battles, or face the wrath of his ancestors. In...
- Author:Carter, SarahSummary:
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly...
- Author:Halter, ReeseSummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. From Dr. Reese Halter comes a remarkable, concise account of the honeybees that have profoundly...
- Author:Halter, Reese Dr.Summary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. In our ever-warming world, trillions of indigenous bark beetles are killing billions of mature...
- Author:Chard, RosieSummary:
"Edith Stoker’s father is building a wall in their backyard. A very, very high wall—a brick bulwark in his obsessive war against their hated neighbour Edward Black. It is 1969, and far away, preparations are...
- Author:Ruiter, John deSummary:
Focusing on relationship, parenting and sexuality, The Intelligence of Love puts into words how profound honesty changes life from the inside out, how the vastness of human consciousness begins with an open and soft heart. "When...
- Author:Carew, D.B.Summary:
When Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder spots an abandoned cell phone during his afternoon jog, the innocent discovery drags him into the psychotic games of Ray Owens, a suspect at the centre of a high-profile kidnapping...
- Author:Vyvyan, ClaraSummary:
In 1926, two British women came from Cornwall to Edmonton and travelled through northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon by rail, sternwheeler, and canoe. For the women, it was a liberating experience, yet Vyvyan'...
- Author:Korieh, Chima J.Summary:
A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent...
- Author:Beach, KimmySummary:
you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of...
- Author:Marie de France, Slavitt David R.Summary:
The twelve “lays” of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folktales were the raw material for Marie de France’s...
- Author:Grant, PatrickSummary:
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them,...
- Author:Ellis, FaronSummary:
The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party politics in the late twentieth century...
- Author:Zimmermann, Ernest RobertSummary:
For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews,...
- Author:Zuehlke, Mark, Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam JamesSummary:
The follow up to Canadian bestseller The Loxleys and the War of 1812, catches up with the family in 1864 as threats from America once again place the Canadas in grave danger. The story is told as a travelogue as George Loxley reports on...
- Author:Grant, AlanSummary:
The story follows the Loxleys, a Canadian family living in the Niagara peninsula as they're torn apart by the American invasion of Canada in 1812, and the subsequent war that raged across both countries as British troops, Canadian...
- Author:Ryan, GarrySummary:
When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once...
- Author:Schnitzer, Deborah, Keahey, DeborahSummary:
An original and highly subversive critique of the academy by women affiliated with universities and colleges across Canada, The Madwoman in the Academy:Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower explores topics familiar to women working in...
- Author:Gerritsen, Resi, Haak, RuudSummary:
"The Belgian Malinois is an exceptional working dog used by police and military units everywhere. In this book, Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak explore the history and development of the Belgian Malinois to understand why it'...