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Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…
B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.
Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime…
novel. This book details the evidence that Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. 2015.
When Jean Baird's daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean's instinct was to turn to books. Although she found that the thoughts…
of counsellors, psychologists, and self-help gurus were some help, the works that truly did were by literary writers, largely from the UK and the US. Jean and her husband George Bowering found little from Canadian writers on the subject, and this anthology of original pieces attempts to fill that gap. c2009.
A guide to help people facing death make the best of their remaining days and cope with practical and psychological…
concerns. Includes advice on preparation and planning, retaining and relinquishing control, and making the gradual transformation from a physical to a spiritual existence. 1996.
When Abigail Carter realized that her husband, killed on 9/11, wasn't coming home, she began to grieve, basing her process…
on alchemy. First was blackening, which strips down lead to its original alloys and corresponded to her initial phase of disorienting grief. Then the whitening stage, which purifies the metal, was when new routines took hold and she started feeling as though she might make it, and lastly came reddening, when the base metal turns to pure gold, which corresponded to Carter's own enlightenment. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.
The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as…
she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.
Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…
of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.
Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded…
their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.
The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…
back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.
Cet ouvrage rédigé à l'intention des amis et des membres de la famille d'un mourant, aborde clairement et franchement nombres…
des inquiétudes susceptibles de les troubler. Le docteur Buckman explique comment parler au mourant et comment l'écouter avec sensibilité. 1989. Titre uniforme: I don't know what to say.
Spiritual medium Altea takes the reader farther along the path of her personal cosmology. She explains how the living affect…
the dead's happiness and well-being, discusses reincarnation, and whether souls heal emotionally and spiritually after death. Provides dozens of stories about the lives and deaths of real people, and shares the insights and processes that helped heal her own wounds. Sequel to "The eagle and the rose". Some descriptions of violence. 1998.
What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in…
the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this 'Magic Tree House' Research Guide, which includes fun facts from Jack and Annie. Grades 2-4. 2005.
Nos contemporains ont l'épiderme sensible : ils ne supportent pas que nous parlions de mort et de deuil, mots devenus…
tabous pour eux. Nous ne pouvons plus évoquer ces sujets sans créer chez nos vis-à-vis un climat d'ennui et de mélancolie, voire de dépression. Si le déni social de la mort et du deuil prévaut, que dire du sort des endeuillés eux-mêmes? Ils se sentent malvenus dans une société qui adopte un non-dit devant ces réalités déjà pénibles à vivre. 2016.
La mort concerne tous les vivants, c'est bien connu. Elle fait partie de la vie et nous attend tous au…
bout du chemin. Mais que se passe-t-il donc entre le moment où nous quittons les nôtres et notre arrivée dans la dimension intemporelle? Comment atteignons-nous l'au-delà et nous adaptons-nous à cette nouvelle réalité? 2009, c2010.
Assistée de son thérapeute, une femme dont le mari bien-aimé est décédé tragiquement raconte les étapes de son deuil et…
l'apprentissage d'une nouvelle vie avec ses trois enfants. Un livre pour ceux qui traversent une telle épreuve. 2000.
Après le décès soudain de son mari, Sheryl Sandberg était certaine que ni elle ni ses enfants ne pourraient de…
nouveau être heureux. J'étais dans un "néant", écrit-elle, un vide abyssal qui envahit votre coeur et vos poumons puis limite votre capacité à penser et même à respirer. Son ami Adam Grant, psychologue à Wharton, lui a expliqué qu'après un traumatisme nous traversons des étapes pour s'en remettre et renaître. La résilience n'est pas innée : c'est un muscle que tout le monde peut développer. Option B combine l'expérience de Sheryl et les recherches d'Adam sur la façon de faire face à l'adversité. Racontant le moment déchirant où elle trouve son mari, Dave Goldberg, étendu sur le plancher d'une salle de sport, Sheryl ouvre son coeur - et son journal - et met des mots sur le chagrin et l'isolement ressentis après son décès. Mais Option B va bien au-delà du deuil de Sheryl ; par le biais de nombreux témoignages, il explore la façon de surmonter les tragédies de la vie. Ces histoires révèlent la capacité de l'esprit humain à persévérer... et à redécouvrir la joie. La résilience vient du plus profond de notre être et du soutien que l'on trouve autour de nous. Même après les événements les plus terribles, il est possible de grandir en trouvant un sens plus profond à notre vie. 2017.