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In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist—and sometimes clash—in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the...
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Inhabit Media
Parution :
2021-08-19
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"Today, Bonavista has stabilized its population with signs of growth in the past few years, its business start-up rates are the highest in the province, vacant buildings are harder and harder to come by, and new families continue to move in each year. On this current...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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NOMINATED Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society, 2021
In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-08-01
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In A Promise of Sweet Tea, a Jewish community comes alive in this vividly told story of a childhood interrupted by the Holocaust.In his wry and evocative prose, Pinchas Blitt conjures Kortelisy — a humble, vibrant village in the backwoods of western Ukraine. Young...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2021-07-12
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Real War,Real Soldier gathers the remaining memories of a veteran of World War II. Raoul Corbeil served in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1946, and fought in the bitter Northwest Campaign that opened the route to Antwerp and liberated Belgium and the Netherlands.
His...
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ÉDITIONS FPC
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2021-06-17
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In France, underground networks find refuge for eleven-year-old Eva Lang and her younger sisters, protecting them from internment camps.In an orphanage in Slovakia, a pastor shelters young David Korn and his older brother, saving them from deportation.In a village in...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2021-06-15
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work...
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AU Press and CCLH
Parution :
2021-05-31
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Titanic. Its story is one of all those bound together on that ill-fated voyage in April 1912. On board were writers, artists, millionaires, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, honeymooners, children, crew, and emigrants, all looking for a...
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Nimbus
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2021-05-18
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Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants.
As one of...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-04-30
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Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in...
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Inhabit Media
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2021-04-21
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The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2021-04-13
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Rough Justice is a history of policing and crime in early Newfoundland. It focuses on the period between the appointment of the first constables on the island in 1729 to the establishment of the Newfoundland Constabulary in 1871, now known as the Royal Newfoundland...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2021-03-31
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WINNER Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2022)
The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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As American society becomes more polarized by the day, the question of how this "exceptional nation" can hope to regain its mojo is more pressing than ever before. With his unique blend of wry humor and clear-headed analysis, Howard Burton wades into America's partisan...
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Open Agenda Publishing Inc.
Parution :
2021-02-24
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Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2021-02-16
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Award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of the Preston area, the organizations and churches that helped bolster the population, and the struggles, successes, and personal stories of several Preston-area residents.
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2021-01-26
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In the summer of 1944, eighteen-year-old Leslie Fazekas and his family are deported from their hometown of Debrecen, Hungary, to Vienna, Austria, as forced labourers. Fate and fortune have intervened to save their lives — after the war, they discover that nearly half of...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2021-01-24
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Born into “the blessings of liberty in a free State,” Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Bayou Boeuf region of Louisiana’s Red River Valley. Twelve Years a Slave is the chronicle of his captivity at the mercy of sadistic plantation owner Edwin...
Editeur :
ClassicBooks
Parution :
2020-11-23
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Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written,” The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a...
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ClassicBooks by KTHTK
Parution :
2020-11-18
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