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By Karyn L Freedman. 2014
Philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent…
hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. We follow Freedman from an apartment in Paris to a French courtroom, from a trauma centre in Toronto to a rape clinic in Africa. At a time when as many as one in three women in the world have been victims of sexual assault and when many women are still ashamed to come forward, Freedman's book is a moving and essential look at how survivors cope and persevere. Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2014.By M. William Phelps. 2016
When she was fifteen, Jennifer Mee developed an unrelenting case of the hiccups, hiccupping as many as fifty times a…
minute for months. Soon the Florida teen's strange story went viral. Dubbed the "Hiccup Girl" by the media, she gained international sympathy and appeared on a slew of popular TV shows. Eventually, Jennifer's hiccups went away, and so did her fame. Depressed and craving affection, Jennifer hooked up with the wrong people and slipped into drug dealing and street life - a downward spiral that led to the murder of an innocent young man. Now, investigative journalist Phelps expertly recounts Jennifer's shocking true story of thwarted desires, betrayed trust, and deadly manipulation. 2016.By Doug Lennox. 2017
Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday is this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history,…
famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you'll learn the answers to questions like: Where did the word "Canuck" come from? How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? Why do Canadian engineers wear iron rings? What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic? Who was the first Black woman elected to Canada's Parliament? What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics? How did the Halifax Explosion occur? Bestseller. 2017.By Harlo L Jones. 1995
Combining youthful innocence and wonder with adult awareness and insight, Harlo Jones chronicles the life of Dinsmore, Saskatchewan in the…
1920s and 1930s. Recalling the people, even the family dogs, who lived there, he talks about how the town worked, for example its electrical system, and also the institutions of a prairie town -- social, religious, educational, and commercial. 1995.By Robert Bothwell. 1988
Bothwell traces the history of both AECL and nuclear technology in Canada. Beginning with the early experiments in the 1930s…
in Europe, he describes the research and development of nuclear power in Canada, as well as Canadians' changing perceptions of and support for nuclear technology. 1988.By Lesley Choyce. 1996
An informal history of Nova Scotia, starting from its geology dating back more than 500 million years ago, and ending…
in the present. Choyce follows the arrival of different cultures, the wars fought over Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia's attachment to the sea. c1996.By Muriel Poulton Dunford. 2000
A resident of the North Thompson Valley for 50 years, the author uses a lifetime of observation and nearly a…
decade of research in her account of the history of the region from the pre-contact First Nations culture to the present. This is the story of the fur-traders, surveyors, homesteaders and fortune-seekers who passed through the area and of the few who stayed to call the valley home. 2000.By Irving Martin Abella, Harold Martin Troper. 1982
In the years 1933 to 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi…
persecution, Canada shut its door. This book traces the origins and results of Canada's immigration policy towards Jews. 1982.By Janet Merlo, Leslie Vryenhoek. 2013
Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination…
while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. Janet recalls how her love of policing was soured by covert and overt sexism within the ranks and by an institutional culture that valued toughness and silence over ethics and accountability. Tracing her twenty years in uniform, Merlo’s story details the highs and lows of her career in the RCMP – while her mental health and personal life disintegrated. 2013.By Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.By Owen A Thomas. 1996
Thomas presents a guide to the history of the Underground Railroad in the Niagara region of Ontario, and discusses the…
events and major figures involved in the Underground Railroad. This book can also be used as a guide-book to plan excursions to the sites mentioned. 1996.By Pierre Berton. 1992
Berton tells the story of Niagara Falls, from its geologic beginnings to its role in cultures up to the present.…
Along the way, he describes the legend and lore it has created, like the daredevils who went over the Falls in barrels and the engineers who tamed its power for electricity. 1992.By Jennifer O'Rourke, Tom Snyders. 2001
Traces the origins and history of how places are named in Vancouver and its neighbouring communities. Includes streets, neighbourhoods, waterways,…
mountains, boroughs and buildings. For example: Gastown, Commercial Drive, Leg-in-Boot Square, Lulu Island, Kanaka Creek and more. 2001.Like fields, fences, and old stone walls, roads can seem so much a part of the fabric of a landscape…
that we need reminding that many of them were made intentionally. In New Brunswick, road-building was a great labour performed without fuss by often reluctant workers drawn from a remarkably small population. Against heavy odds, New Brunswick by 1930 had roads and a highway system that, in terms of quality and coverage, was the envy of many larger provinces. 2012.A story of British Columbia logging and the people who logged. The author reminisces about his experiences as a logger,…
beginning in 1918. It also includes his recollections and discussions with more than twenty people who were involved in forestry in British Columbia. 1988.By Peter Paradis. 2002
The 1990s biker war on the streets of Montreal pitted the established Hells Angels against upstarts the Rock Machine in…
a battle for the drug trade. After being shot by a Hells hit squad, Rock Machine boss Peter Paradis watched as the police closed in and the Hells begin winning the war, spurring a penniless and ostracized Paradis to turn informant. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2002.By Joseph Madison Beck. 2016
A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of…
raping a white woman calls to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2016.By Amy Dresner. 2017
In 2011 Amy Dresner was high on OxyContin, stupidly pulled a knife on her then-husband, and was promptly arrested. Within…
months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, and looking at 240 hours of community service. For the next two years she would sweep up syringes on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety and starting life over in her forties. 2017.Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those…
professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. 2018.By Lynne Bowen. 1992
Bowen recounts the adventures of the 2,000 middle-class British citizens who followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister Isaac Barr…
to settle 200 miles from Saskatoon in 1903. Most were unprepared for the harsh Prairie climate. 1992.