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John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool

John Lennon was the world’s biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of … 250 View
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Korea and European Union Trade Agreements

Korea and European Union Trade Agreements

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

An account of Canada’s trade negotiations with South Korea and the EU during the Stephen Harper administration (2006 to 2015). Assesses agreements like the Canada‑European Union … 19 $1.90 Add
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Locating and Re-locating

Locating and Re-locating

From: At Home

Chapter 1 focuses on author and artist Lezli Rubin-Kunda, who speaks on her own experiences with belonging, her art, and her sense of home as both a Canadian and Israeli. 13 $1.30 Add
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Mapping the Territory

Mapping the Territory

From: At Home

Chapter 9 features interviews with Victoria Stanton, Sandra Rechico, Gwen MacGregor, Ellen Moffat, Kim Morgan, and Peter Dykhuis. This chapter focuses on finding home in oneself, where art … 18 $1.80 Add
More Lost Massey Lectures

More Lost Massey Lectures

Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the … 417 View
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Mythical Landscapes

Mythical Landscapes

From: At Home

Chapter 3 is an interview with Amalie Atkins. This chapter focuses on how childhood landscapes can be a powerful trigger for creativity, even if one does not continue to reside there. 10 $1.00 Add
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No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

From: At Home

Chapter 2 features interviews with Simon Frank, Nicole Fournier, and Susan Feindel. The chapter focuses on artists who live in and create art out of their childhood surroundings. 21 $2.10 Add
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Portrait of a Publisher
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Portrait of a Publisher

Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

Nineteen sixty-eight was a tremendously eventful year for publisher Jack McClelland and his publishing house, McClelland & Stewart. On the one hand, spurred by funding opportunities initiated … 19 $1.90 Add
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Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction

Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction

From: The Imaginary Indian

Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … ; 43 $4.30 Add
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Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … ; 43 $1.72 Add
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Queer Nation?

Queer Nation?

From: In a Queer Country

"Queer Nation?" offer s an historical overview of gay and lesbian practices in Canada, with some suggestions that they reflect a nation al character. The approach of the article was … 25 $0.50 Add
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Red Coats and Redskins.

Red Coats and Redskins.

From: The Imaginary Indian

The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … 45 $4.50 Add
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Red Coats and Redskins.

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … 45 $1.80 Add
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Redesigning Wreck:

Redesigning Wreck:

Beach Meets Forest as Location of Male Homoerotic Culture & Placemaking in Pacific Canada

From: In a Queer Country

Gordon Brent Ingram turns to a place in which gay men both define their identities through an assertion of territory and engage in the sexuality that makes them what they are. This essay … 26 $0.52 Add
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Right Here, Right Now

Right Here, Right Now

From: At Home

Chapter 8 features an interview with Stan Krzyzanowski. This chapter discusses artists who are inspired by the details of day-to-day life and who explore how the place where one lives can create … 9 $0.90 Add
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival in Toronto
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival in Toronto

From: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool

This chapter investigates the rest of the summer of 1967 following the Montreal Bed-in. It discusses John and Yoko’s travels throughout Canada, the notable Canadians who they met and the … 46 $4.60 Add