Canadian nonfiction

  • In order to live untroubled : Inuit of the central Arctic, 1550-1940

    Creator

    Fossett, Renée

    Abstract

    Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the 16th to the 20th centuries remains largely undescribed and unexplained. In Order to Live Untroubled helps fill this 400-year gap by providing the first, broad, historical survey of the Inuit peoples of the central arctic.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, Man.

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Slytod

    Creator

    Thorneycroft, Diana

    Abstract

    This is a representation of slytod, the controversial 1997 multimedia installation by Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft. It features photographs from the exhibit and three critical essays about the artist's work and approach. "'slytod' refers to a tag game that my siblings and I used to play at night when we were children living on a military base in the heart of the Black Forest in Germany. Years later, I learned that 'tod' means death in German, and it is the notion of playing tag with death that permeates the installation."-Diana Thorneycroft

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    Gallery 1.1.1., School of Art, University of Manitoba

    Not specified
  • Winnipeg modern : architecture, 1945-1975

    Abstract

    Founded in 1913, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba was one of the earliest architecture programs in Canada. With a reputation for providing a solid Beaux-Arts education, and with the promotion of John A. Russell to the position of Dean, the school became a leader in North America for disseminating Modernist principles. Russell, an American trained at MIT, immediately began hiring first-rate faculty internationally, including James Donahue, who studied under Gropius at Harvard; Wolfgang Gerson, who trained in Bristol; and the Scottish Jim Christie.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, Man.

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Dictionary of Manitoba biography

    Creator

    Bumsted, J. M.

    Abstract

    Manitoba has been at the crossroads of many of the important debates and events in Canadian history. From the early fur trade to the Riel Rebellion to the Winnipeg General Strike, Manitobans have frequently played crucial roles in Canadian and sometimes world history. Until now, there has been no comprehensive, contemporary source for information on the many Manitobans who have left their mark on history and society.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, Man.

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Perspectives of Saskatchewan

    Abstract

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, Saskatchewan was one of the fastest growing provinces in the country. In the early 1900s, it revolutionized the Canadian political landscape and gave rise to socialist governments that continue to influence Canadian politics today. It was the birthplace of Canada’s publicly funded health care system, and home to a thriving arts and literary community that helped define western Canadian culture.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg [Man.]

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers

    Creator

    Anderson, Mark Cronlund

    Abstract

    The authors (professors of history and art history at the U. of Regina, Canada) conduct a discourse analysis of how Canada's indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian newspapers from the sale of Hudson's Bay Company lands to Canada in 1869 through to 2009, arguing that the newspapers have been and continue to be steered by the colonial imagery with respect to Canada's indigenous.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg [Man.]

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Le petit Gabi : dictionnaire des anglicismes du Canada français

    Creator

    Gaborieau, Antoine

    Abstract

    Voici une référence incontournable pour ceux et celles qui s’intéressent à la langue française en usage dans la francophonie canadienne. L’ouvrage est le résultat de plusieurs années d’effort et d’observation du professeur à la retraite Antoine Gaborieau. Cette cueillette de mots et de locutions empruntés à la langue de Shakespeare contient plus de 2500 anglicismes à corriger.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Saint-Boniface, Man.

    Plaines

    Not specified
  • The dog's children : Anishinaabe texts told by Angeline Williams

    Creator

    Williams, Angeline

    Abstract

    These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, Manitoba

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Intimate strangers : the letters of Margaret Laurence & Gabrielle Roy

    Creator

    Laurence, Margaret

    Abstract

    The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her widely acclaimed The Diviners, for which she won her second Governor-General’s Award, and Roy had returned to the centre of the literary stage with a series of books that many critics now consider her richest and most mature works. Although both women had been born and raised in Manitoba —Laurence in Neepawa and Roy in St.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, Man.

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified