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Letters with Smokie

Blindness and More-than-Human Relations

Rod Michalko (Author), Dan Goodley (Author)

Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (Editor), Höskuldur Thráinsson (Editor), Úlfar Bragason (Editor)

Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.

No Man's Land

The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, 1868-1954

Kathryn A. Young (Author), Sarah M. McKinnon (Author)

The life story of artist Mary Riter Hamilton (1868-1954) is one of tragedy and adventure, from homestead beginnings, to genteel drawing rooms in Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver, to Berlin and Parisian art schools, to Vimy and Ypres, and finally to illness and poverty. No Man’s Land is the first biographical study of Hamilton.

Pauline Boutal

An Artist's Destiny, 1894-1992

Louise Duguay (Author), S.E. Stewart (Translator)

Today a great number of Pauline Boutal’s works can be found in major private and corporate collections across Canada. For her contribution to the French culture and theatre in Canada, Boutal was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the Order of Canada.

Winnipeg's Great War

A City Comes of Age

Jim Blanchard (Author)

Winnipeg’s Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, Jim Blanchard brings us into the homes and public offices of Winnipeg and its citizens to illustrate the profound effect the war had on every aspect of the city.

Families, Lovers, and their Letters

Italian Postwar Migration to Canada

Sonia Cancian (Author)

In a micro-analysis of 400 private letters, Families, Lovers, and their Letters examines the experiences of Italian migrants to Canada and their loved ones left behind in Italy following the Second World War, when the largest migration of Italians to Canada took place.

Laura Peers (Author)

As a people who emerged, adapted, and survived in a climate of change, the western Ojibwa demonstrate both the effects of historic forces that acted upon Native peoples, and the spirit, determination, and adaptive strategies that the Native people have used to cope with those forces.

Travelling Passions

The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Gisli Palsson (Author), Keneva Kunz (Translator)

Alien Heart

The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence

Lyall Powers (Author)

Intimate Strangers

The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy

Margaret Laurence (Author), Gabrielle Roy (Author), Paul G. Socken (Editor)

With a thoughtful introduction by Paul G. Socken, these lovely and intimate letters record the moving, affectionate friendship between two remarkable women.

Icelanders in North America

The First Settlers

Jonas Thor (Author)

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to North and South America. Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, and census reports, Jonas Thor offers a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.

As Long as the Rivers Run

Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities

James B. Waldram (Author)

The Orders of the Dreamed

George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823

Jennifer S.H. Brown (Editor), Robert Brightman (Editor)