Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Untraced From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Conversations with Singh’s father while visiting in Edmonton. The struggle and process of getting him to open up and recount past events.	Jaspreet Singh	32	2021	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Untrammelled Landscapes From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Four focuses on Louise’s move to Canada. The chapter explores Louise’s joining of the Canadian Red Cross Outpost Service, her settling in Bonfield, Northern Ontario, her …	Merilyn Simonds	27	2022	$2.70 Add
From Unwed, Not Dead From: The M Word View Goose Lane Editions	Myrl Coulter reflects on her youth in 1967 Winnipeg, teen pregnancy, unmarried mothers, adoption, boarding homes for unwed mothers, music, the Canadian Criminal Code, and more.	Myrl Coulter	17	2014	$1.70 Add
NEW! Up the Coast One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia NeWest Press	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
From NEW! Upping the Ante RCAP and a Landmark Court Decision From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	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
From Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties Toronto From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	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
From KillJoy’s Kastle Allyson Mitchell’s Vision From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	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
From NEW! Verna Johnston, Nokomis HOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto View Coach House Books	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
From NEW! verzen/verses From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	In this chapter, the author writes about coming to appreciate the subtle qualities of English.	Sadiqa de Meijer	6	2020	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Victims People From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	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
From NEW! Views from the Fifth Community and Sovereighty: Section 3 From: Qummut Qukiria! View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter explores what reconciliation between the north and the south of Canada means.	Joshua Stribbell	5	2022	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Vision From: Tracking the Caribou Queen View NeWest Press	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
From NEW! Visions of Woodpeckers From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Thirteen focuses on Louise’s work with woodpeckers.	Merilyn Simonds	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Volunteers Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office View Between The Lines	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
From Vượt Biên From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He executes an escape plan.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From NEW! waarschuwing/warning From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	"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