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“joan marshall”

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  • Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island

    by Joan Marshall ...
    Grand Manan Island a 200-year old fishing village in the Bay of Fundy has been overwhelmed by globalization technology and changing government policies. Changes on the island call into question the myth of the rural idyll and point to an urgent need for reconsideration of urban-rural divides. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island

    Culture and Belonging in a Fishing Community

    by Joan Marshall ...
    In less than a decade, the island community has faced the degradation of the wild fishery and rapid growth of aquaculture, an increasing presence of multinational corporations, new federal initiatives with respect to aboriginal policies, and widespread social dysfunction. Joan Marshall uses over twelve years of intensive ethnographic research to chart the nature and pace of social and cultural ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Four Degrees Celsius

    A Story of Arctic Peril

    by Kerry Karram ...
    This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways sent a rescue team headed by Captain Andy Cruickshank, in what was to become the most extensive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left to Die

    The Story of the SS Newfoundland Sealing Disaster

    by Gary Collins ...
    “They didn’t die like flies, you know, like I’ve heard some reporters say over the years. Oh no, it wasn’t like that a’tall. The men who died didn’t just drop like flies. There was nothing quick or easy about it. They had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped with the cold to wipe the tears from their eyes.” Cecil Mouland, the last living survivor of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Old Enough to Fight

    Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War

    by Dan Black, John Boileau ...
    Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story.Some boys ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Bay Bulls Standoff

    by Chris Ryan ...
    The Mounties don’t always get their man. There is a folk legend living in Bay Bulls, on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland, by the name of Leo Crockwell. He ranks up there with legends like D. B. Cooper and Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River. This is the story of how Leo Crockwell took on one of the most revered police forces in the world, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and walked ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Quarantined

    Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

    by Peter Johnson ...
    Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands of forgotten people who arrived on our shores only to be felled by disease, in an era when ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Divided Loyalties

    The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008

    by Jeffrey Brooke ...
    The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of the country's history. Yet over the past two decades, the 'natural governing party' has seen a decrease in traditional support, finding itself in opposition for nearly half of that time. In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience as a party insider and on interviews with more than sixty senior Liberals to follow the trajectory ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Imagining Winnipeg

    History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote

    In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the riots of the 1919 General Strike, Foote’s photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Getting Back in the Game

    A Foreign Policy Handbook for Canada

    by Paul Heinbecker ...
    Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the "grown-ups table"? Some would argue yes, that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best and non-existent at worst.Paul Heinbecker disagrees. The golden days of Lester B. Pearson may be long gone, he contends (and perhaps they weren't quite ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gambatte: Generations of Perseverance and Politics

    A Memoir

    by David Tsubouchi ...
    A revealing memoir from the Japanese-Canadian former Ontario cabinet minister."Gambatte" means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi's life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of Canadians of Japanese descent and the confiscation of their property, possessions, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From The Voices Of Nurses

    by Marilyn Marsh ...
    Thirty-three nurses who graduated before 1950 were interviewed about nursing in communities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. Their nursing experiences cover a 60 year period and the stories reflect the nurses' perceptions and feelings about the nursing school experience, practicing nursing in various settings and communities, and the changes in the nursing profession throughout their career. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD