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  • Unbuilt Hamilton
    Author:

    Osbaldeston, Mark

    Summary:

    Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, p

    Genre: Art and architecture, Canadian nonfiction, Illustrated works

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  • Fifty Years Honouring Canadians The Order of Canada, 1967–2017
    Author:

    McCreery, Christopher

    Summary:

    This fully illustrated history traces the Order of Canada from its establishment in 1967 to its place today as a national honour.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle Brace for Impact / Air Canada / and 5 more
    Author:

    Pigott, Peter

    Summary:

    The Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle presents the high-flying insight of Peter Pigott, in a special collection chronicling the aviators, aircraft, and drama of over a century of Canadian f

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy
    Author:

    Walters, Evelyn

    Summary:

    An exploration into Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada’s most outstanding artists.

    Genre: Art and architecture, Canadian nonfiction, Illustrated works

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  • Canadians in Golden Age Hollywood 2-Book Bundle Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Stardust and Shadows
    Author:

    Foster, Charles

    Summary:

    Revisit Hollywood’s Golden Age with insider Charles Foster, who befriended the many Canadian stars that peppered the film sets.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • The Beaver Hall Group 2-Book Bundle The Women of Beaver Hall / The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy
    Author:

    Walters, Evelyn

    Summary:

    From the vanguard of Modernism in Montreal, the Beaver Hall Group included painters who are now ranked among Canada's most distinguished artists.

    Genre: Art and architecture, Canadian nonfiction, Illustrated works

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  • Skinheads, Fur Traders, and DJs An Adventure Through the 1970s
    Author:

    Champniss, Kim Clarke

    Summary:

    The true story of a legend of Canadian pop culture broadcasting and the way he got his start in the 1970s: working as a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Northwest Territories and then

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • Big League Babble On The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should Be Dead By Now
    Author:

    Gallagher, John

    Summary:

    Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest celebrities

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • Whatever It Takes Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
    Author:

    Stohn, Stephen

    ,

    Ward, Christopher

    ,

    Gero, Martin

    Summary:

    This book will change the way you think about success.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • The Canadian Kings of Repertoire The Story of the Marks Brothers
    Author:

    Taylor, Michael V.

    Summary:

    The Marks Brothers may well have been the most remarkable theatrical family in Canadian history.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • Emma Albani Victorian Diva
    Author:

    Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle

    ,

    Dunton, Darcy

    Summary:

    Born in Quebec, Emma Lajeunesse studied in Europe and in 1869 at the age of 23 launched her opera career in Italy. Almost overnight she became Albani, the world-renowned diva.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • John Grierson
    Author:

    Evans, Gary

    Summary:

    John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential personalities in film culture.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • Beyond Hope An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush
    Author:

    Boissery, Beverley

    ,

    Short, Bronwyn

    Summary:

    Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • A Calgary Album Glimpses of the Way We Were
    Author:

    Kozub, Mark

    ,

    Kozub, Janice

    Summary:

    Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • Overweight sensation : the life and comedy of Allan Sherman
    Author:

    Cohen, Mark

    Summary:

    Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Film, television and performing arts

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    • Publisher: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013, Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00
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      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 04/22/2016 - 12:00

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