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Conrad and Lady Black: dancing on the edge
By Tom Bower. 2006
The rise and fall of media tycoon Conrad Black is rivalled in its spectacular extravagance only by the machinations of…
his social climbing wife, Barbara Amiel. Theirs is a story of overwhelming ambition and greed. Living beyond his means, he plundered Hollinger, a public company, and was charged with fraud and corruption. 2006.Closer to the sun: an autobiography
By Marq De Villiers, Garth Drabinsky. 1995
Garth Drabinsky traces his life and career as Canada's most successful impresario. He talks about his early career as an…
entertainment lawyer, and adventures as a film producer who worked with Hollywood's greatest stars. He also discusses his role in Cineplex Odeon, and his recent work in the live entertainment business with shows like "Show Boat," "Kiss of the Spider Woman," and "The Phantom of the Opera." c1995.Canada's first nations: a history of founding peoples
By Olive Patricia Dickason. 1992
Dickason traces the history of Canada's first nations, from the earliest habitation of North America through European settlement and to…
the present. She discusses current issues and controversies, including Meech Lake, the Oka crisis, and the debate over self-government. 1992.Cold hard truth: on business, money & life
By Kevin O'Leary. 2011
Citizen Hughes: In His Own Words-how Howard Hughes Tried To Buy America
By Michael Drosnin. 1985
An account of millionaire Howard Hughes' last four years when he fought the Atomic Energy Commission, plotted to buy politicians,…
schemed against his business competitors and became even more disoriented. Shows Hughes' emotional instability during those years. 1985.Blood relations: the rise & fall of the du Ponts of Delaware
By Leonard Mosley. 1980
Captures the array of brilliant and eccentric characters that the powerful and tight-knit du Pont family has produced. Replete with…
suicides, insanity, love affairs, and political intrigue, this is a dramatic, somewhat sensational, story of an American dynasty. 1980.Campeau: the building of an empire
By Michael Babad, Catherine Mulroney. 1989
In January, 1988, Canadian businessman Robert Campeau stunned Wall Street with a hostile bid for Federated Department Stores, the parent…
of the famous Bloomingdale's chain. His biography describes a man who was born into a poor Sudbury family, and became a successful real estate developer. 1989.Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West
By Dee Alexander Brown. 1970
The author sets out to tell of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their…
own words whenever possible; of the greedy invaders, murdering and destroying Indians who had set out to live in peace with their white neighbours. 1970.Big Bear (Extraordinary Canadians)
By Rudy Wiebe. 2008
Big Bear was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of…
the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. 2008.As long as the rivers flow
By Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Connie Brissenden. 2005
It is Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an…
abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, helps the family prepare for a hunting and gathering trip. But soon, a truck comes to forcibly take Lawrence and his siblings away to their new school, which would try to erase their traditional language and culture. Grades 3-6. 2002.Back on the rez: finding the way home
By Brian Maracle. 1996
Forty years after moving away to the city, Mohawk writer Brian Maracle returned to the Six Nations Grand River Territory…
where he grew up. He writes about his first year "back on the rez," and the challenges of adapting to a way of life he had not known for decades. He tells of the search for his cultural and spiritual roots, and of the problems in a deeply divided community. c1996.Art, enterprise, and ethics: the life and works of William Morris
By Charles Harvey, Jon Press. 1996
William Morris' contributions to the worlds of art history and design, socialism and socialist thought, literary criticism and business were…
not always fully appreciated while he was alive, but a look backwards reveals a man of many achievements. Here his early influences and later accomplishments are examined in a series of essays, several of which were previously published in scholarly journals. 1996.Arrow through the heart: the life and times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow
By Greig Stewart. 1998
The life of Crawford Gordon, who led A.V. Roe Canada in the 1950s, and who drove the production of the…
Avro Arrow. Like the Arrow, Gordon's life rose quickly, promised great feats, but met his end tragically. 1998.Always fresh: the untold story of Tim Hortons by the man who created the Canadian cultural and business icon
By Robert Thompson, Ron Joyce. 2006
Ron Joyce tells the story of how he built the Tim Hortons empire before and after the death of the…
hockey star who started the franchise. Explains some of the key strategic decisions that fuelled the company's growth, celebrates the importance of hard work and discipline, and argues Mr. Joyce made a terrible mistake when he handed the operation over to the Wendy's restaurant chain and its founder Dave Thomas, rather than going public with an IPO. 2006.Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Atlantic
By Jennifer Niven. 2003
Ada Blackjack was an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman from Nome, Alaska, who signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret…
expedition to the far North, to colonize desolate Wrangel Island. When the expedition went wrong, Ada was left on her own but managed to return home, only to be tricked, exploited and hounded by journalists and others. A true story of a woman who survived a terrible time in the wild only to face a different ordeal in civilization. 2003.A two-spirit journey: the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder (Critical studies in Native history ; #18)
By Ma-Nee Chacaby, Mary Louisa Plummer. 2016
As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills…
from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people. 2016.A stranger at home: a true story
By Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2011
10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement - it's been two years since her parents delivered her to the…
school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. But Margaret soon realizes that she's an outsider in the Arctic - she's forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can't even stomach the food her mother prepares. As she struggles to reclaim her way of life, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people - and to herself. Sequel to "Fatty legs". Grades 4-7. 2011.A life in progress
By Conrad Black. 1993
Beginning with his school days and his years as a small town newspaper publisher, Canadian financier Conrad Black describes his…
rise to the head of an international media empire. Black comments on his controversial business dealings, personalities he has known, and his involvement in politics. 1993.A matter of principle
By Conrad Black. 2011
In 2004, Black was fired as chairman of Hollinger International after he and his associates were accused of fraud. He…
describes his indictment, four-month trial in Chicago, partial conviction, imprisonment, and largely successful appeal. Woven throughout are Black's views on politics, corporate governance, the U.S. justice system, friendships, his Roman Catholic faith, and his marriage to Barbara Amiel. c2011.A boy called Slow: the true story of Sitting Bull
By Joseph Bruchac. 1994
In the 1830s, parents in the Lakota Sioux tribe gave their children childhood names like Runny Nose and Hungry Mouth.…
Later when the child had grown and proven himself, he earned a new name. Returns Again named his boy Slow because he never did anything quickly. Slow hated his name and tried hard to earn a better one. At fourteen, Slow had a chance to show his bravery. Grades K-3. 1998, c1994.