Canadian nonfiction

  • The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: a bibliography

    Creator

    Irvine, Andrew David

    Rivère, Edmond

    Tolman, Stephanie

    Abstract

    Une bibliographie incontournable des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Antonine Maillet, Carol Shields, Marie-Claire Blais, Michael Ondaatje, Gilles Vigneault…  Les écrivains canadiens sont depuis longtemps encensés sur la scène nationale comme à l’échelle mondiale, et les Prix du Gouverneur général jouent un rôle clé dans la reconnaissance de certains de nos meilleurs auteurs, illustrateurs et traducteurs. La liste est impressionnante : ce prestigieux prix a récompensé 705 oeuvres entre 1936 et 2017.

    Publisher (Source)

    Ottawa

    University of Ottawa Press

    Non spécifié
  • Le quartier du Musée: histoire et architecture

    Creator

    Guitard, Michelle

    Abstract

    In Gatineau, the Quartier du Musée heritage neighbourhood regularly makes the news as it has been earmarked for large-scale development that would modernize the downtown area. Discover the 65 early-20th century buildings and their history.  The Quartier du Musée is located in front of the Canadian Museum of History in the Hull sector of the City of Gatineau.

    Publisher (Source)

    Ottawa

    University of Ottawa Press

    Non spécifié
  • Les prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada: une bibliographie

    Creator

    Irvine, Andrew David

    Rivère, Edmond

    Tolman, Stephanie

    Abstract

    Une bibliographie incontournable des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Antonine Maillet, Carol Shields, Marie-Claire Blais, Michael Ondaatje, Gilles Vigneault…  Les écrivains canadiens sont depuis longtemps encensés sur la scène nationale comme à l’échelle mondiale, et les Prix du Gouverneur général jouent un rôle clé dans la reconnaissance de certains de nos meilleurs auteurs, illustrateurs et traducteurs. La liste est impressionnante : ce prestigieux prix a récompensé 705 oeuvres entre 1936 et 2017.

    Publisher (Source)

    Ottawa

    University of Ottawa Press

    Non spécifié
  • Kayanerenkó:wa: the great law of peace

    Creator

    Williams, Kayanesenh Paul

    Abstract

    Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca — were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenkó:wa, the Great Law of Peace, they not only resolved intractable coinflicts, but also shaped a system of law and government that would maintain peace for generations to come. This law remains in place today in Haudenosaunee communities: an Indigenous legal system, distinctive, complex, and principled.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié
  • Report of an inquiry into an injustice: Begade Shutagot'ine and the Sahtu Treaty

    Creator

    Kulchyski, Peter

    Abstract

    "A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice" chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Despite their formal objections and boycott of the agreement, the band and their lands were included in the Sahtu Treaty, a modern comprehensive land claims agreement negotiated between the Government of Canada and the Sahtu Tribal Council, representing Dene and Metis peoples of the region.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié
  • Rooster town: the history of an urban Métis community, 1901–1961

    Creator

    Peters, Evelyn

    Stock, Matthew

    Werner, Adrian

    Abstract

    Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié
  • Inuit stories of being and rebirth: gender, shamanism, and the third sex

    Creator

    Saladin d'Anglure, Bernard

    Frost, Peter

    Lévi-Strauss, Claude

    Abstract

    Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. Through their words, and historical sources recorded by Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, Saladin d’Anglure examines the Inuit notion of personhood and its relationship to cosmology and mythology.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié
  • Stories of Oka: land, film, and literature

    Creator

    St. Amand, Isabelle

    Stewart, S.E.

    David Cree, Katsitsén:hawe Linda

    Abstract

    In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society had imagined was on the verge of disappearance. The 78-day standoff also reactivated a long history of Indigenous people’s resistance to colonial policies aimed at assimilation and land appropriation.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié
  • Structures of indifference: an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city

    Creator

    McCallum, Mary Jane Logan

    Perry, Adele

    Abstract

    Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    University of Manitoba Press

    Non spécifié