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From Vimy to victory: Canada's fight to the finish in World War I
By Hugh Brewster. 2014
All was not quiet on the Western Front during the last years of WWI. Soldiers faced mud, trench foot, bombardments,…
barbed wire, snipers, and poison gas. Despite dreadful odds, the Canadian Corps moved forward, reaching deep inside enemy-occupied Belgium. The war cost Canada 60,661 of its finest citizens and thousands more who were wounded in body and mind. After their hard-won victory at Vimy Ridge, Canadians earned the admiration of the world — and a reputation as soldiers who could get the job done. From that moment in 1917, Canadian soldiers proved themselves again and again on the bloody battlefields of Europe. Grades 3-6. 2014.A soldier's sketchbook: the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
By John Wilson. 2017
Russell Rabjohn was just eighteen years old when he joined up to fight in the First World War. In his…
three years of soldiering, he experienced the highs and lows of army life, from a carefree leave in Paris to the anguish of seeing friends die around him. Private Rabjohn was also a trained artist, and drew everything he saw, including a captured pilot of a downed German biplane; the horrific Flanders mud; a German observation balloon exploding in midair; and the jubilant mood in the streets of Belgium when the Armistice is finally signed. With no surviving veterans of the First World War, Rabjohn's drawings are an unmatched visual record of a lost time. Grades 4-7. 2017.Watchdogs and gadflies: activism from marginal to mainstream
By Tim Falconer. 2001
With respect for politicians and trust in governments at an all-time low, Canadians are increasingly relying on activists to protect…
them from bad policies and to generate new ideas. Activism redefines citizenship and the way Canadian democracy works. 2001.Before I was a critic I was a human being / (Essais series #no. 7)
By Amy Fung. 2019
Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national…
art critic. Following the tangents of a foreign-born perspective and the complexities and complicities in participating in ongoing acts of colonial violence, the book as a whole takes the form of a very long land acknowledgement. Taken individually, each piece roots itself in the learning and unlearning process of a first generation settler immigrant as she unfurls each region's sense of place and identity. 2019.Occuper les distances: essai (L'écritoire)
By Esther Laforce. 2021
Je n'ai rien dautre que mes mots, mon clavier, du papier et des livres pour me soutenir. Mais n'est-ce pas…
le chemin sur lequel je me suis engagée ? N'ai-je pas choisi de détourner le regard du bonheur et de la joie pour me tourner vers la douleur des autres ? Je savais que le chemin était risqué, mais je ne peux pas me laisser avaler. Je dois remonter et saisir mieux comment l'écriture peut me réengager dans la vie. Essai littéraire à la fois rigoureusement documenté et hautement personnel, Occuper les distances reprend les motifs de Tombée, roman d'Esther Laforce paru simultanément chez Leméac, dans un lumineux dialogue avec la ction