Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Buffalo BillFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about his great Uncle William Goldbloom (Buffalo Bill) who was a fur trader in Prince Rupert BC who he met in the late 1940s | Richard B. Goldbloom | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Building MomentumPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Building Momentum Nash explores ways to build and maintain momentum during an election. The chapter explores topics such as maximizing momentum, learning indicators, use of endorsements, help … | Peggy Nash | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Building relationships: better the second time aroundPART 3 LIFE AFTER LEADING: THE NERVE TO REDEFINE YOURSELF From: Nerve |
This chapter reflects on the authors experiences building new friendships and relationships and how to reprioritize old relationships after a leadership role ends. | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  ‘We Are Your Children Too!’: How Toronto’s Children’s Aid Society Learned to Support Queer YouthFrom: Any Other Way |
John McCullagh identifies several systemic barriers for aid societies to support LGBTQ youth and how those barriers can be overcome. | John McCullagh | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Building Your TeamPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Building Your Team Nash explains how to build a campaign team. The chapter discusses politics as a team sport, forming your inner circle, diversity in your team, payment, and the key team … | Peggy Nash | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
 Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography)Revolutionary |
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley “Rocky” Jones is one of Canada’s most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada’s Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly … | Burnely “Rocky” Jones; James W.St.G. Walker | 280 | 2016 | View |
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From  BurnoutPart 5: Surfacing From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 13 follows Brunet’s move to Montreal and time at Paradis. Topics discussed include night shift versus day shifts, aging as a stripper, bachelor parties, getting suspended, race and … | Cid V Brunet | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Butter BunsFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Call You by Your Name |
In “Call You by Your Name” the author delves into their relationship with Lucky. Discussing relationships, cheating, bush life, camp relationships, abuse, manipulation, sex, shame, … | Lori Fox | 73 | 2022 | $7.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Calling It QuitsFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Ten focuses on the twilight years of the logging camp, struggles with machinery, injuries on the job, the death of an employee at her fathers camp, her parents first international holiday … | Kathryn Willcock | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Camp GursFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter details Arendt’s internment in a French "enemy alien" camp. When France fell, Arendt left the camp on foot. | Ann Heberlein | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Canada and Hungarian Refugees: The Historical Context |
Fifty years after the event, the Canadian program of refugee intake following the abortive Hungarian uprising of 1956 is recalled as a pivotal moment in Canadian immigration history. And it was … | Harold Troper | 18 | 2010 | $2.34 Add |
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From  Canada’s ColonyStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Three of this title, entitled "Emperor of the North" discuss Hodgson’s growing power and influence in the communities of the Northwest Territories. Topics … | Jake Ootes | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! CanvassingPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Canvassing Nash discusses canvassing. The chapter discusses what canvassing can be, who is is for, canvassing strategy, and even provides her own 12 tips for canvassing. | Peggy Nash | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Capacity Building #1Healing and Connecting with Our Selves |
"The more I’m securely connected to myself. The more I can risk connecting with others, getting involved in the Gabriola Commons, committing to endless meetings of the Covenant Team. … | Heather Menzies | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From Capacity Building #2Healing, Habitats, and Reconnecting with Nature |
At its simplist, a commons is a habitat of interrelationships bound by mutuality: mutual obligation and mutual sef-interest and also, hopefully, affinity. | Heather Menzies | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
