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The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

By (author) Guy St-Denis
Categories: History of art

Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. ...

Album Rock

Album Rock is the account of writer Matthew Hollett’s research and road trip to isolated Ship Cove, on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula to solve a mystery—the source of a captivating photograph. ...

Art populaire

By (author) François Tremblay
Categories: History of art

Un ouvrage tout en couleurs, dans la catégorie des beaux livres, sur l’évolution de l’art populaire.

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

By (author) Kerry Mason
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

Arthur Pitts (1889–1972) born in the UK, came to Canada in 1914. He lived in Saanichton, British Columbia, attended the Westminster School of Art in London (1920) and the Vancouver School of Decorative ...

Rover

In 2009, Andrew Grant began photographing dogs, starting with two French bulldogs at an unrelated commercial “shoot. ” Then he discovered the sad fact that millions of lost or abandoned dogs enter ...

Should Auld Acquaintance

By (author) Melanie Murray
Categories: Biography: general

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...

Refus global

Symbole incontestable de la modernité québécoise, à la fois manifeste et recueil d’œuvres d’art, Refus global est entré dans la légende avec ses mythes, ses héros, ses martyrs. Comment a-t-il ...

The Life and Art of Mary Filer

Christina Johnson-Dean is a teacher and writer. Her books include of The Life and Art of Ina D. D. Uhthoff, shortlisted for the Victoria Butler Book Award; The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher ...

Peace Dancer

Powerful illustrations accompany this skillfully told legend of the flood from the renowned Northwest Coast Legends series. Illustrated and told by renowned First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers and ...

Giotto and the St Francis cycle

First title in the series Stories Behind the Art, giving simple, clear descriptions of Giotto’s 28 frescoes in the Upper Church of the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi.

Supplemented by brief excerpts ...