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Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not…
know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more determined than ever to learn how to read. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read.Available copies:
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Quarantine, What is Old is New by Ian Arthur Cameron, MD, Historian and medical doctor Cameron has produced a gripping…
history of quarantine in Canada, the forgotten story of the men and women who worked to save lives and protect the citizens of this land.A story of the early years of immigration to Canada, and of marine transportation with wooden ships sailing reluctantly into the age of steam. It also details significant aspects of the history of Canada, Nova Scotia and Halifax, and recounts the story of contagious disease in the 19th-20th Centuries. But it is much more than the past, dealing with the future of dread diseases we face today, including SARS, West Nile fever, and the feared influenza pandemics, such as those possible with the latest swine flu (H1N1) or potential bird flu (H5N1). Also contains extensive appendices, medical definitions, and is indexed for history and medicine
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This manuscript is a culmination of years of effort to reveal a “lost chapter” in Canadian and Maritime history, a…
story that began with a Mi’kmaq and Basque seasonal presence on the NS Eastern Shore as early as the Sixteenth Century, followed by a permanent settlement of Chezzetcook Acadian families in the latter part of the Eighteenth. Did you know Samuel de Champlain visited Tor Baie, Guysborough Co, NS in 1607 before sailing up the St. Lawrence River to found Quebec City the following year? Discover the Acadian Awakening in Nova Scotia and its connections to the “quiet revolution” in Quebec, the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick, and on the federal scene, the emergence of the “Three Wise Men” who changed national perspectives on bilingualism and multiculturalism in Canada forever. It is also hoped that this book will entice readers to visit these “forgotten shores” to uncover a wealth of information at the unique “Parc de Nos Ancêtres” Commemorative Park in Larry’s River, and “Place Savalette National Historic Site”, in Port Félix, Nova Scotia.
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In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate…
African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism — a book that shows how one woman's voice changed the course of Nova Scotia's history. Pearleen Oliver pushed open doors that blocked Black girls from nurses' training. She kicked Little Black Sambo out of public schools. She was spokesperson for Viola Desmond's appeal of her 1946 conviction for challenging racist customs. A founder of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the Black United Front and the Black Cultural Centre, she was the first female moderator of the African United Baptist Association, and a founder of the AUBA Women's Institute. Editor Ronald Caplan weaves Pearleen's voice from her interviews and speeches. We experience Pearleen's awareness of injustice as she grew up in segregated New Glasgow schools. A married woman, we see her outrage re-kindled by a bewildered teenager at her door who was barred from nurses' training by her skin colour. Pearleen began to speak out before civic and religious and community groups, Boards of Trade, Rotary luncheons, B'nai B'rith and Baptist services and nuclear disarmament conferences. Newspapers carried her voice?a voice of reason and determination and common sense — across the province, and then across Canada. While raising five sons and carrying on the duties of a minister's wife, Pearleen mentored young girls and women in summer camps, church groups, continuing education, and women's groups. She was the organist in her churches, and she wrote histories of Black communities. In this eye-opening book Pearleen Oliver tells stories of activist journalist Carrie Best who published Nova Scotia's first Black newspaper, of successful businesswoman Viola Desmond who was sidetracked by petty racism, of Black soldiers who fought Nazi racism in the Second World War and then came home to racial discrimination in Canada. This book keeps alive a determined fighter for social justice who should not be forgotten. Pearleen Oliver demonstrated what one person, one voice, can do.
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian politics and government, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Social issues
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The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root…
cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
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The Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal…
youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens.
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Frontier and pioneer life, Canadian history, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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À travers onze portraits d'enfants, le lecteur est invité à explorer les multiples aspects de la vie en Nouvelle-France, à…
différentes époques, tels que : la traversée de l'Atlantique à bord d'un grand voilier, la prise de possession du territoire, l'économie, les vêtements, la médecine.
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Forts de leurs expériences, Jacques Lépine et Yvan Cournoyer, deux pionniers de la formation immobilière au Québec et experts investisseurs…
immobiliers, proposent leurs expertises sur les divers aspects relatifs à tout investissement immobilier. Pour réussir dans ce domaine, il est essentiel de connaître toutes les notions de base pour maximiser vos placements et obtenir ainsi le meilleur rendement possible. Alors, que ce soit pour ceux et celles qui veulent s'enrichir à long terme ou encore générer rapidement des liquidités par des flips, cet ouvrage vous permettra une planification optimale grâce à ses multiples et précieux conseils, vous évitant ainsi plusieurs erreurs communes aux investisseurs en immobilier, et qui sont parfois onéreuses. Mais attention, bien qu'il ne se veuille pas une réponse finale à toute situation, 101 trucs en investissement immobilier vous orientera vers les solutions possibles selon les événements, les situations et les options qui se présenteront. Qui plus est, vous y trouverez les connaissances utiles pour faire les bons choix, tant pour : la recherche ; l'analyse ; le financement ; l'administration et la gestion ; la comptabilité ; la fiscalité ; l'achat ou la vente. Écrit par deux passionnés de l'immobilier dans un langage simple et à la portée de tous, les auteurs sauront vous convaincre que l'immobilier demeure le meilleur placement qui soit quand il est bien planifié, sans oublier de vous souligner que votre PROFIT SE FAIT TOUJOURS À L'ACHAT.
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Poetry, Indigenous peoples, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Maya Cousineau Mollen, poète innue, propose un premier recueil de poésie.Dans Bréviaire du matricule 082, la poète explore les multiples…
chemins de la colère, qu'elle soit territoriale, identitaire ou entourant la notion de féminité. Elle considère ce premier recueil comme une façon de traverser « les lieux périlleux » de la colère, une émotion qui, une fois domptée, permet à la voix poétique de s'élever.
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Voici le troisième recueil de poésie de l'auteure de Lait et miel et Le soleil et ses fleurs. Rupi Kaur,…
figure iconique du mouvement féministe et emblème milléniale par excellence, obtient un succès fou à travers le monde depuis 2015. Avec près de quatre millions d'exemplaires vendus, autant d'abonnés Instagram et plus de 650 000 fans Facebook, cette jeune artiste canadienne militante continue, de bien jolie façon, de dire tout haut ce que plusieurs pensent - ou vivent - tout bas.
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Indigenous peoples history, Indigenous peoples, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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La collision de la civilisation amérindienne avec la civilisation européenne a été d'une brutalité inouïe. Des travaux fouillés ont fait…
voir comment les populations aborigènes ont souffert à la fois du choc microbien, des politiques plus ou moins concertées d'extermination des puissances coloniales, des invasions militaires et de la négligence assumée des autorités gouvernementales. Cependant, les difficultés des peuples amérindiens du nord-est de l'Amérique à s'approprier ce qu'on a pris l'habitude de nommer le monde moderne ne provenaient pas uniquement de la méchanceté des « Blancs », de la violence des armes ou des épidémies. Ils ont également été brisés, malgré d'héroïques résistances, sur le terrain de la culture, entendue ici dans son sens le plus large.
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Biography, Women biography, Canadian travel and geography, Politics and government biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction
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See below for English description.Thérèse Casgrain était une réformatrice, militante féministe et politicienne de Montréal. Mieux connue pour avoir mené…
la campagne en faveur du droit de vote des femmes au Québec, elle a été la première femme à être élue chef d’un parti politique au Canada. Elle a mené une longue carrière en politique et a lutté vigoureusement contre les injustices sociales, économiques et politiques qui touchaient les femmes et les hommes à cette époque.Ce livre inspirant et informatif rend hommage à la vie de Thérèse Casgrain et à son influence dans l’histoire du Canada.Thérèse Casgrain was a reformer, activist, feminist, and politician from Montreal. Best remembered for leading the campaign for women’s suffrage in Quebec, Thérèse Casgrain was the first woman to be elected the leader of a political party in Canada. She had a long political career and vigorously fought against social, economic, and political injustices affecting both women and men.This inspirational and informative book goes through Casgrain’s life and highlights her influence in Canadian history.Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Thérèse Casgrain
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Jérémie McEwen met toute sa verve au profit d'un débobinage de l'esprit, nous fait vivre la spirale vers le drain…
d'un personnage qui se vide de toute trace de celle qui l'a quitté...
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Self help, Women biography, Social issues, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Vivre dans la peau d'une grosse personne, c'est beaucoup de contraintes, de malaises et de soucis. Vivre avec la différence…
est difficile... surtout quand on consacre son temps et son énergie à vouloir ressembler à tout le monde. Au lieu de changer, Vanessa Duchel a choisi de miser sur sa différence. D'aimer ce corps que les standards rejettent. D'en prendre soin, de le mettre en valeur, de s'y incarner complètement. Sans y avoir tout à fait réussi, elle a résolu d'essayer sans cesse, parce que c'est au bout de ce long travail d'acceptation qu'on trouve le bonheur, la paix, l'authenticité et, surtout, l'amour de soi. Dans un langage direct et coloré, et avec une franchise presque douloureuse parfois, elle se livre ici pour inviter lecteurs et lectrices à s'aimer pour qui ils sont, et à construire un monde où, au lieu d'être un problème, la différence sera enfin perçue comme une richesse.
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Une fois passé le cap de la quarantaine, travailler devient facultatif pour la plupart des Québécois. Quoi, vous n'étiez pas…
au courant? En fait, il s'agit du secret le mieux gardé de notre système économique: la surconsommation et l'analphabétisme financier nous maintiennent artificiellement prisonniers du métro-boulot-dodo.Inspiré par la stratégie FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), j'ai moi-même pris ma retraite à 39 ans, sans gagner à la loterie et en dépit d'un salaire moyen. Déjouer le système pour atteindre la liberté financière, même en temps de pandémie, ça vous tente?Ce livre résume comment j'y suis arrivé et comment vous pouvez aussi y parvenir.
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Biography, Actors biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Alyssa Milano&’s sharply observed, uproarious, and deeply intimate ode to the life she has lived and the issues that matter…
most. Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, delivers here a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays are unvarnished and elegant, funny and heartbreaking, and utterly real. A timely book that shows in almost real time the importance of taking care of others, it also gives a gut-punch-level wake-up call in an era where the noise is a distraction from what really needs to happen, if we want to live in a better world. These are stories of growing up in celebrity, of family and of friends, of connections and breaking apart. They have teeth on the page and come from the heart. And they are stories that offer a direct line into the thoughts and life of one of the most visible, hard-working humanitarians we have. A bestselling children's book author, Alyssa's finally giving her fans worldwide what they really want to hear directly from her about: the life she has lived, the things she's seen and experienced, and the way she lives in and with the world
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Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction
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Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled…
in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the Halifax School for the Blind and into the classroom of Mrs. Beaton. It was there that he discovered his voice, a voice he uses to recount his remarkable journey from a shy little boy to a community leader.
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True crime, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Au coeur du chaos Le 29 janvier 2017, un carnage survient a la grande mosquee de Quebec. Le policier Jonathan…
Filteau saute dans sa voiture et fonce en direction du lieu de culte. Les répartiteurs sont sur les dents?: un événement majeur est en train de se produire. Les messages se multiplient et la tension monte. Jonathan ne sait pas encore qu'il sera le premier répondant sur place et qu'il devra, pendant quelques heures, diriger les opérations de la plus importante tuerie politico-religieuse à survenir au Québec. Heureusement, son parcours professionnel particulier l'ayant envoyé aux quatre coins du globe dans différents conflits armés lui permettra d'assumer ce rôle. Mais il l'admet?: une partie de lui essaie toujours d'échapper aux souvenirs de cette soirée tragique... C'est avec l'aide de son épouse et de sa fille qu'il parvient doucement à maîtriser le ressac des chocs subis.
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A board book highlighting well-known Canadian symbols and traditions, including famous buildings and wildlife. Rhyming riddles frame the question, while…
brightly painted clues help the youngest book lover figure out the answer. Grades P-2 and older readers. 2012.Available copies:
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Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside…
as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of Smokes, offering insight into an often overlooked or misunderstood world.