Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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![]() NEW! Up the CoastOne Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia |
Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and … | Kathryn Willcock | 224 | 2022 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Upping the AnteRCAP and a Landmark Court Decision From: Unsettling Canada |
Upping the Ante explores the nationwide reaction to the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) report and all 440 of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommendations amongst … | Arthur Manuel | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties TorontoFrom: Any Other Way |
Karen Chan recounts the eventful week leading up to her twenty third birthday in August, 1998. | Karen B.K. Chan | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() KillJoy’s Kastle Allyson Mitchell’s VisionFrom: Any Other Way |
Jane Farrow discusses the KillJoy Kastle, a performance driven art installation in Toronto in the fall of 2013. | Jane Farrow | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Verna Johnston, NokomisHOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto |
The story of Verna Johnston (Nokomis), who founded an Indigenous-run boarding house in Toronto and helped to create the Indigenous community that we know today in Toronto. | Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! verzen/versesFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
In this chapter, the author writes about coming to appreciate the subtle qualities of English. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Victims PeopleFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of … | Tamara Cherry | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Views from the FifthCommunity and Sovereighty: Section 3 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This chapter explores what reconciliation between the north and the south of Canada means. | Joshua Stribbell | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Vision |
The chapter reflects on Margie’s recounting of the 1964 Caribou Carnival and the Caribou Queen, learning what stretching formula meant, her relationships with her mother, a baby in a parka, … | Margaret Macpherson | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Visions of WoodpeckersFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Thirteen focuses on Louise’s work with woodpeckers. | Merilyn Simonds | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! VolunteersPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Volunteers Nash explores why people volunteer and the role they play in elections. The chapter explores the motives for volunteering, where to find volunteers, who can be a volunteer, … | Peggy Nash | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Vượt Biên |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He executes an escape plan. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! waarschuwing/warningFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
"Mother tongue, is this when you’ll surface, under cover of night, in the mind’s somnolent dark?" | Sadiqa de Meijer | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Wake Up CallStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … | Jake Ootes | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
![]() Walking Away from HateOur Journey through Extremism |
As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white … | Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 240 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Wanda’s WarAn Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal |
In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans … | 256 | View |

















