Canadian nonfiction

  • Westray : mon passage des ténèbres à la lumière

    Creator

    Theriault, Vernon

    Abstract

    Dans ce livre, Theriault décrit son expérience dans la mine du comté de Pictou, ses combats personnels à la suite du désastre et la façon dont il a donné un sens nouveau à sa vie en participant à la campagne de lobbying de longue haleine du Syndicat des Métallos, qui a mené à l'adoption de la Loi Westray en 2004.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Nimbus

    Not specified
  • Somebeachsomewhere : the harness racing legend from a one-horse stable

    Creator

    Simmins, Marjorie

    Abstract

    It's November 2006 and Brent MacGrath, a car salesman from Nova Scotia, has just had his first glimpse of a gorgeous yearling at the Lexington Yearling Sale--and his heart skips a beat. He takes another look. Even this young, the bay stallion has size and 'presence.' Against all odds, and with limited funds, MacGrath makes a successful bid for the colt.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Nimbus

    Not specified
  • Good burdens : how to live joyfully in the digital age

    Creator

    Crook, Christina

    Abstract

    It’s time we choose joy over fear. Empowerment over anxiety. JOMO over FOMO. How do we get there? By taking up good burdens. The things we’re most proud of in life—the child we’re raising; the marathon we completed; the major project we hit out of the park—these required all of us: all of our attention, all of our love, all of our effort. Could we control the outcome? No. Were we all in? Hell, yes.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Nimbus

    Not specified
  • Clary Croft : my charmed life in music, art, and folklore

    Creator

    Croft, Clary

    Abstract

    Folklorist, recording artist, actor, songwriter, broadcaster, storyteller, author, archivist, artisan, and designer: over a career spanning more than fifty years, Clary Croft has woven the threads of his vast array of talents into a tapestry that has enveloped the life of an artist, and in the process he’s become a household name in Nova Scotia and beyond.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Nimbus

    Not specified
  • The philosophy of gardening : essays

    Abstract

    For philosophizing gardeners and anyone who likes to pick up a spade and get their hands dirty. Gardeners discover a new world every year-whether they're cultivating heirloom vegetables, foraging for wild herbs, creating a small permaculture garden on a city balcony, or maintaining a plot for self-sufficiency. But why garden at all? These personal essays by writers, designers, and master gardeners dig into gardening's philosophical dimensions and tend to the aesthetic, cultural, political, and sociological implications of gardens and the people who keep them.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Invisible Publishing

    Not specified
  • My daughter Rehtaeh Parsons

    Creator

    Canning, Glen

    Abstract

    One of Indigo's Best Books of 2021 So FarRehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. But her life was derailed when she went to a friend's house for a sleepover and the two of them dropped by at a neighbour's house, where a group of boys were having a party. The next day, one of the boys circulated a photo on social media: it showed Rehtaeh half naked, with a boy up against her. She had no recollection of what had happened. For 17 months, Rehtaeh was shamed from one school to the next.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Goose Lane Editions

    Not specified
  • Alexa! : changing the face of Canadian politics

    Creator

    Kimber, Stephen

    Abstract

    Alexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she helped transform Nova Scotian and Canadian politics. In the process, she transcended party affiliation and gender to become simply "Alexa" to Canadians across the country.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Goose Lane Editions

    Not specified
  • Always pack a candle : a nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin

    Creator

    McKinnon Crook, Marion

    Abstract

    The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community of Williams Lake in BC's Cariboo region.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Heritage House

    Not specified
  • Time to wonder : a kid's guide to BC's regional museums, volume 1 : Thompson-Okanagan, Kootenay, Cariboo-Chilcotin

    Creator

    Buxton, Lesley

    Harper, Suzanne

    Abstract

    Go on… be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time to Wonder series give adventurous families a backstage pass to explore behind the scenes in regional museums throughout British Columbia.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    RMB | Rocky Mountain Books

    Not specified