Canadian Studies Collection

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Spirits of the Coast

Edited by Martha Black, Lorne Hammond & Gavin Hanke
Categories: Nature

An insightful collection exploring the plight, past and promise of the Orca, powerful symbol of British Columbia’s wild coast and apex predator of all oceans.

Spirits of the Coast brings together the ...

Pictura

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. ...

Partisan Odysseys

By (author) Nelson Wiseman
Categories: Political Science

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, ...

Canada's Legal Pasts

Canada’s Legal Pasts explores new topics in Canada’s fascinating legal history and presents practical approaches to historical scholarship on the workings of law and legality. Drawing on real-world ...

Alice Munro Country

This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir by Munro’s renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writers, playwrights, poets, ...

Alice Munro Everlasting

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

Enemy Alien

By (author) Kassandra Luciuk
Illustrated by nicole marie burton
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels

This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s ...

Hiding in Plain Sight

By (author) Wendy Chan
Categories: Social Science

Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in British Columbia, Hiding in Plain Sight examines the barriers ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Categories: Literary Collections

The Black Prairie Archives recovers a new regional archive of “Black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by 19th century Black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published ...

Until We Are Free

The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ...