Each year, thousands of people visit Bob Bartlett’s boyhood home located in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, to catch a glimpse of this famous sealing captain’s amazing life. Hawthorne Cottage has been designated a National Historic...
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- Author:Bartlett, Robert A.Summary:
- Author:Soucy, Gaetan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, originally published in French as La Petite Fille qui Aimait Trop les Alumettes, dominated the bestseller lists and captured major media attention when it appeared in Quebec. It was the first...
- Author:Landry, JaniceSummary:
Halifax author and journalist Janice Landry returns to her roots, as she revisits high-profile Canadian police investigations she covered as a novice television reporter during the 1980s and 1990s. One story involves the unsolved murder...
- Author:McCue, HarveySummary:
The Learning Circle is designed to help meet Canadian educators' growing need for elementary-level learning exercises on First Nations. It is the third in a series of four classroom guides on First Nations in Canada....
- Author:McCamus, John D.Summary:
This book examines the legal framework for secured credit set out in the Personal Property Security Act. First proclaimed by Ontario in 1976, the PPSA is in force today in all nine common law provinces and the three federal territories...
- Author:Smyth, J. E.Summary:
The Law and Business Administration in Canada, 14th edition, responds to the needs of today’s business students by streamlining the traditional study of contractual principles, emphasizing current legal topics involving government...
- Author:Ternier Gordon, IreneSummary:
High finance, wilderness adventures, violence, and questionable legal tactics all played important roles in the history of the North West Company. William McGillivray, head of the company from 1804 until 1821, was arguably the most...
- Author:Tregebov, RheaSummary:
When Annette Gershon was ten, growing up in her father's delicatessen in Winnipeg in the 1930s, her parents decided to escape the devastation of the Depression by returning to Russia. These were the years of Stalin and the threat...
- Author:Thomas-Peter, B.A.Summary:
1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP,...
- Author:Martel, SuzanneSummary:
Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award. Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler...
- Author:Myers, Paul, Meyers, SethSummary:
It's finally here - the definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Meticulously researched and written with the full cooperation and participation of the Kids by critically acclaimed...
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
"From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. Since it was...
- Author:Donovan, LoisSummary:
Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather. A move to Edmonton was definitely not part...
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This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...
- Author:Summary:
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...
- Author:Summary:
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...
- Author:Summary:
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...
- Author:Summary:
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...
- Author:Summary:
This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute...