Laugh as you learn about America's friendly northern neighbor with this step-by-step guide to Canadian customs, pop culture, and slang -- perfect for anyone who's considered moving to (or just visiting) maple leaf country. Topics...
Social life and customs
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Author:McCartney, JenniferSummary: - Author:Fiola, ChantalSummary:
"Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as "all Métis people are Catholic,"...
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Author:Menzies, Charles R.Summary:"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based...
- Author:Robertson, David AlexanderSummary:
Finaliste prix TD/Récipiendaire du prix littéraire du Gouverneur général 2017, pour la version originale When we Were Alone. En aidant sa grand-mère à entretenir son jardin, une fillette remarque chez celle-ci des...
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Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
- Author:McCartney, LeslieSummary:
A project originally conceived to document the biographies of Elders by the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute, Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih is an invaluable...
- Author:Monro, AliceSummary:
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
A picture book celebrating Indigenous culture and traditions. The Governor General Award-winning team behind When We Were Alone shares a story that honors our connections to our past and our grandfathers and fathers. A boy and Moshom,...
- Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:
The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of...
- Author:Smith, A. G., Livesey, RobertSummary:
The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source...
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Author:Walker, NikiSummary:Provides information on the lives of Native Americans in North America with a focus on such topics as food, transportation, hunting and fishing, beliefs, and more.
- Author:Smithyman, KathrynSummary:
Explores how the waters, mountains, and forests of the Pacific Northwest have provided food and shelter for groups such as the Tlingit, the Haida, and the Kwakiutl for thousands of years.
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Author:McAdam, SylviaSummary:Traditionally and through custom, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are shared and passed down through the generations in the oral tradition, utilizing stories, songs, ceremonies, lands, waters, animals, land markings and other sacred rites...
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Author:Weight, RichardSummary:Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.
Mod began life as the quintessential...
- Author:GARNER, HughSummary:
A collection of short stories, depicting a variety of characters and situations.
- Author:Kayani, Mohammad SaleemSummary:
These stories highlight the mutual love and respect which should characterize Muslim family life....
- Author:Delaronde, Deborah L.Summary:
When a young boy is assigned a project about the fur trade by his teacher, he doesn't know who to turn to because his mom works all day. With help from his grandfather and the internet, they travel back in time and discover how the fur...
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Author:Pascoe, BruceSummary:The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an accessible and highly illustrated pocket-sized guide. It?s an invaluable introduction to Australia?s rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. It takes a non-chronological...
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Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary: - Author:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
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