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Canadian travel and geography, Travelogues
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Le bout de la route est un journal de bord, le carnet d'un double chemin, d'une échappée dans un désert…
d'épinettes, de roches et de rivières. L'autrice, se préparant au deuil d'une amie chère, roule dans l'éblouissante beauté sauvage du Nord québécois et du Labrador, croise les pistes d'ours et d'orignaux, surplombe les lacs à l'aurore, laisse derrière elle l'artifice, les bruits et la fureur du monde. Elle trace à son insu une route du dedans, celle qui arrête le temps, celle du souvenir, des réminiscences et des confidences livrées à l'oreille du vent. Formidable conteuse, Monique Durand nous amène dans le Nord-Est québécois et terre-neuvien, et au coeur de la péninsule labradorienne
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Science and technology, Science and medicine biography, Canadian travel and geography
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Meet Joseph-Armand Bombardier — Canadian inventor, innovator and entrepreneur!Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand grew up in Valcourt, a small village in…
Quebec. Like many places in rural and Northern Canada, it was often cut off from the world after winter snows made the roads impassable. When Armand was a kid, he was already inventing his own toys, including his first attempt at a vehicle that could drive through snow. As an adult, the passion to invent a snow machine became a serious ambition after his 2-year-old son died from appendicitis. It was winter and they could not get him to the hospital.Armand persisted even after many failures — until he did it! His B7 snow machine was used to deliver milk and mail . . . and it saved lives. But Armand didn’t stop there! He continued to invent and innovate his whole life, making contributions to the war effort and developing machines like the Muskeg tractor and the famous Ski-doo. His inventions revolutionized the way people live and work.The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed.
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Biography, Canadian travel and geography, Social issues
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Chaque année, plus de 400 jeunes d'âge mineur arrivent seuls au Canada pour demander le statut de réfugié. Sans parents.…
Sans adulte pour les accompagner. Seuls raconte le parcours de trois d'entre eux : Afshin, Alain et Patricia. Leur témoignage ouvre une fenêtre sur les nombreux déchirements, les difficiles sacrifices et les innombrables épreuves qui jalonnent ce chemin rempli d'obstacles. Mais surtout, Seuls parle du courage et de la résilience dont ont fait preuve ces jeunes avant de pouvoir, enfin, accéder à une vie où la menace et le danger ne font plus partie du quotidien. Seuls est une adaptation du documentaire du même nom, réalisé par Paul Tom et produit par Picbois Productions , en salles à l'automne 2021 et ensuite diffusé à Télé-Québec. Trois histoires vraies s'entrecroisent au fil des pages, soutenues par les puissantes illustrations de Mélanie Baillairgé. Un documentaire touchant qui sensibilise à une réalité peu connue et qui donne une voix à trois personnes réfugiées.
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Canadian travel and geography
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Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by…
no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated before being able to finally obtain a life where threats and danger are no longer a part of their everyday existence. Key Text Features: author's note captions chapters character drawings comic map dialogue flags further information illustrations introduction maps writing inspiration Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
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Canadian history, General non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography
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Finalist, 2023 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize – BC and Yukon Book PrizesA beautifully illustrated collection of inspiring life…
stories of fifty extraordinary historical women from BC and the Yukon. This fascinating, informative, and charming book introduces young readers to a diverse group of women who changed the face of history in unexpected ways and defied the expectations and gender norms of their times. Through charming illustrations and concise biographies, Her Courage Rises features social activists and politicians, artists and writers, scientists and healers, pioneers and prospectors, athletes and entrepreneurs, teachers and cultural tradition keepers. These women represented all ages, walks of life, and backgrounds. Some, like Cougar Annie and shipwreck heroine Minnie Paterson, became legendary in popular culture, long after their deaths. Others, like politician Rosemary Brown, artist Emily Carr, and Olympic sprinter Barbara Howard, achieved fame during their lives. Still others, including photographer and cultural teacher Elizabeth Quocksister, artist and cultural consultant Florence Edenshaw, land claims activist and translator Jane Constance Cook (Ga’axsta’las), and language champion Barbara Touchie, made great strides in preserving and promoting Indigenous rights and cultures. And many, like environmentalist Ruth Masters, water diviner Evelyn Penrose, and Doukhobor pioneer Anna Markova, are less well-known but still made important contributions to their communities and our wider collective history. Her Courage Rises is full of inspirational female role models and insights into the trailblazing women who made history in BC and the Yukon.
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Canadian travel and geography
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Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by…
no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated before being able to finally obtain a life where threats and danger are no longer a part of their everyday existence. Key Text Features: author's note captions chapters character drawings comic map dialogue flags further information illustrations introduction maps writing inspiration Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
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Canadian travel and geography
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"Au grand plaisir des milliers de lecteurs qui ont dévoré son recueil Mes histoires paru en octobre 2018, Jean Chrétien…
reprend la plume pour raconter d'autres épisodes de sa longue et prestigieuse carrière politique. Il n'a pas écrit ses mémoires, rappelle-t-il, ou encore un livre d'histoire. Il s'agissait plutôt de coucher sur papier toutes ces anecdotes et ces souvenirs qu'il aime partager avec ses proches. Dans plusieurs récits, l'humour est au rendez-vous. Jean Chrétien en profite aussi pour rendre hommage à des amis et ex-collègues, chefs d'État ou acteurs de l'ombre. Aux histoires tirées de ses années de vie publique, l'ex-premier ministre a ajouté cette fois quelques chroniques et réflexions inspirées de l'actualité des dernières années."
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Canadian travel and geography, Sports biography, Hockey
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After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gretzky is known as "The…
Great One." Born in Brantford, Ontario, on January 26, 1961, in a nation obsessed with the sport, he threw himself into the game practically from the time he first laced up a pair of skates. When he retired from the NHL in 1999, he had led several teams to Stanley Cup victories, competed in the Olympics, and changed the way hockey was played forever. Known for his love for family and as a truly decent human being, Wayne Gretzky is revealed as more than a sports legend in this easy-to-read biography
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Inspirational and family life, Travel and geography, Adventure and exploration, Sports and games, Science and technology, Canadian travel and geography, United States travel and geography
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In 1998, Dan Stephens, canoeing in Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park, fell as he was portaging and became lost. In 1981,…
Jason Rasmussen, on a solo trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, stepped away from campsite and became lost. Griffith writes each of the accounts: two men lost in the wilderness who survived using their own skills. Adult. Unrated
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Adventure and exploration, Canadian non-fiction, Sports and games, Canadian travel and geography, United States travel and geography
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A modern adventure story of the author's journey with three companions down the length of the Yukon River, starting on…
a raft at Lake Bennett on the Yukon Territory's border with British Columbia in July, 1972. After one winter's layoff the trip ends on cross-country skis at Emmonak on the Bering Sea in 1974. For Tryck, the river trip was a recreation of his grandfather's travels through the Yukon and Alaska seventy-five years earlier. Some strong language. 1980.
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Canadian travel and geography, Biography
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Meet Mary Ann Shadd: anti-slavery activist, newspaper publisher, and social justice pioneer!The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives…
of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed.Mary Ann Shadd was born free in 1823 in Delaware. Her parents were abolitionists, and their home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Her family moved to Canada in 1851 after the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted, and as a young woman, Shadd became a trailblazer in every realm she touched — opening a desegregated school in Chatham, Ontario; becoming the first Black female newspaper publisher in North America with the Provincial Freeman; becoming a suffrage activist; and at the age of 60 earning a law degree to become one of the first Black women to practice law!Mary Ann was truly remarkable, for her time or any other, unafraid to speak up and fight for equal rights — for Black people, for women and for everybody.Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Mary Ann Shadd couples simple yet compelling writing with comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring her fascinating story to life!
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General non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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A is for Arctic, B for Bering Sea, C for Clyde River – and Z for Zangeza Bay – all to be explored above the 60th parallel.
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Science and technology, Canadian travel and geography, General non-fiction, Travel and geography
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The author of Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey (RC 32611) recounts his year of train travel across Canada, which…
ended with the Canadian's final run eastward from Vancouver. Pindell shows that the development of the railroad played an integral role in the history of Canada, just as it did in the United States. He includes personal observations about the landscape, people, separatism, and nostalgia
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Biography, United States history, Women biography, Canadian travel and geography
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In 1892, widowed fifty-three-year- old DeGraf is concerned when her son fails to return from a two- week trip to…
the Yukon. Packing her sewing machine to provide income along the way, DeGraf leaves her Seattle home and sets out to find him. She proves hardier than many of the men who turn back. DeGraf describes in her memoirs the highlights of what turned out to be a twenty-five-year stay on the Yukon frontier. Some violence. 1992
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Science and technology, General non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography
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The St. Lawrence Seaway connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes that lie on the border between Canada and…
the United States. A joint project of those two nations, the Seaway is a computer-operated system nearly 2,500 miles long. The author traces the history of this inland waterway from the 1500s, when Europeans searched for a direct route to the Orient, to the days of the modern system. For grades 2-4
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Canadian travel and geography
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Mon amour du Québec n'est pas nationaliste si l'on entend par là que je placerais la nation au-dessus de tout,…
que je serais incapable de reconnaître ses tares, au passé comme au présent, ou encore que je serais obsédé par sa différence, sa distinction, sa spécificité. Reconnaître que le Québec est un cas unique dans l'histoire des Amériques, que sa situation linguistique fortement minoritaire au Canada et à plus forte raison sur le continent exige des politiques et motive un souci constant, être conscient des particularités de notre parcours historique – cela ne signifie aucunement que l'on doive se cantonner dans un provincialisme défensif et régressif qui en vient à considérer comme suspecte, voire péjorative, l'idée même d'un Québec ouvert, pluraliste, inclusif. À mes yeux, telle est pourtant l'idée de la nation qui colle le plus à sa réalité présente, et la seule apte à éviter sa stagnation et sa folklorisation
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Canadian travel and geography
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En évoquant le temps qui passe comme celui qui est passé, le temps suspendu de nos espérances comme les temps…
durs qui secouent l'actualité, Jean-François Nadeau s'attache à de menus détails de l'existence – les montres ou les vêtements que l'on porte, le chant d'une communauté d'Inuits dans l'Arctique, un livre qu'il a lu, le souvenir de faits historiques oubliés – afin de mieux sonder les servitudes de notre époque et rappeler que les chemins que l'histoire emprunte ne sont jamais tracés à l'avance
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Social issues, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography
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Un quartier connaît plusieurs vies successives. Ainsi, à Montréal, après avoir longtemps hébergé des populations ouvrières, le Plateau Mont-Royal et,…
plus récemment, Saint-Henri, se sont mis à accueillir des ménages de plus en plus aisés. Qu'advient-il des populations originelles ? Elles sont évincées, de manière directe, notamment avec les « rénovictions », ou indirecte, parce qu'elles ne peuvent pas, par exemple, se permettre de fréquenter les nouveaux commerces alors que les anciens ferment les uns après les autres. Le privilège de siroter un latté à l'avoine sur une terrasse à deux pas de son plex ou de sa shoebox n'est pas donné à tout le monde…
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Short stories, Multi-cultural fictionCanadian travel and geography
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Seven short stories about active imaginations and making choices. In the title piece, two girls find themselves in a dilemma…
after pretending they know a tragic story about the cook at their favorite burger place. For grades 5-8. 1999
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History, Canadian travel and geography
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Describes the nation of Canada, which shares its border with the United States. Includes geography and history, government and people,…
arts and leisure, as well as its relations with America. For grades 5-8. 1998