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  • Encounters on the Passage

    Inuit Meet the Explorers

    de Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Images of Justice

    de Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Series Libro 16 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber also provides valuable information on the little-known carvers who created these remarkable works of art. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Audiolibro

    When the Whalers Were Up North

    Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic

    de Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Narrado por Brianne Tucker ...
    Series Audiolibro 1 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

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    8 hora 10 minutos

    The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illuminated by a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs, and illustrations, many in full colour, tales are told of when the whalers first appeared on the north-east coast of Baffin Island, how they set up land stations in the whale-rich waters of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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    A Portrait of a Country and Its People

    de Roy MacGregor ...
    Who are we? In Canadians, one of Canada’s most intelligent and beloved writers maps our national psyche in a wonderful and ambitious work. Canadians is an entertaining portrait of this country and its people, through its history, popular culture, literature, sport, landscape, and weather. In his pursuit of the Canadian national identity, MacGregor has travelled far and wide, taking our pulse, ... Leer más

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  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    de J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Leer más

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  • Is Eating People Wrong?

    Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

    de Allan C. Hutchinson ...
    Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Victims of Benevolence

    The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School

    de Elizabeth Furniss ...
    An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the suicide of another while they were students at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School during ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • National Dreams

    Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

    de Daniel Francis ...
    As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams ... Leer más

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  • Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    de Peter Johnson ...
    A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible ... Leer más

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  • The West Beyond the West

    A History of British Columbia

    de Jean Barman ...
    British Columbia is regularly described in superlatives both positive and negative - most spectacular scenery, strangest politics, greatest environmental sensitivity, richest Aboriginal cultures, most aggressive resource exploitation, closest ties to Asia. Jean Barman's The West beyond the West presents the history of the province in all its diversity and apparent contradictions. This critically ... Leer más

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  • Medicine Unbundled

    A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

    de Gary Geddes ...
    "We can no longer pretend we don't know about residential schools, murdered and missing Aboriginal women and 'Indian hospitals.' The only outstanding question is how we respond."—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver SunA shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's ... Leer más

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  • Tough Crimes

    True Cases by Top Criminal Lawyers

    de Christopher D. Evans, Edward L. Greenspan, Richard Wolson, Marilyn Sandford, Earl Levy, Peter Martin, John Rosen, Fred Ferguson, William Smart0, Richard Peck1, Noel O'Brien2, Joel Pink3, Patrick Fagan4, Brian Beresh5, Mark Brayford6, Marie Henein7, William Trudell8, John Vertes9, Thomas Dalby0, Hersh Wolch1 ...
    Series Libro 1 - True Cases Series
    Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all ... Leer más

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