An in-depth look at the life and career of retired judge and conflict-of-interest commissioner Ted Hughes, whose unflinching integrity earned him the reputation as Canada’s moral compass.Throughout his sixty-year career, Ted Hughes has...
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- Author:McInnes, CraigSummary:
- Author:Webster, ChristineSummary:
Provides information on the Mi'kmaq Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Howse, JenniferSummary:
Provides information on the Métis with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:McCutcheon, Mark A.Summary:
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel...
- Author:Ansloos, Jeffrey PaulSummary:
"In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies...
- Author:Ward, MaxSummary:
- Author:Klages, GregorySummary:
"How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally...
- Author:Engel, HowardSummary:
- Author:Connor, RalphSummary:
Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber...
- Author:Durkin, DouglasSummary:
Craig Forrester is newly home following World War I, newly married, and newly mired in social upheaval. Will he choose complacency alongside his peers, or his personal moral code? Originally published in 1923, The Magpie is a social...
- Author:Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
- Author:Cook, TimSummary:
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
Book 3 of the Cornish Trilogy
The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish, whose vast...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
When the Cornish Foundation decides to fund the production of an opera entitled Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold, the participants find their lives begin to resemble the opera's plot.
- Author:Rauhala, AnnSummary:
“What a lucky girl!” Everybody who has adopted a daughter from China has heard that one. And every parent has said, or thought, in reply: “No, we’re the lucky ones.” This anthology sets out to explain why people who have adopted...
- Author:BOYLE, Harry J.Summary:
Warm humerous story about an Irish-Canadian farming community. a good old-fashioned easy paced story with a happy ending and a few surprises.
- Author:MOORE, BrianSummary:
"No, for wasn't this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn't he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and...
- Author:Ward, DavidSummary:
Part biography, part memoir, and all catharsis Jim Harrison grew up on the prairies, played Junior in Saskatchewan, and pro with the Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, and Oilers. Three years before a former teammate equaled the mark, Harrison set...
- Author:Frey, CeceliaSummary:
On a remote lonely mountain, Constance (frustrated poet) skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein (brilliant author) loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson (the ex-husband who won the GG) is the...
- Author:Roy, Zoë S.Summary:
The Long March Home tells the story of three generations of women. Agnes, a young Canadian goes to China as a missionary, and falls in love with a Chinese medical student. Growing anti-western sentiment forces her to return...