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Growing Up Canadian
Canada and its Youth Come of Age 1960-1980
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The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country. Chapters range from TV to sports,...
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Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925-1965)
Reflections of a Pioneer
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Edward C. Webster was one of the earliest vocational guidance and industrial psychologists in Canada. He opened his practice in 1936 and was also a long-time professor of psychology and university administrator. During the last decade of his...
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Gooseberries Have Thorns
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Gooseberries Have Thorns chronicles everyday experiences, relationships, and major events in the lives of Maggie’s ancestors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The narrative focuses primarily on Maggie and how she navigates various...
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Three Cell Flashlight
A Life of Service in the RCMP
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A story of a young man leaving his home town in Prince Edward Island to train as a cadet in the RCMP Academy in Regina Saskatchewan. Hank becomes an RCMP officer and is stationed in various towns across the east coast of Canada, where he...
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Memories of Turtle Lake
The Story of Sunset View Beach
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Memories of Turtle Lake and the Story of Sunset View Beach tells the story of an idyllic community in Northwest Saskatchewan from its first wave of doomed homesteaders in the early 1900s through to its success as a residential lake community...
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Nii Ndahlohke
Boys' and Girls' Work at Mount Elgin Industrial School, 1890-1915
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This book takes its title from the phrase for “I work” in Lunaape, the traditional language of Munsee Delaware people, and was inspired by the work of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. Written for the descendants and communities of...
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Valiant Be
A Memoir of Fortitude in the Face of Adversity
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Valiant Be is a remarkable memoir of pain and resilience, and a gripping history of a family that is at once dysfunctional and deeply loving. Heather’s earliest memories revolved around her parents’ purchase and refurbishment of a gristmill...
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Indomitable Canadian Filipinos
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In the 70- year history of Filipino migration to Canada, their number has increased from 770 in 1964 to about a million in 2021. Yet no book has been written and published in Canada about the Filipino community in its entirety. This book fills...
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I Heard the Turkki Call My Name
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Growing up in a broken home during the turbulent 1970s wasn’t easy, particularly if you were a city kid marooned in Northern British Columbia. One castaway, Mike Turkki, survived his childhood shipwreck and made it out alive. Now he’s ready to...
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The Job To Be Done
A Son's Journey Into The Story Of A WW2 Bomber Command Aircrew
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A unique blend of historical narrative and personal memoir, this is the powerful true story of seven young men, including the author’s father, who served in Bomber Command in World War Two. Based on a pilot’s logbook and years of research, this...
