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Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492
By Ronald Wright. 1992
Randy Bachman: takin' care of business
By John Einarson, Randy Bachman. 2000
A biography of rock guitarist Randy Bachman, from his early days in Winnipeg, to his years with the Guess Who…
and BTO. A songwriter, producer, guitarist, and session player, Bachman has played an integral role in the evolution and growth of the Canadian music industry. Some strong language. 2000.One dead Indian: the premier, the police, and the Ipperwash crisis
By Peter Edwards. 2001
On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest…
aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within 72 hours, one of the protestors was dead, shot by an OPP officer. Six years later, Peter Edwards investigates the event. 2001.Flowers on my grave: how an Ojibwa boy's death helped break the silence on child abuse
By Ruth Teichroeb. 1997
In 1988, a 13-year-old Ojibwa boy named Lester Desjarlais committed suicide. Journalist Ruth Teichroeb covered the inquest into his death,…
which was scheduled for one day, but which lasted three months. She relates what happened to Lester as he left the Sandy Bay First Nations reserve and found himself in a maze of foster homes, mental hospitals, and treatment centres. Sexual content and descriptions of violence. 1997.Flint & feather: the life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake
By Charlotte Gray. 2002
An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…
of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.Bitter embrace: white society's assault on the Woodland Cree
By Maggie Siggins. 2005
For over 200 years, the Cree community of Pelican Narrows has endured a torturous relationship with encroaching European culture, from…
the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Author Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of Native issues, after years of research on a community she has known most of her life. 2005.Boyzone - by request (Youth project)
By B. P Fallon. 1999
This is the story behind Boyzone's greatest hits, revealing their thoughts on songwriting and the inspiration for each song -…
songs which have catapulted them into the charts many times. The book is the official tie-in to the "Boyzone's Greatest Hits" album. For junior and senior high students.Spoken here: journeys among threatened languages
By Mark Abley. 2003
An award-winning Canadian journalist documents the unprecedented extinction of the world's less-spoken languages. Drawing on his encounters with linguistic remnants…
from the arctic to aboriginal Australia, he illustrates threats to many endangered tongues. The report also speaks to the relationship between language and identity, and warns of globalization's consequences. 2003.Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider…
cultural concerns? John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. 2002.The Miller companion to jazz in Canada and Canadians in jazz: And Canadians In Jazz
By Mark Miller. 2001
The kids book of the Far North (Kids Books Of ...ser.)
By Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2000
The Far North is a beautiful but fragile world populated by many different plants, animals and people. This book is…
about the Arctic region, which is shared by eight countries. Inside you'll find amazing facts and fascinating stories, as well as ecological alerts. Grades 3-6. 2000.26 Italian songs and arias, medium high: Medium High Voice (26 Italian Songs And Arias Ser.)
By John G. Paton, John Glenn Paton. 1997
The oratorio anthology: Soprano
By Richard Walters. 1994
A collection of solo arias from oratorios, masses and cantatas. The literature was confined to work by major composers, and…
bypasses the dated oratorio literature found in previous collections. The most famous music is here, and so is interesting and less famous music by masters. There are new music engravings for each aria, and extensive historical notes and translations. 1994.The music of Canada
By Timothy J McGee. 1985
Describes the many genres of music that have flourished in Canada: art music, folk and popular, church music, and jazz.…
Each chapter begins with a brief summary of the social and political background of the period under discussion, to understand its music in the context of Canadian history. Includes analytical sections for the more advanced reader, and an anthology of thirteen compete works by prominent Canadian composers. c1985.The complete lyrics of Cole Porter
By Robert Kimball, Cole Porter. 1992
Before the gold rush: flashbacks to the dawn of the Canadian sound
By Nicholas Jennings. 1997
A generation of musicians, from Vancouver to Halifax, were drawn to Toronto's Yorkville district during the sixties. From among this…
group came some of Canada's most well known musicians, both then and now. 1997.Elements of music: notes : music history 551-111-93
By Patricia Kerridge. 2003
Talking turkeys
By Benjamin Zephaniah. 1995
The Verve: crazed highs to horrible lows (Youth project)
By Martin Clarke. 1998
In 1993 Richard Ashcroft, the lead singer of a Wigan-based four-piece call The Verve, declared that "History has a place…
for us. It may take us three albums, but we will be there". Four years later, The Verve recorded their groundbreaking third album, "Urban Hymns", and his predictions came true. Journalist, Martin Clarke, examines the band's rollercoaster history, tracing their origins and early influences. Junior high.