This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18th and 19th centuries and into the fl
An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, Wild Animals I Have Known gave the animal story new credibility and power as a literary genre and remains Seton’s best-loved work.From the Pape
Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the l
The Ontario farmland described with arresting clarity in White Narcissus is, despite its beauty and abundance, “a place of choked vistas” where bitterness and rivalry have taken ro
Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.
When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds he
When Woodsmen of the West first appeared in 1908, most readers could not relate to its rendering of the rough edges of logging-camp life. M. Allerdale Grainger refused to sentimentalize the West – he
This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank
Forty-one sparkling classics of Quebec fiction, in new translations.In these fantastic tall tales, a bull turns into a lawyer, a lonely Alberta cow's ghost longs for Quebec, and Ulysses comes back to
Set in the immigrant community of Winnipeg’s North End, Under the Ribs of Death follows the progress of young Sandor Hunyadi as he struggles to cast off his Hungarian background and become a “real Can
Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstra
Biographical essays on Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Claude Ranger and eleven other influential Canadian jazz musicians. Essential to the library of every Canadian music buff.
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the F
?He died so Jewry should suffer no more.? These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier?stombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of Canadian Jews in the wareffort. As PM Mackenzie Kin
Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Canadian Book Award Winner City of Dartmouth Book and Writing Award for Fiction winner ? In these eleven short stories, Budge Wilson, the popular author of
"New...has written an untraditional book, for it approaches Canadian literature in a novel fashion, includes a whole new aspect of the national written record, places books in a supplementary chr
Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada’s military effort was engaged in finding men to sustain the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especi
In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malc
This is the inspiring story of a Canadian woman who transformed a simple afternoon of reading to a group of children in her backyard in Ghana, Africa, into seven large community libraries in impoveris
Traced here are the beginnings of literacy and literature for Inuit living in Labrador and the eastern Canadian arctic. Inuit living in Labrador in the 19th and early 20th centuries were more literat
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2012, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2012.The 23 regular papers, 16 short papers
Canadian Library Association Honour BookRed Cedar Book Award NominationWhen the construction of monster houses alters Ivy's Vancouver neighborhood, she plans a defiant prank. When it backfires, she wo
An alternative pedagogical perspective toward the education of Black children is explored through the narratives of five African Canadian women teachers.