Listening to Old Woman Speak

By (author) Laura Smyth Groening
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Yours, Al

By (author) Al Purdy
Edited by Sam Solecki
Categories: Diaries, letters and journals

In this fascinating and funny collection of correspondence, Canada’s greatest poet lets it all hang out in spirited private exchanges with Pierre Trudeau, Carol Shields, Earle Birney, Anna Porter, Charles ...

Leacock on Life

By (author) Estate of Stephen Leacock
Edited by Gerald Lynch
Categories: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Canadian cultural icon Stephen Leacock was as wise and witty as he was prolific, and as sharp as he was humane. A professor of political economy, author, and social critic, Leacock has long been considered ...

Canadian Culture

Edited by Elspeth Cameron
Categories: Social and cultural anthropology

The surest way to the hearts of a Canadian audience is to inform them that their souls are to be identified with rock, rapids, wilderness and virgin (but exploitable) forest. This critical statement no ...

Imagining Ourselves

By (author) Daniel Francis
Categories: Literary Collections

Imagining Ourselves gathers together selections from Canadian non-fiction books that in some way have had a major impact on how we view ourselves as Canadians, revealing how the national identity has been ...