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Playing with Memories is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. It offers perspectives on his career to date, from the early experimentation of The Dead Father (1986) to the intensely intimate revelations of My Winnipeg (2007).

The Polar Bear: Lord of the Great North, the newest effort from award-winning photographer and author Mike Grandmaison, takes its readers on a thrilling expedition in the low Arctic to locate and admire the great white bear in all its majesty. With only his equipment and his perspicacious eye, Mike set out to a unique part the great Canadian wilderness--Manitoba's Churchill region--to track down this fearsome predator in its natural habitat, in order to capture the magnificent photographs featured in this book.

The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source quotes, biographical details, vocabulary, activities and games. Enter the world of the fur traders and the First Peoples of Canada - when the quest for beaver pelts was opening up the Canadian frontier.

For many years until his death in 1995, Kelly Clark was a well-known part of the Winnipeg art world. This book reproduces work from many periods of Clark's career. It also includes essays by George Swinton, Arthur Adamson and Donalda Johnson which discuss some of the different facets of Clark's life and work.

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context.

Manitoba’s ninety-three species of fish give the province the third most diverse fish population in Canada. The province’s variety of geological features, with its major lakes, rivers, tributaries, and watersheds, is due in large part to its history as the basin for Glacial Lake Agassiz. This, combined with its access to the waters of Hudson Bay and large American river systems, has provided habitat for a wide diversity of freshwater fish.

At the start of the Second World War, Poland was invaded by both the German and the Soviet armies. The country was unable to withstand the assaults and thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians were shipped to labour camps and prisons, where starvation, disease, and mistreatment were their daily expectations. With the signing of an amnesty between the Polish and Soviet governments in 1942, many of these soldiers were engaged in rebuilding the Polish army, and travelled through the Mideast to fight in the Italian campaign.

Le beau-livre La Cathédrale de Saint-Boniface retrace l'histoire des six églises et cathédrales de Saint-Boniface au Manitoba depuis la fondation de la mission en 1818. Les photos contemporaines du photographe primé, Michel Grandmaison, viennent compléter les photos d'archives et les pans d'histoire présentés par l'auteure Joanne Therrien.

Description de la vie et des coutumes des voyageurs, accompagnées d’exercices pédagogiques. Illustrations de Réal Bérard.

The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source quotes, biographical details, vocabulary, activities and games. The Vikings deals with the earliest period of European exploration of Canada...Who were these adventurers? Where did they travel? What gods inspired them? Where did they live? How did they dress? What sports did they play?