Personal Memoirs

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Digital Legacy Plan

From online banking to decades worth of digital family photos, copious creative or intellectual property, or personal history documented on social media, we all have a widespread digital footprint that ...

Being Chinese in Canada

By (author) William Ging Wee Dere
Categories: Biography: general

Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.

Sea Over Bow

By (author) Linda Kenyon
Categories: Memoirs

When her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon vowed to never risk a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man who convinced her to sail across the ocean with him. There are the ...

Emperor's Orphans, The

By (author) Sally Ito
Categories: Second World War

From the shadows of postwar Canada and Japan to the vast Canadian prairies of the new millennium, The Emperor’s Orphans explores cultural identity through movements of place and voice. The story Sally ...

Flawed

From the Emmy-nominated, NFB, PBS-aired animated short, Flawed is a true story of self-acceptance.

The Suitcase and the Jar

By (author) Becky Livingston
Categories: Memoirs

When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional turn. Rachel, an avid traveller, had one wish: to keep exploring the ...

Excessive Force

By (author) Alok Mukherjee & Tim Harper
Categories: Biography: general

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

Wild Fierce Life

By (author) Joanna Streetly
Categories: Memoirs

Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping and vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woman’s evolving place within it. Streetly’s vivid storytelling evokes a sincere respect for nature, ...

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War and became the co-founder of what would soon become multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. / Ruey Yu évite la famine qui déferle ...

The World's Most Travelled Man

By (author) Mike Spencer Bown
Categories: Memoirs

The World’s Most Travelled Man is an eye-opening account of the universal human experience as seen from each corner of the changing world. Blending a romantic connection to nature through solitude and ...