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La solitude, la paix intérieure, l'amour du pays, la passion de la chasse et de la trappe, la bonté pour ses compagnons de route - les humains et les chiens la détermination, le goût de vivre sont au cœur de ce récit d'un héros du Grand-Nord.

Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante. Face à la menace grandissante des trafiquants d'alcool et des brigands régnant sur l'Ouest américain, la mise en place d'une force de police devient rapidement nécessaire pour assurer l'ordre et la sécurité dans la vaste étendue des prairies et des régions du Nord. C'est ainsi qu'est créée la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest en 1873, chargée de faire régner une justice impartiale.

Ce livre de la collection « À la découverte du Canada » redonne vie à une époque mémorable, celle d'un Canada habité par les autochtones avant l'arrivée des Européens. Qui sont ces peuples? Où habitaient-ils? Quels étaient leurs légendes, leurs mythes, leurs héros et leur divinité? Les Premières nations permet aux jeunes lecteursd'apprendre de façon interactive et amusante. On y apprend à construire une maison longue typiquement iroquoise, à jouer à un jeu inuit, à créerson propre totem et bien plus encore...

Le 23 juin 2018, dans le nord de la Thaïlande, au cœur du Triangle d'Or, 12 joueurs de l'équipe de soccer des Sangliers âgés de 11 à 17 ans et leur entraîneur disparaissent à l'intérieur de la grotte de Tham Luang, une des plus vastes et mystérieuses du pays. Une opération de sauvetage impliquant 10 000 volontaires venus de Thaïlande et du monde entier va permettre 10 jours plus tard de retrouver, affamés mais vivants, les 13 Sangliers réfugiés dans une cavité à 3 kilomètres de l'entrée.

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. This skilfully told first-person account is more than a disaster narrative: Greenwood's experience and skill as a journalist and a mystery writer engages and maintains suspense.

The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleay, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range the Texas System ranches failed. Beginning in 1923, Maxine and Dorothy Macleay edited, reported, and published The Rocking P Gazette, a monthly newspaper grounded in the daily life of the Rocking P Ranch.

The history of Branching Out, Canada's first national magazine of second-wave feminism, is the surprising story of an upstart magazine published on the prairies that was read from coast to coast. It is an Edmonton-based story of political activism, feminist community-building, and survival in the cultural industries. When it ceased publication in 1980, Branching Out had reached more readers than any other Canadian second-wave feminist periodical.

The book is an account of how the Spanish flu pandemic affected several communities in Labrador. Although several populations were nearly wiped out, the Innu people of Labrador are barely present in the written record, and when included, their experience is often misunderstood. Budgell has scoured diaries, letters, medical records, shipping logs, and first-hand accounts of the period to redress this exclusion and shed light on the tragic loss of life that occurred 100 years ago.

Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful and devastating stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and related reform "schools" operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Their narratives include one teenager's experience in a Good Shepherd training school in Toronto, Canada; one story of a child born into a Canadian Good Shepherd laundry; and three accounts of adolescent girls incarcerated in Good Shepherd Magdalene laundries in Ireland and Australia.

In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these whalemen in the North would irrevocably alter the lives of Inuit.