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Walking the line
By Marian Botsford Fraser. 1989
The author walked the Canadian-American border, visiting people on both sides in an effort to understand what it means to…
them. She discovered living memories, legends and stories present in family albums and graveyards. 1989.Walk to New York: a journey out of the wilds of Canada
By Charles Wilkins. 2004
In the spring of 2002, writer Charles Wilkins walked east from his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario to New York…
City. Wilkins met poets, hillbillies, even a baronial black African recently released from a torture prison, and visited wilderness mansions, mountain shacks, a Toronto cemetery, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout, he muses on walking - its history, its culture, its decline, and perhaps most of all its ability to replenish the senses and reconstitute a world shrunken by cyberspace and jet travel. 2004.Voyages et rencontres en franco-Amérique ((Hamac-carnets).)
By Dean Louder. 2013
Dean Louder voue une véritable passion à la Franco-Amérique et n'a de cesse d'en explorer les contrées avec sa petite…
fourgonnette transformée en campeur. Au cours des dernières années, il a raconté sur son blogue plusieurs de ses voyages. Ce géographe d'origine américaine, mais Québécois d'adoption et de coeur, offre ici le meilleur de ses pérégrinations en huit itinéraires qui sont autant de rencontres avec des Acadiens, des francophones du Canada et des États-Unis, des Cadiens, des Créoles et, bien sûr, quelques Québécois croisés sur son chemin. 2013.Votre grossesse au jour le jour: toutes les étapes, de la conception à la naissance
By Lesley Regan, Régine Cavallaro, Anne Trager, Fabrice Neuman. 2006
Avoir un enfant est sans aucun doute l'un des plus importants moments d'une vie. Pour s'assurer de vivre cette période…
dans le calme et la sérénité, voici un indispensable outil renfermant toutes les informations nécessaires, de la conception à la vie après l'accouchement, en passant par toutes les étapes de l'accouchement. Comprenant les toutes dernières mises à jour de la législation québécoise en matière de maternité, ce livre pratique est le plus complet qui soit. 2006. Titre uniforme: Pregnancy week by week.Voyage of the Stella
By R. D Lawrence. 1982
Unlikely utopia: the surprising triumph of Canadian pluralism
By Michael Adams, Amy Langstaff. 2007
Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation, and some pundits argue that similar convulsions will…
shake Canada's multicultural foundations. Adams argues that Canadians don't see this as inevitable - rather, they suspect that the world might just be disabused of its "realism" by the success of the Canadian multicultural experiment. By focusing on the more mundane task of helping people of all kinds get along - both materially and socially - Canada may prove to be the "experiment" that worked. 2007.Une naissance heureuse: bien vivre sa grossesse et son accouchement
By Isabelle Brabant. 2013
"Depuis sa première édition il y a plus de vingt ans, Une naissance heureuse a accompagné des milliers de femmes…
durant leur grossesse et la naissance de leur bébé. Nouvellement mis à jour pour répondre aux besoins et aux questionnements de la femme enceinte, ce livre explique en détail tout le processus de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, du début du travail jusqu'à l'arrivée du bébé. "Une île pour sauver la planète: l'aventure arctique d'un Robinson des glaces
By Emmanuel Hussenet. 2017
L'île Hans a fait l'actualité internationale, en 2010, lorsque le Danemark et le Canada en ont revendiqué tour à tour…
la possession. Pourquoi cette dispute à propos d'un rocher désert d'à peine un kilomètre carré situé au 80e parallèle ? Pour les ressources pétrolières qui s'y trouvent ! Parti en kayak rejoindre cette île qui n'appartient en réalité qu'au silence et au blizzard, le journaliste Emmanuel Hussenet raconte son incroyable périple dans le froid extrême et les glaces dérivantes. Il constate qu'à cause du réchauffement climatique, l'océan Arctique est maintenant en partie navigable. Mais ce changement entraînera d'autres conséquences : les courants marins ralentiront, l'oxygène dans l'eau se raréfiera - au détriment des poissons -, et les mers gonfleront jusqu'à atteindre un niveau catastrophique pour les populations côtières. Cependant, rien n'est encore perdu. Un audacieux projet de géo-ingénierie pourrait faire de l'île Hans une sorte de thermostat planétaire et ainsi sauver l'Arctique. 2017. Titre uniforme: Robinson des glacesTungsten John: being an account of some inconclusive but nonetheless informative attempts to reach the South Nahanni River by foot and bicycle
By John Harris, Vivien Lougheed. 2000
Harris' subtitle says it all: 'Being an Account of some inconclusive but nonetheless informative attempts to reach the South Nahanni…
River by foot and bicycle', interspersed with stories of research into a number of startling new facts concerning the dramatic history of Nahanni. 2000.Tundra: selections from the great accounts of Arctic land voyages
By Farley Mowat. 1973
Stories from the journals of European explorers who penetrated the Canadian tundra or the Barrens, that vast stretch of land…
north of the timber line and south of the Arctic seas. Describes their dealings with the Inuits and Indians, including the lessons in polar adaptation and survival learned from the native peoples. Sequel to "Polar passion". 1973.Toronto: a literary guide
By Greg Gatenby. 1999
What do Wilde, Hemingway, Yeats and Dickens all have in common? Besides being writers, they were all part of the…
Toronto landscape at one time or another. Written as a series of neighbourhood walking tours, this guide introduces the reader to over 500 authors who have lived or visited Toronto over the past 150 years. 1999.Toronto the wild: field notes of an urban naturalist
By Wayne Grady. 1995
Toronto is home to more wild wildlife today than in the nineteenth century. Thousands of species of native flora and…
fauna grow in a city which has become a lush ecosystem in itself. Wayne Grady writes about the extraordinary natural world which exists in Toronto's backyards and valleys. c1995.Tintin et le Québec: Hergé au coeur de la Révolution tranquille
By Tristan Demers. 2010
L'histoire d'amour entre Tintin et les jeunes lecteurs québécois a commencé bien avant qu'Hergé ne foule pour la première fois…
le sol américain, en 1965. Lors de son séjours au Québec, des milliers d'admirateurs se pressent autour de lui et, réciproquement, Hergé ressent d'emblée pour ce pays une sympathie profonde. Cet ouvrage à l'allure de journal retrace le voyage d'Hergé à Montréal, Québec et Manicouagan. Salon du Livre : Lauréat volet Vie pratique 2011. 2010.Timbit nation: a hitchhiker's view of Canada
By John Stackhouse. 2003
Beginning in the Maritimes, where physical beauty is contrasted with ugly economic reality, Globe and Mail reporter Stackhouse thumbs his…
way across the country, talking to Canadians. His conclusion: most are facing the decline of their old way of life, such as fishing or mining, becoming disconnected from the land and sea. Continuing on from Quebec through to British Columbia, the road behind reveals a people mainly concerned with jobs, and a country in a state of flux. 2003.Through northern eyes
By James Graham Gillan. 1991
Three's a crew
By Kathrene Pinkerton. 1940
Those were the days that I lived and loved: a biography of Gus d'Aoust, a professional barrenland trapper
By Gus D'Aoust, Alix Harpelle. 1984
An autobiography of Gus d'Aoust, a trapper in the North-West Territories. Known as a resourceful and sometimes wily man, Gus…
was not above trading in tobacco and alcohol to supplement his income from furs. For many years, working though a series of winter line camps, Gus ably survived in the harsh northern wilderness until his retirement in the late 1930's. 1984.Things that go squeak in the night and other stories
By Gregory Clark. 1976
The world outside
By Donald L Woodcock. 2005
From a secluded cottage on Vancouver Island, Woodcock wrote for newspapers and magazines all across the country, winning various awards.…
This is a collection of his nature writing which has appeared in Reader's Digest, Outdoor Canada, and Canadian Geographic. 2005.The world of the newborn
By Daphne Maurer, Charles Maurer. 1988
The authors dispel the idea that the womb is a warm, quiet place: it is noisy, cramped and turbulent. They…
also offer information on the development of senses and emotions after the baby is born. Winner of the 1988 National Psychology Award for Excellence in the Media. 1988.