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Expédition Caribou ((Grande nature),)
By Benjamin Simard. 1998
L’histoire vraie d’un coureur des bois d’aujourd’hui, d’un homme d’action qui vit avec les caribous dans l’impitoyable froid du Grand…
Nord. Revoici l’auteur de Ben, poète à ses heures, qui raconte ses aventures: les tournées harassantes en avion, les dangereuses expéditions de capture, la magie de la toundra. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 1998.Jean Béliveau: ma vie bleu-blanc-rouge
By Allan Turowetz, Jean Béliveau, Chrys Goyens, Christian Tremblay. 2005
Jean Béliveau, figure marquante du hockey, raconte ici sa vie, de ses débuts dans les équipes juniors jusqu'aux dix-huit glorieuses…
saisons dans l'uniforme du Canadien de Montréal, dont il sera capitaine durant dix ans. Il relate ses souvenirs, encore vifs, et parle des nombreux amis qu'il s'est fait durant les cinquante années qu'il a consacré à ce sport si cher aux Canadiens. Mais son témoignage ne se borne pas qu'aux souvenirs, aux records réalisés et aux coupes Stanley remportées. Publ. en 1994 sous le titre: Jean Béliveau: une époque, un regard (FD03102). 2005. Titre uniforme: My life in hockey.Journal
By Saint-Denys Garneau. 1962
Bonbons assortis: récits
By Michel Tremblay. 2002
Huit récits inédits (sauf deux) dans lesquels l'auteur évoque quelques épisodes de sa petite enfance à Montréal et trace le…
portrait de ses proches : sa mère Nana, sa grand-mère Tremblay, son oncle Josaphat, etc.Jacques Rousseau, la science des livres et des voyages
By Pierre Couture. 2000
Portrait d'un scientifique québécois, passionné de botanique, de génétique et de géographie qui a été l'un des rare chercheurs de…
son temps à établir des ponts entre les sciences naturelles et les sciences humaines. Le Québec lui dont plus qu'il ne l'imagine. entre autres, il s'est battu pour la fondation du Jardin botanique, pour la promotion de la qualité de la recherche scientifique et sa diffusion en langue française, et pour la création des vocations scientifiques. 2000.Gabrielle Roy
By Jeannette Biondi. 1991
Camillien Houde
By Jean-Claude Germain. 1988
Armand Frappier: lu
By Yannick Villedieu. 1992
André Laurendeau
By Guy Beausoleil. 1988
Hockey fight in Canada: the big media faceoff over the NHL
By David Shoalts. 2018
In late 2013, Canadians were intrigued to learn the NHL chose Rogers as its exclusive national broadcaster over both CBC…
and Rogers'̉ bitter rival, Bell Canada. The decision was met with equal parts fascination, shock and anger. When CBC rank-and-file employees came to believe their leaders missed a chance to hold on to at least a part of Hockey Night in Canada, a move that could have saved some of their jobs, their disappointment turned to outrage. This is also a story of great irony, as the win also proved to be costly for the victor in the first years. 2018.Clifford: a memoir, a fiction, a fantasy, a thought experiment
By Harold Johnson. 2018
When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Saskatchewan Indigenous community for his brother Clifford's funeral, the…
first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections that have too long sat dormant. Moving from the old family home to the log cabin, the garden, and finally settling deep in the forest surrounding the property, his mind circles back, shifting in time and space, weaving in and out of memories of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother, an expert trapper and a source of great strength; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe. As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold's mind's eye: teaching his younger brother how to tie his shoelaces; jousting on a bicycle without rubber wheels; building a motorcycle. Memory, fiction, and fantasy collide, and Clifford comes to life as the scientist he was meant to be, culminating in his discovery of the Grand Unified Theory. 2018.Monseigneur Ignace Bourget: lu par Hélène Matteau
By Hélène Matteau. 1992
Norman Bethune: raconté par Jean-Pierre Bordua
By Jean-Pierre Bordua. 1988
The woo-woo: how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
By Lindsay Wong. 2018
A young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons…
when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, 'The Woo-Woo' is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2019. Winner of the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2018.During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan…
and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young--and her grandmother is too old--for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be able to sponsor them, and Van and her grandmother will fly away to safety. But in the meantime, Van is forced to work hard to satisfy her aunt and uncle, who treat her like an unwelcome servant. And at school she must learn that calling attention to herself is a mistake, especially when the bully who has been tormenting her turns out to be the son of a military policeman. Winner of the 2020 Yellow Cedar Award. Grades 3-6. 2018.Meet Tom Longboat (Scholastic Canada Biography Ser.)
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2019
On April 19, 1907, a hundred thousand people lined up to watch the eighth running of the Boston Marathon. At…
the start of the race, more than one hundred runners surged forward, and at the end, Tom Longboat won it in an record-breaking 2 hours, twenty-four minutes, and twenty-four seconds. He became the most famous runner in the world, yet faced scrutiny and criticism of every part of his life, from his revolutionary training techniques to his Indigenous heritage. After the peak of his running career, Tom volunteered for military service in World War I. He survived, and faced further challenges upon his return. But Tom Longboat continued to live his life on his own terms, and his legacy as Canada's foremost distance runner continues to be recognized to this day. Grades K-3. 2019.My River: Cleaning up the LaHave River
By Stella Bowles. 2018
Stella Bowles was a Grade 6 Nova Scotia student when she turned environmental activist to campaign against sewage pipes draining…
straight into the LaHave River. This is the inspirational first person account of Stella's Grade 6 science fair project which caught the eyes of the media, the public and government leaders propelling her into the limelight. Stella details her two and a half year fight to clean up the river, winning numerous awards for her environmental activism along the way. She succeeds in shaming three levels of government and rallying supporters into funding a $$15.7 million cleanup. Today, she continues to campaign for cleaner water and demonstrates to other children how to test water quality in their own backyards, and how to take action if they find their water is polluted too. Grades 3-6.Dubbed "the Jesse James of Canada," Norman "Red" Ryan was infamous in the 1920s and '30s until he was gunned…
down in an attempted robbery in Sarnia, Ontario. Ernest Hemingway wrote about Ryan's escape from Kingston Penitentiary for the Toronto Star, Morley Callaghan based a novel on him and stories of Ryan and his crimes filled newspapers and airwaves. One of the first Canadians to be granted parole, he was held up by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett as a model of rehabilitation and became a regular guest at Toronto police picnics. All the while, however, Ryan was continuing a crime spree on the side. Jim Brown, filmmaker and CBC Radio host, tells the incredible true story of "Red" Ryan, a larger-than-life criminal whose fame and legend were much encouraged by the media--he was the "Kardashian" of the time--and whose story endures.The stovepipe: a memoir
By Bonnie E. Virag. 2011
Bonnie, age four, along with four of her siblings, was taken from her home in rural Canada and placed with…
the Children's Aid Society. Over the next fourteen years, the children are split up and reunited multiple times. By luck or providence, the four sisters spend the majority of their lives together working on a tobacco farm and living in an attic, where the stovepipe offers warmth, comfort, and news from the outside world. This is her testament to the resilience of the soul and the importance of family, friendship and fortitude.Cujo: the untold story of my life on and off the ice
By Curtis Joseph. 2018
Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from…
Sharon, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play eighteen seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames; be ranked among the all-time greats in several key categories; and win an Olympic gold medal while representing Canada. Joseph is a legend in Toronto, where his fandom rivals that of other beloved Leaf greats, and he’s widely thought of as one of the best goalies of all time. Joseph talks about his highly unusual upbringing and what led him to put on his first pair of skates. He shares on- and off-the-ice tales no fan has heard before: the untold story behind the legend. Bestseller.