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Animals and wildlife, Nature, Canadian travel and geography
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Discusses the wolves of Canada's Pacific Coast, who are smaller than their inland cousins and can swim and catch salmon.…
Explains their social behavior, seasonal habits, and coexistence with First Nations people. Companion to The Salmon Bears (DB 71788). For grades 4-7. 2010
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Travel and geography, General non-fiction, United States travel and geography, Canadian travel and geography
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Frequent Amtrak passenger and travel columnist offers advice on planning trips in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; finding the…
lowest fares; tipping train staff; packing sparingly; and practicing rail-rider etiquette. Explains railroad equipment, safety, and history. Revised and updated third edition. 2011
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Canadian travel and geography, Canadian non-fiction
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C'est en 1858 que l'abbé Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland sillonne pour la première fois les côtes de la Basse-Côte-Nord, nommées autrefois "le…
Labrador". Les paysages et les habitants entre Mingan et Blanc-Sablon l'ont marqué au point de lui inspirer, cinq ans plus tard, la publication de son récit de voyage Le Labrador. C'est avec finesse et humour qu'il raconte sa mission dans cette région éloignée et encore mal connue. Les mots de Ferland sont l'occasion de découvrir le fleuve et son littoral ainsi que de visiter le territoire et les populations acadiennes, irlandaises et autochtones qui l'habitent. Plongez dans le premier grand récit nord-côtier: une oeuvre majeure, complète, autonome et, surtout, reconnue par l'institution littéraire pour ses qualités géographiques, ethnographiques et narratives
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Canadian travel and geography
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L'aventure vibrante de Laure Morali au cœur de la communauté innue. Une rencontre bouleversante avec une terre, un peuple et…
un homme, Shimun. L'autrice excelle dans la transmission d'histoires porteuses de souffles anciens
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Canadian travel and geography, Canadian non-fiction, Customs and cultures
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"Une fenêtre ouverte sur les communautés innues : leur langue, leur légende, leur culture. José Mailhot, traductrice d'An Antane Kapesh,…
témoigne. Son récit passe du quotidien des Innus à leur vision de la vie. Témoin capital, José Mailhot, une Blanche chez les Innus, parle leur langue et épouse leurs coutumes. Un incontournable pour comprendre les relations entre les Québécois et les Premières Nations."
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Indigenous peoples biography
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Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod’s 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation - winning the…
Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes, and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of White classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now, elementary teacher; now, school principal; now, head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now, executive in the Government of Canada - and now, a celebrated author. Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod’s unquenchable spirit, Peyakow - a title borrowed from the Cree word for “one who walks alone” - is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod’s perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/White chasm resonates with particular force in today’s Canada.
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Journals and memoirs, Indigenous peoples biography
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Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars…
spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to ""civilize"" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only - not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family - from substance abuse to suicide attempts - and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. They Called Me Number One comes at a time of recognition - by governments and society at large - that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them. Bev Sellars is chief of the Xatsu'll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She has served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty Commission.
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Travelogues, Canadian history, Canadian travel and geography
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De novembre 1975 à octobre 1976, Serge Bouchard a voyagé avec des camionneurs dans le Nord-Ouest québécois. Son but :…
étudier et observer leur travail pour en faire le sujet de sa thèse de doctorat. Serge Bouchard et Mark Fortier ont transformé la matière de cette recherche ethnographique unique en un portrait vivant et pénétrant du monde des routiers. Ce livre nous entraîne bien au-delà des routes du Nord à l’époque des grands chantiers de la Baie-James. Il nous parle des mystères de la vie, de la liberté et de la création.
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Biography, Women biography, Canadian travel and geography, Literature biography
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Biography of Vic Steinberg, the pseudonym for an investigative journalist in Victorian-era Toronto, who kept her identity a mystery, dressed…
as a man, smoked cigars, and spent time in jails. Includes a glossary and a bibliography. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2013
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography
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A stunning series of b and w photographs by Marie France captures the camaraderie, the loneliness, the raw interaction between…
muscle and machine, and the unforgiving and starkly beautiful landscape within which drilling operations in Canada's North take place. A tribute to the men and women and the overpowering environment.
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Indigenous peoples biography, Actors biography, Journals and memoirs
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Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in…
a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far-north childhood. But five of Tomson's siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky is Tomson's extravagant embrace of his younger brother's final words: "Don't mourn me, be joyful." His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and profound, into the Cree experience of culture, conquest, and survival.
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Indigenous peoples biography
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In September 2015, Sheila North was declared the Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), the first woman elected to…
the position. Known as a "bridge builder", North is a member of Bunibonibee Cree Nation. North's work in advocacy journalism, communications, and economic development harnessed her passion for drawing focus to systemic racism faced by Indigenous women and girls. She is the creator of the widely used hashtag #MMIW. In her memoir, Sheila North shares the stories of the events that shaped her, and the violence that nearly stood in the way of her achieving her dreams. Through perseverance and resilience, she not only survived, she flourished.
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Indigenous peoples biography, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Il existe dans chaque famille des histoires qui laissent des traces pour des générations. Des micromythes qui ne sortent pas…
de la microcellule familiale. Qu'on entretient un peu comme... comme le feu d'un poêle à combustion lente : une bûche de temps en temps.Mononk Jules reconstitue le parcours de Jules Sioui, un Wendat qui a bousculé l'Histoire canadienne avant de sombrer dans un énorme trou de mémoire familial et historique. Dans sa tentative de comprendre comment s'écrit l'Histoire (ou comment elle ne s'écrit pas) l'auteur se retrouve, malgré lui, face à un colosse aux pieds d'argile. Comédien, dramaturge et marionnettiste, Jocelyn Sioui tire ici sur les petits et grands fils de l'histoire de cet énigmatique grand-oncle, héros autochtone du 20e siècle.
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Biography, Family and relationships, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples biography, Parenting, Paranormal
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Mark Anthony Rolo recreates a picture of his often conflicted mother during the last three years of her life. Rolo…
recounts stories of a woman who battles poverty, depression, her abusive husband, and isolation through the long northern Minnesota winters, and of himself, her son, who struggles at school, wrestles with his Ojibwe identity, and copes with violence. Some strong language
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Travel and geography, Canadian travel and geography, Nature
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Explains the formation of Canada's varied ecosystems, from the coastal rain forest and the prairie to the tundra and the…
Carolinian woodlands. Discusses continental growth and shaping, climate change, and animal and human inhabitants. Uses a question-and-answer format to introduce ways to decode the landscape. For grades 3-6. 2008
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Biography, Indigenous peoples biography, United States history, General non-fiction
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The author, an Iñupiat elder and chair of the First Alaskans Institute, describes his traditional, seminomadic childhood as well as…
his later education in the lower forty-eight states. Discusses his stint in the Alaska state legislature, role in the native land-claims movement, and commitment to preserving his culture. 2009
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Biography, United States history, Indigenous peoples biography
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Pennsylvania native recalls his move at age seven to the Navajo reservation. The author, who was known as "White Apple"…
to his new classmates, discusses his initial difficulties amidst relentless teasing and the eventual acceptance and admiration he felt for the people and the land. He reflects on how his experiences changed his own identity, and how these differences were magnified when he attended an eastern liberal arts college. Some strong language
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Biography, Nature, United States history, Canadian travel and geography, Science and medicine biography, United States travel and geography, Science and technology
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Profiles David Douglas (1799-1834), the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and throughout other areas of western North America.…
Tracks Douglas' history, from his birth in Scotland to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker to his adventures in North America discovering exotic new plants for the English and European market
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Literature biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Journals and memoirs, Criticism
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The author of Ceremony (RC 13366) describes the people, animals, and spirits she encountered in New Mexico and Arizona. Ever…
attentive to the world around her, she often walked along the arroyos of Tucson, looking for the glint of blue turquoise on the desert floor. She discusses her diverse ancestry, her experiences painting and writing, and her kinship with rattlesnakes
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Biography, United States history, War, Indigenous peoples history, Indigenous peoples biography, World War II, War and military biography
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Memoir of an original Navajo code talker during World War II. The author reminisces about a childhood spent near the…
reservation in New Mexico, the hardships he faced attending various boarding schools, and his pride at being selected as a marine. He soon discovered that his secret mission would put him in the midst of many deadly battles in the Pacific, though the unbreakable code would turn the tide of the war. Some strong language