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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
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A guide to building a well designed perennial flower garden that will bloom from spring until fall, and provide an everchanging variety of colour. 1987.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
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Shows how to overcome the Canadian climate and produce a bountiful garden of vegetables and herbs. Discusses soil preparation and seed selection. 1982.
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Health and medicine, Hobbies and crafts
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A comprehensive guide to massage techniques with clear step-by-step instructions, written and demonstrated by a leading international expert on massage.…
"Clare's massage course is a sensuous sun-filled treat. And the bonus is that afterwards you have a terrific, much-appreciated skill". 1988.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Presents a powerful portrait of modern Aboriginal life in Canada, in contrast with the perceived failings so often portrayed in…
politics and in media. The author illustrates his arguments by compiling a remarkable selection of letters, speeches and writings by Aboriginal leaders and thinkers, showcasing the extraordinarily rich, moving and stable indigenous point of view across the centuries. 2014.
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Hobbies and crafts
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Features lots of great projects using cardboard boxes, designed for indoor or outdoor play. Chapters discuss where to find boxes…
of different sizes, what a basic tool kit consists of, how to use paint and glitter, when adult help is needed, and the time involved in constructing the creations. Clearly labeled and illustrated steps, lists of supplies, handy tips, suggested variations, and "Reality Check" fact boxes are found throughout. The authors - a father and his two sons - deliver plenty of humour along with the instructions. Grades 3-6. 2006.
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Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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This informative guide will help First Nation, Métis and Inuit adult learners excel and achieve their educational goals when attending…
a post-secondary program. It looks at the various aspects of student life that one may face while going to school. 2007.
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Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction, Hobbies and crafts
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The author provides information about how to start up and run a successful home-based business. It emphasizes three main aspects of business: marketing, administration and finance. 1997.
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Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Describes the treatment of aboriginal children in Canada who were taken to live in residential schools. The story is told…
using interviews and anecdotes shared by those who attended the schools. The current state of aboriginal affairs is also discussed. 1997.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Rudy Wiebe collaborates with Yvonne Johnson, a great-great-granddaughter of Cree Chief Big Bear, to tell the story of her life.…
Born in Montana with a double-cleft palate, she experienced a life of physical and sexual abuse, and slid into alcoholism before participating in the murder for which she is now in prison. Strong language, descriptions of violence, descriptions of sexual violence. 1998.
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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Wright details the European conquest of the Maya, Inca, Aztec, Iroquois and Cherokee peoples. He describes the resistance by these civilizations to foreign occupation and their struggles to survive.
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Hobbies and crafts
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This is a guide to creative knitting, including step-by-step techniques, personal tips and over 20 inspiring projects by Debbie Bliss,…
successful knitwear designer and author of numerous best selling books. Colour knitting, embroidery on knitting and index are omitted from the recording. 2001.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Canada's relationship with its Indigenous people has suffered as a result of both the residential school system and the lack…
of understanding of the historical and current impact of those schools. Healing and repairing that relationship requires education, awareness and increased understanding of the legacy and the impacts still being felt by Survivors and their families. Guided by Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith, readers will learn about the lives of Survivors and listen to allies who are putting the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into action. For senior high readers. 2017.
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Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body…
frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.
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Award winning non-fiction, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of…
miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize and the 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2017.
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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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A comprehensive study 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 cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the 'Indian Hospitals' were underfunded, understaffed,…
overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the 'Indian Hospitals, ' the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, "Separate Beds" reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten. 2016.
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Hobbies and crafts, Science and technology
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Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Grades K-3 and older readers. 1984. (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)
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Careers and job hunting, Hobbies and crafts
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Includes nearly 100 sample resumes in a variety of eye-catching formats, and 20 cover letters. Explains how to create a…
concise and stylish resume using worksheets, and how to format and submit them electronically. 2006.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant…
legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation--the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country's history. Asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies. 2017.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
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This book is packed with DIY techniques and technology. It gives hundreds of ideas for the home, to fire your…
imagination and show you how with step by step descriptions. 1995. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.