How the Scots Invented Canada. Harper Collins. 384 pages. However you enter the history of Canada — through exploration, politics, business, education, or literature – you find Scots and their descendants playing a leading role. Yet Canadians of Scottish origin, who today total 4.7 million, have never made up more than sixteen per cent of [...]
On Toby’s Terms, by Charmaine Hammond, chronicles Toby’s journey from incorrigible to incredible. Toby, is a Chesapeake Bay retriever, adopted at age five, from an animal shelter. Soon after Toby entered the life and home of Charmaine and her husband Chris, Toby proved to be a holy terror who routinely opened and emptied the [...]
The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future by Anna Porter. Douglas & McIntyre. September 2010. 272 pages. Winner of the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct [...]
George Fertig was a Jungian, a socialist, a symbolist and an outsider. For 40 years he struggled to survive as as artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. Part biography and part memoir, as told by his eldest daughter, this book includes fourteen years of research, interviews, letters and over one hundred and fifty rare photographs. Born [...]
The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton by Sheryl Salloum Introduction by Sherrill Grace The fourth book in The Unheralded Artists of BC series During her lifetime (1890–1967), Mildred Valley Thornton (HON. CPA, FRSA) was noted nationally and internationally. The full story of this distinctive artist, with landscapes and portraits, watercolours and oils, is [...]
The Summer of Love. Vietnam. Woodstock. These are the milestones of the baby boomer generation Theodore Roszak chronicled in his 1969 breakthrough book The Making of a Counter Culture. Part of an unprecedented longevity revolution, those boomers form the most educated, most socially conscientious, politically savvy older generation the world has ever seen. And they [...]
The original pregnancy bible, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, has been completely revised, expanded, and updated by renowned, best-selling author and mother of four, Ann Douglas. Times have changed. From open discussions about prenatal and post-partum depression, to high-tech methods of conception, to proudly showing off that baby bump, being pregnant circa 2011 is [...]
Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of [...]
An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an [...]
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