Personal Memoirs

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Casting into Mystery

By (author) Robert Reid
By (artist) Wesley W Bates
Categories: Memoirs

In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall ...

Pourin' Down Rain

By (author) Cheryl Foggo
Categories: Biography: general

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...

Waiting for the Rain

Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of an exilic family life in Canada. Through memory fragments, flights of poetry, ...

Soulman

By (author) Rocky Johnson & Scott Teal
Categories: Wrestling

Though these days he’s known best as the Rock’s father, Rocky Johnson was one of the most successful wrestlers of the 1970s and 80s. Here he tells his story: homeless in Nova Scotia and Toronto at ...

South Away

By (author) Meaghan Marie Hackinen
Categories: Memoirs

South Away is an adventure story of the author’s bicycle trip with her sister from Terrace, BC, along the West coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Meaghan Marie Hackinen experiences apprehension ...

Reverberations

By (author) Marion Agnew
Categories: Coping with ageing

Most people think Alzheimer’s Disease is the same as memory loss, if they think about it at all, and hope that if they ignore it hard enough, it will go away. Marion Agnew’s world changed as her mother—a ...

Rising

By (author) Sharon Wood
Categories: Memoirs

In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without ...

Tiny Lights for Travellers

By (author) Naomi K. Lewis
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Wayfarer

When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. ...

Nitinikiau Innusi

Born into a traditional nomadic family, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue came to international attention in the 1980s and 1990s when she led protests against NATO’s occupation of Innu land in Labrador. ...

Creating a University

A collection of memoirs by more than 30 former faculty and staff of Memorial University—a series of “MUNographies,”—about personal and professional experiences working at Newfoundland’s only ...