"On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,057 passengers and a crew of 420. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner ...
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"Tomma, a young Iroquois voyageur, signs his first contract with the Hudson's Bay Company. Does his loyalty lie with the almighty Bay or with his love of freedom? For Governor George Simpson, profits always come first, but for the Iroquois and Canadien voyageurs, this is their li...
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half-human and half-vampire, who is preparing to be a guardian at St. Vladimir's Academy. Her destiny is to protect the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires from the evil, immortal Strigoi vampires.
When it's suspected that her big-pharma client's vaccine has caused a mysterious illness affecting a handful of teenaged girls, high-powered attorney, Joanna Hanley, returns to her hometown of Millwood to quickly and quietly settle the case. But when she's forced to go up against...
"Now in its second edition, Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada is an authentic collection of two dozen readings, written primarily by Indigenous scholars, examining the impact of racism and the obligations of Indigenous peoples and settler colonialists in terms of und...
"In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff and teachers inflicted on students. Even as...
"An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America's northern grasslands"-- Provided by publisher.
A visceral expression of humanity's incursions on the planet and an urgent cry to acknowledge humankind's responsibility. Anthropocene is a multidisciplinary body of work by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, which includes a photobook, a major traveling...
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that lef...
"A personal account of one man's confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation threatened by the Trans Mountain pipeline. It Stops Here is the story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to re...
"Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and following Cana...
Canada has a rich tradition of frightening paranormal activity from one end of the country to the other. Beginning with British Columbia, you will find White Rock Players Club, a 100 year old playhouse that has more than its share of ghostly characters. The Four-Mile House, an up...
Catharina Bach is ignored and frightened by her father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach but fascinated by his Concerto for Two Violins. Three hundred years later Hannah Waters is trying to cope with her mother's death three years earlier and her move from Toronto to Clear Lake...
By 1942 most of Europe was under the heel of the Nazis. Only the United Kingdom remained free to oppose them. Knowing Britain needed supplies from overseas, the German navy built a large fleet of U-boats to hunt merchant ships. It was up to Canada to protect all shipping from Nor...