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  • A Long Journey

    Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland

    by Andrea Procter ...
    Series Book 86 - Social and Economic Studies
    Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought them into the circle of residential school survivors across Canada, and acknowledged their experiences as similarly painful and traumatic.For years, the story of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Avanimiut

    A History of Inuit Independence in Labrador

    by Carol Brice-Bennett, Lena Onalik, Andrea Procter ...
    Called the Northlanders by the Moravian missionaries who sought to colonize them, Avanimiut were Inuit who maintained traditional lifeways, autonomy, and spiritual beliefs in northernmost Labrador. Despite the attempts of the Moravian Mission, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the Anglican Church to bring them into their Christian and commercial trading worlds, the Avanimiut often held on to their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mining and Communities in Northern Canada

    History, Politics, and Memory

    by Arn Keeling, John Sandlos, Patricia Boulter, Jean-Sebastien Boutet, Emilie Cameron, Sarah Gordon, Heather Green, Jane Hammond, Joella Hogan0, Tyler Levitan1, Hereward Longley2, Scott Midgley3, Kevin O’Reilly4, Andrea Procter5, Alexandra Winton6 ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadian History and Environment
    For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities provided by new mining operations, they are also often left to navigate the complicated process of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit

    The Nunatsiavummiut Experience

    Edited by David C. Natcher, Lawrence Felt, Andrea Procter ...
    Series Book 2 - Contemporary Studies on the North
    On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their own regional self-government of Nunatsiavut. This historic agreement defined the Labrador Inuit settlement area, beneficiary enrollment criteria, and Inuit governance ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Sacred Feathers

    The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928

    The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy

    by William C. Wicken ...
    In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their people had signed with the British in 1752. Using this testimony as a starting point, William Wicken ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Across Canada by Story

    A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

    by Douglas Gibson ...
    Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played ... Read more

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  • 100 Canadian Heroines

    Famous and Forgotten Faces

    by Merna Forster ...
    Series Book 1 - Canadian Heroines
    In 100 Canadian Heroines you'll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we're remembering them. Or not! ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 More Canadian Heroines

    Famous and Forgotten Faces

    by Merna Forster ...
    Series Book 2 - Canadian Heroines
    In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together 100 more incredible stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in fields such as science, sport, politics, war and peace, and arts and entertainment, including the original Degrassi kids, Captain Kool, hockey star Hilda Ranscombe, and the woman dubbed ... Read more

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  • Stories About Storytellers

    Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others

    by Douglas Gibson ...
    The legendary Canadian book editor presents this "remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing" ( Toronto Sun).Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would ... Read more

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  • Nation Builders

    Barnardo Children in Canada

    by Gail H. Corbett ...
    This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become home children in Canada. Through first-hand accounts and archived materials, Corbett sensitively and accurately records the pilgrimage of the children who, against great odds, proved that Canada was the ... Read more

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