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  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

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  • Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson

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  • Leaving for the Seal Hunt

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  • Family Secrets

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    Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of ... Leer más

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  • Village Japan

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  • Great Britons, A Very Peculiar History

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