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In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2017-05-17
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While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2017-05-16
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In 1940 in the remote village of Rogne, Norway, eleven-year-old Margrit Rosenberg and her parents believe that they have finally found the safety that has eluded them since fleeing from Germany two years earlier. What could go wrong in a tiny village? But after war...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2017-05-15
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Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2017-05-10
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During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organized by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. The CSFS aimed its message at progressive Canadians, hoping to convince them that the USSR was an egalitarian...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2017-05-10
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This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expedition to the Boothia Peninsula, Rae discovers the missing link in the Northwest Passage. On the same trip, a chance encounter with an Inuit hunter...
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Ronsdale Press
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2017-04-30
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If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre is inspired by the work of archaeologist Jean-Pierre Chrestien (1949–2008), who worked hand-in-glove with a generation of researchers in helping to unearth unexpected and always interesting aspects of New France.Contributions focus first...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2017-04-28
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"How much longer could we last?" sixteen-year-old Amek Adler laments, after arriving at yet one more concentration camp in the spring of 1945. From the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos to the Radom forced labour camp, and from the Natzweiler concentration camp to Dachau, Amek...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2017-04-01
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WINNER Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books, 2005
WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, 1999
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”—Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)
"[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-03-29
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Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was a celebrated buffalo hunter—killing 126 in just one day—who ran wagon trains to Santa Fe, was caught up in the Civil War, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier.
To escape punishment for...
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U of R Press
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2017-03-18
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Born the son of a Wyandot Chief in Kansas in 1849, Irvin Mudeater was a celebrated buffalo hunter—killing 126 in just one day—who ran wagon trains to Santa Fe, was caught up in the Civil War, and lived as a plainsman on the lawless frontier.
To escape punishment for...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2017-03-18
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The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2017-03-16
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"Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German industrialists were particularly...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-02-17
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"Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German industrialists were particularly...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-02-17
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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...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2017-02-03
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Hidden away underground, in a box, twelve-year-old Molly has only her older cousin and her diary to keep her company. For two years, she writes of her confinement “in a grave”: the cold, dark and stuffiness, the unbearable suffering from insufficient food, and the...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2017-01-01
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WINNER Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research, 2017
WINNER Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2017
WINNER CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association, 2017
WINNER Gita Chaudhuri Prize,...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2016-10-07
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Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans,...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2016-10-05
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A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric (or Otto) Koch. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
The Regina Collection
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