Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557291208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557291208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Fragments of Truth
Author: Naomi AngelPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478023171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings, Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern nations, Angel demonstrates how the TRC offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of Canada’s Indigenous populations.
Northern Rover
Author: A. L. KarrasPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, whose manuscript, written in the 1980s, only came to light after his death in 1999. In an uncompromising, straightforward style, Karras and Hanson reveal the geography, wildlife, and natural history of the region as well as the business and social interactions between people. The book offers a look at the vanished subsistence and commercial economy of the boreal forest, wound around a fascinating personal story of courage and physical stamina.
An Unfound Door
Author: Nicholas VarnerPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525578871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In An Unfound Door, Gabe evolves from a shy, sickly loner to a thoughtful, empathetic young man as he makes his way through the turbulence of 1960s America, beginning a quest to understand the purpose of his existence and the mystery of his recurring dream. His journey takes him along winding mountain trails and on hitchhiking adventures far into Canada. He experiences love and loss, finding wisdom and friendship in the words of a Chinese shop owner, a Blackfoot elder, an imam, and an old widower the locals call Tommy Trashcan. His path eventually merges with that of his best friend, Manolo, and together they search for answers in the confused and chaotic sixties, encountering a mysterious biblical hitchhiker who saves them from a dangerous situation. At last, the meaning of Gabe’s recurring dream becomes clear, as he and Manolo walk a path together into a new world.
Driving off the Map
Author: Sharon MacFarlanePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459702778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker. These are a few of the amazing array of characters who live in, or near, Sharon MacFarlane’s fictional village of Palliser, a community struggling to survive in an age of rural depopulation. Whether its a terrifying drive on a frozen river ("Ice Road") or a cancelled trip ("We Didn’t Go to Len’s This Summer"), each of the stories in Driving off the Map takes us, with a character, on a journey toward epiphany. MacFarlane understands these people, and she tells their secrets with humour and compassion. Her prose is as unadorned, yet as teeming with hidden life and beauty, as the prairie she evokes.
Lily : A Rhapsody in Red
Author: Heather RobertsonPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888629548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lily: A Rhapsody in Red, second book in the King Years trilogy, is a dazzling comic epic of politics, sex and scandal during the 1920s and '30s. Our guide on the journey is the indomitable Lily Coolican, the former secret bride of Mackenzie King who follows her ne'er-do-well twin brother Jack to the raw mining country of northern Ontario. Jack gets rich; Lily gets Communism. In Ottawa Lily's Mum finds her true calling as the psychic architect of Mackenzie King's political triumphs. King, now leader of the Liberal Party, turns his skills in scheming and spiritualism to running the country. While his ethical elasticity traps him in a web of Grit patronage and corruption, Lily marches towards the dialectical light in service of the byzantine politics of the Communist Party. Lily is at once a remarkable political meditation and an uninhibited comedy that will outrage and delight, and change forever how Canadians think about the turbulent Twenties and Thirties.
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
Author: Susan FisherPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442661704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort. Susan R. Fisher also considers how the representation of the war has changed in Canadian children's literature. During the war, the conflict was invariably presented as noble and thrilling, but recent Canadian children's books paint a very different picture. What once was regarded a morally uplifting struggle, rich in lessons of service and sacrifice, is now presented as pointless slaughter. This shift in tone and content reveals profound changes in Canadian attitudes not only towards the First World War but also towards patriotism, duty, and the shaping of the moral citizen.
The Cowboy's Surprise Bride & The Cowboy's Unexpected Family
Author: Linda FordPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369701739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
An unexpected partnership The Cowboy’s Surprise Bride by Linda Ford Traveling to Canada’s Northwest Territories is a chance for Linette Edwards to escape a dreaded marriage in England, and she eagerly accepts Eddie Gardiner’s written invitation. How could she know that Eddie thinks he’s marrying her friend, Margaret? Eddie planned for a well-bred bride, not a ragamuffin stranger with a little boy in her care. He’ll shelter them until springtime and no longer. But before the snow clears, his heart begins to thaw, too. The Cowboy’s Unexpected Family by Linda Ford Cassie Godfrey is determined to be self-sufficient. But her plans are interrupted by four young orphans—and one persistent cowboy. If she’ll care for the children until their uncle claims them, Roper Jones will build Cassie’s house. All Roper can offer Cassie is the love and acceptance she claims not to need. But dreams, like hearts, can change…
Best Mounted Police Stories
Author: Dick HarrisonPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888640543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
22 stories about the Canadian Mountie.
The Making of Jake McTavish
Author: D. M. McGowanPublisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681815133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In the west of the 1890s, Jake’s wife is raped and murdered, an image from which he attempts to escape and hide. When two thieves try to take what little he has left, Jake realizes he must face the past and solve his wife’s murder to truly escape the images in his head. But to find the killer, he discovers even more surprises … Jake McTavish left his home in central Canada when he was in his early teens. After working ships on the Great Lakes, fishing Lake Winnipeg, feeding cattle south of Fort Garry, and shooting wolves on the prairies, he starts his own cattle operation in the foothills of the western mountains. Then he meets his life-long partner, Anna. Jake and Anna were married three years when it all came crashing down. He came home to find his beautiful wife raped and murdered. In an attempt to escape the vision of his butchered wife and all that he lost, Jake runs deep into the mountains, where he spends three years trapping and panning gold. When two outlaws attempt to rob him and leave him for dead, Jake finally comes out of the stupor he has lived in and begins to fight back. First he deals with the two thugs. Next he returns to his homestead to find his wife’s killer. Solving a murder after several years is no easy task, especially when it includes surprises he didn’t want to find.
