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The Truth About Stories

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous. "

Beginning with a ...

Shifting Boundaries

Par (auteur) Tim Schouls
Catégories: Recherche sur l’ethnicité

Canada is often called a pluralist state, but few commentators view Aboriginal self-government from the perspective of political pluralism. Instead, Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural ...

The Girl from God's Country

Par (auteur) Kay Armatage
Catégories: Féminisme
Séries: Heritage

In The Girl from God’s Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood ...

Great Chiefs

Par (auteur) Tony Hollihan
Catégories: Recherche sur l’ethnicité
Séries: Legends

This classic volume is a tribute to the legendary chiefs and warriors who guided their people through the most turbulent chapter in their history. Tony Hollihan reveals how these visionary leaders grappled ...

At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. ...

Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts

Par (auteur) Amita Handa
Catégories: Recherche sur l’ethnicité

Dr. Handa explores issues surrounding the way identity is imagined and constructed by South Asian girls, women and South Asian community workers in Toronto. The author also examines ways in which young ...

A Very Remarkable Sickness

The area between the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg, bounded on the north by the Hudson Bay lowlands, is sometimes known as the "Petit Nord. " Providing a link between the cities of eastern Canada and ...

Taxing Choices

Par (auteur) Rebecca Johnson
Catégories: Études de genres
Séries: Law and Society

In the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a business expense. The case ignited public controversy. ...

The Girl and the Game

Par (auteur) M. Ann Hall
Catégories: Études sur les femmes

The Girl and the Game traces the history of women’s organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to ...