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Farmers “Making Good”

Farmers “Making Good”

The Development of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920
by Lyle Dick
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), rural, social history

In this newly revised edition of the widely praised original Lyle Dick revisits the Abernethy district of Saskatchewan and his microhistorical analysis of the development of this prairie community.

 

Between 1882 and 1920, settlers from Ontario established social and economic structures at Abernethy, Saskatchewan. By virtue of hard work, perseverance …

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Far From Home

Far From Home

A Memoir of a Twentieth-Century Soldier
by Jeffery Williams
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Jeffery Williams offers a vivid retelling of his childhood in Calgary during the depression, followed by the outbreak of war and his enthusiastic enrolment in the Canadian Army. First sent to England in 1939, eager and untrained, Williams went on to a thirty-three year career, experiencing wars in Europe and Korea, and serving inCanada, Germany, th …

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Frederick Baraga's Short History of the North American Indians

Frederick Baraga's Short History of the North American Indians

edited and translated by Graham A. MacDonald
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Originally published in 1837 in Europe in German, French, and Slovenian editions, and appearing here in English for the first time, Frederic Baraga's Short History of the North American Indians is the personal, first–hand account of a Catholic missionary to the Great Lakes area of North America.

 

When Frederic Baraga, a young Roman Catholic Pries …

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Jemmy Jock Bird

Jemmy Jock Bird

Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
by John C. Jackson
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Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual who was caught between opposing sides of a dual Métis heritage.

Closely identifi …

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Just Dummies

Just Dummies

Cruise Missile Testing in Canada
by John Clearwater
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The Canadian government's 1983 decision to allow U.S. cruise missile testing in this country resulted in intense political fallout. The controversial program was kept quiet for as long as possible, but when key secrets were leaked, the powers that be faced harsh criticism from activists, opposition parties, Washington, and the Canadian public.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Western Canada

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Western Canada

From Family Businesses to Multinationals
edited by James J. Chrisman; J. A. D. Holbrook & J. H. Chua
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tagged : urban & regional, entrepreneurship, corporate & business history

This collection of articles by Canadian scholars adds to a growing literature that examines the nature of the entrepreneurial process at the national and regional levels. Presenting emerging research programs and scholarly perspectives on the roles of innovation, entrepreneurship, and family business in economic development, this book enriches our …

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Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures

Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures

The Art of Jane Ash Poitras
by Pamela McCallum, by (artist) Jane Ash Poitras
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In the past decade, Jane Ash Poitras, an Indigenous woman from northern Alberta, has emerged as one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation. Raised by a German widow who powdered her dark skin and tried to make her straight hair curl, Poitras did not begin to fully explore her Indigenous roots until adulthood. Seeking out her exten …

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Dark Storm Moving West

Dark Storm Moving West

by Barbara Belyea
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The fur trade was the impetus for much of the exploration and discovery of North America. Like rolling storm clouds, the expanding enterprise of the fur trade moved relentlessly west to explore the furthest reaches of the continent. From Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, and the Mississippi River, European and American explorers and traders followed a web …

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Crossing Over

Crossing Over

Genomics in the Public Arena
edited by Edna Einsiedel & Frank Timmermans
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Technologies of the life sciences offer tremendous possibilities but also numerous challenges. Crossing Over looks at the social and ethical issues around the new biology, particularly genomics and biotechnology. It examines the world of biotechnology from different perspectives, including economics, law, communications, the sciences, and bioethic …

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Eye on the Future

Eye on the Future

Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900
by Henry C. Klassen
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Calgary and the Bow Valley’s business climates were lively, competitive, and capitalistic in the late 1800s. Eye on the Future sheds light on the challenges of building and maintaining business in this area during this time of vast growth. It provides insight into how entrepreneurs, retailers, manufacturers, bankers, farmers, and ranchers pioneer …

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Faculty of Nursing on the Move

Faculty of Nursing on the Move

Nursing at the University of Calgary, 1969-2004
by Geertje Boschma
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Facutly of Nursing on the Move provides a historical analysis of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary in contrast and comparison to the broader evolution of academic nursing in Canada. It addresses how the faculty has responded to important social trends and changes in health care policy and helps the reader to understand contemporar …

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Breaking Ice

Breaking Ice

Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
edited by Fikret Berkes; Rob Huebert; Helen Fast; Micheline Manseau & Alan Diduck
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The pace of technological, social, and environmental change in Canada’s Arctic has profound effects on resource management and policy decisions. The result of a project undertaken by the Ocean Management Research Network, Breaking Ice examines the nature of arctic environmental evolution and sustainability.

 

From the pressures of development, tech …

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Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia

Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia

Representation, Rodeo, and the RCMP at the Royal Easter Show, 1939
by Lynda Mannik
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The big new thrill at this year's Royal Show will be the Chuck Wagon Races, with Red Indians in full war-paint going helter-skelter around the arena, chuck wagons swaying and jostling perilously, horse teams urged with wild whooping into a frenzy of speed.
—Newspaper advertisement, Sydney, Australia, March 1939.

 

In 1939, a troupe of eight rodeo …

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Challenging Frontiers

Challenging Frontiers

The Canadian West
edited by Lorry Felske & Beverly J. Rasporich
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The frontier reality of confronting new conditions, adapting cultural inclinations, and dealing with a volatile environment in an effort to establish and nurture new communities is central to the western Canadian experience. It has shaped many aspects of our heritage, and it is within that context the essays assembled here strive to identify and c …

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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
by Betty Bastien, edited by Jurgen W. Kremer, assisted by Duane Mistaken Chief
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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. As a scholar and researcher, Betty Bastien places Blackfoot tradition within a historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. In sharing her personal story of reclaimed identity, Bastien offers a gateway into traditional …

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As Long As This Land Shall Last

As Long As This Land Shall Last

A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 1870-1939
by Rene Fumoleau, epilogue by Joanne Barnaby
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As Long As This Land Shall Last is a thorough document of Treaty 8 (1899-1900) and Treaty 11 (1921) between the Canadian Government and the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. These treaties promised that the Indigenous Peoples who inhabited these places could live and hunt in freedom on their ancestral lands "as …

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Alliance and Conflict

Alliance and Conflict

The World System of the Iñupiaq Eskimos
by Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
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Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of inter–societal relations in early nineteenth–century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Basing his account on interviews with Indigenous historians, observations made by early Western explorer …

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Alequiers

Alequiers

The History of a Homestead
by Mike Schintz
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Alequiers is the story of a one–hundred–year–old log house on the banks of the Highwood River in Southern Alberta, with particular emphasis on the time that author Mike Schintz and his family spent there. The book details what little is known about Alexander McQueen Weir, the original settler on the site and goes on to describe the changes in …

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A History of the Edmonton City Market 1900-2000

A History of the Edmonton City Market 1900-2000

Urban Values and Urban Culture
by Kathryn Chase Merrett
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Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history.
Richly textured with archival photographs, drawings, maps, and anecdotes by vendors and customers of the city market, this book reveals how the market managed to thrive in the heart of a city that grew from a frontier outpost to a high–r …

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An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years

An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years

The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
by Mark MacGuigan, edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, foreword by Paul C. Martin
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Between these covers, you will read about the life of an individual—Mark MacGuigan—who dedicated his life to bettering Canada. From his fascination with the law to his interest in politics and international affairs, Mark made a lasting impact on virtually every area to which he turned his efforts . . . from the forward by Paul Martin

 

Mark MacGu …

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A Common Hunger

A Common Hunger

Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
by Joan G. Fairweather
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Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity.

 

Based on extensive research carried out in b …

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Fundamentals of Public Relations and Marketing Communications in Canada

Fundamentals of Public Relations and Marketing Communications in Canada

edited by William Wray Carney & Leah-Ann Lymer
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Experts in public relations, marketing, and communications have created the most comprehensive textbook specifically for Canadian students and instructors. Logically organized to lead students from principles to their application—and generously supplemented with examples and case studies—the book features chapters on theory, history, law, ethic …

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Baba's Kitchen Medicines

Baba's Kitchen Medicines

Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada
by Michael Mucz
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Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascina …

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A Business History of Alberta

A Business History of Alberta

by Henry C. Klassen
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A Business History of Alberta chronicles a rich history of people and enterprise—an enduring spirit of entrepreneurship, and an evolution of economic foundations—from pioneer outposts to sophisticated global players. Found the foundations of business in Alberta through its development to the emergence of big business, this is a fascinating stud …

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Nilling

Nilling

Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
by Lisa Robertson
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"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the surface of the phonemes, a gendered name rhythmically explodes into a founding variousness. And …

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Soap and Water & Common Sense

Soap and Water & Common Sense

The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease
by Dr. Bonnie Henry
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The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.

Dr. Bonnie Henry, a leading epidemiologist (microbe hunter) and public health doctor at the forefront of the …

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Antonin Artaud’s Alternate Genealogies

Antonin Artaud’s Alternate Genealogies

Self-Portraits and Family Romances
by John C. Stout
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Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqué. Now, John C. Stout’s highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography.

In Alternate Genealogies Stout analyzes two separate but interrelated preoccupations central to Artaud’s work: the self-portrait and the …

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Canada’s Official Languages

Canada’s Official Languages

Policy Versus Work Practice in the Federal Public Service
by Helaina Gaspard
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La politique sur les langues officielles du Canada a transformé la composition et les considérations opérationnelles des institutions fédérales. Grâce aux modifications législatives, la fonction publique du Canada a réussi à mettre en place une représentation équitable de ses deux groupes de langues officielles, assure la prestation de s …

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Activating the Heart

Activating the Heart

Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
edited by Julia Christensen; Christopher Cox & Lisa Szabo-Jones
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Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of know …

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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

by Daniel Heath Justice
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Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.

In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, t …

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New Brunswick at the Crossroads

New Brunswick at the Crossroads

Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
edited by Tony Tremblay
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What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity?

New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between p …

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It Can't Last Forever

It Can't Last Forever

The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
by David Campbell
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The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and other battlefields on Europe’s Western …

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Joseph's Big Ride

Joseph's Big Ride

by Terry Farish, illustrated by Ken Daley
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tagged : african american, cycling, friendship

A refugee boy’s determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship.

Joseph wants only one thing: to ride a bike. In the refugee camp where he lives, Joseph helps one of the older boys fix his bike, but he’s too small to ride it.

Joseph and his mother travel to America, where everything is strange and new. One day, he spots a red bi …

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Violence Against Indigenous Women

Violence Against Indigenous Women

Literature, Activism, Resistance
by Allison Hargreaves
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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives …

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Essential Song

Essential Song

Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
by Lynn Whidden
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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

by Laura K. Davis
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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.

Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her character …

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Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
edited by Brian M Ronaghan, contributions by Elizabeth C. Robertson; Janet Blakey; James A. Burns; Gloria J. Fedirchuk; Duane G. Froese; Eugene M. Gryba; John W. Ives; Alwynne B. Beaudoin; Raymond J. Le Blanc; Thomas V. Lowell; Brian O. K. Reeves; Laura Roskowski; Murray Lobb; Nancy Saxberg; Jennifer C. Tischer; Stephen A. Wolfe; Robin J. Woywitka; Robert R. Young; Timothy G. Fisher; Grant M. Clarke; Luc Bouchet & Angela M. Younie
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Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. L …

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Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada

Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada

Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed
edited by Maeve Conrick; Munroe Eagles; Jane Koustas & Caitríona Ní Chasaide
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The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging and to the image of the nation abroad. Linguistic landscapes reflect the multi-faceted identities and cultural richness of the nations. Earlie …

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downstream

downstream

reimagining water
edited by Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong
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downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporti …

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The Parent Track

The Parent Track

Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
edited by Christina DeRoche & Ellie D. Berger
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The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives—gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation—and at different phases of a parent’s academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ide …

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From the Tundra to the Trenches

From the Tundra to the Trenches

by Eddy Weetaltuk, edited by Thibault Martin, introduction by Isabelle St. Amand
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“My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.” So begins From the Tundra to the Trenches. Weetaltuk means “innocent eyes” in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy.

In 1951, Eddy decided to leave James Bay. Because Inuit weren’t allo …

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Travels and Identities

Travels and Identities

Elizabeth and Adam Shortt in Europe, 1911
edited by Peter E. Paul Dembski
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Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission to oversee civil service reform under Prime M …

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Gandhi in a Canadian Context

Gandhi in a Canadian Context

Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada
edited by Alex Damm
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Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India’s greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi’s interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in the twentieth century, and the implications of Gandhi’s thinking on a r …

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The Incomparables

The Incomparables

by Alexandra Leggat
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The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels incapable of doing in words. For the past ten years she’s apprenticed in the wardrobe department of a small Shakesp …

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Governing Cities Through Regions

Governing Cities Through Regions

Canadian and European Perspectives
edited by Roger Keil; Pierre Hamel; Julie-Anne Boudreau & Stefan Kipfer
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The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.”

Governing Cities Through Regions b …

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Animal Subjects 2.0

Animal Subjects 2.0

edited by Jodey Castricano & Lauren Corman
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Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the “question of the animal” ricochets across the academy and reverberates within the public sphere, Animal Subjects 2.0 builds on the previous book and takes stock of this explosive turn. I …

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Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes

Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes

Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews
edited by Barry L. Stiefel & Hernan Tesler-Mabé
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Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who compare and contrast the experience of Jews along the chronological spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present) in their respective countries. Of particular interest to them is determining the factors that shaped the Jewish …

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From the Iron House

From the Iron House

Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
by Deena Rymhs
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In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomso …

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Translation and Translating in German Studies

Translation and Translating in German Studies

A Festschrift for Raleigh Whitinger
edited by John L. Plews & Diana Spokiene
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Translation and Translating in German Studies is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger, a well-loved scholar of German literature, an inspiring teacher, and an exceptional editor and translator. Its twenty chapters, written by Canadian and international experts explore new perspectives on translation and German studies as …

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Growing Up in Armyville

Growing Up in Armyville

Canada's Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission
by Deborah Harrison & Patrizia Albanese
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It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situa …

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