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This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945 looks at Canadian women’s experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2021-11-02
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True story of a young Nova Scotia woman who found herself witness to the Armenian genocide in the nineteenth century, from celebrated author of Mona Parsons.
These days it’s common for twentysomething women to seek adventure and life experience through travel. Some...
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Nimbus
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2021-10-26
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WINNER Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
WINNER Canadian Historical Association Ontario CLIO Prize (2022)
WINNER Ontario Historical Society Indigenous History Award (2022)
WINNER Manitoba Book Awards Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-10-01
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WINNER J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society (2022)
NOMINATED Toronto Heritage Book Award (2022)
Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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WINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS
It’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom, whatever the result may be.
With war...
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Baraka Books
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2021-09-30
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Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2021-09-10
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The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world.The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2021-09-07
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This book is about Newfoundland and Labrador’s response following 9/11. For the first time, Mac Moss tells the stories of people across the entire province—from Stephenville to Gander, to Goose Bay and St. John's—who pitched in and helped approximately 13,000 stranded...
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Flanker Press
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2021-09-03
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More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women—a document which was, strictly speaking, not supposed to be kept in the first place—is a unique privilege.
A...
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Nimbus
Parution :
2021-09-01
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“Jean-Yves Soucy’s story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.” Romeo Saganash
It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But he ends up at an...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-08-30
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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
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-04-30
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