North America local history
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How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of CreationThis beautiful compendium of tales shares eight classic Inuit creation stories from the Baffin region. From the origins of day and night, thunder and lightning, and the sun and the moon to the creation of the first caribou and source of all the Arctic's...
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Town Is by the SeaWinner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all...
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Living in . . . Mexico: Ready-To-Read Level 2Discover what it's like to grow up in Mexico with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Hola! My name is Rosa, and I'm a kid just like you...
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They Called Me Number OneBC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief...
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Thirst!: A Story of Prohibition In OntarioProhibition was the law of the land in both Ontario and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet because of the one key difference between Ontario's Temperance Act and America's Eighteenth Amendment, smugglers could make small fortunes transporting Ontario booze through the...
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Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s ScoopFrom the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be...
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American InvasionAn "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day. Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and...
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Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education: English Edition"Before schools were introduced to the Inuit, we were taught by our relatives." In this picture book, Monica Ittusardjuat shares how she learned knowledge and skills in a time before being taken to residential school. She describes how children learned through playing games, imitating...
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Revolutionary Women of Texas and MexicoMuch ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico, which celebrates...
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Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of WinnipegThrough a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years. It traces the emergence of a...
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C Is for CarnivalD is for dance! E is for emancipation! From A to Z, this is a rhyming alphabet book that celebrates Canada's Caribbean Carnival. This engaging and educational book features a diverse cast of children in vibrant costumes as they ?play mas' while dancing to...
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road"A book to be plundered and raided." -- New York Times Book Review "A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day." -- USA Today Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the...
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Oaxaca JournalSince childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados--mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders--he embarks on an exploration of Southern...
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Tales from a SnowbankIn Tales from a Snowbank, you will read about the challenges of surviving in a sub-arctic community, such as walking home from school with the fear of turning a corner and coming face-to-face with a big white bear. This is an autobiographical collection documenting...
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Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A MemoirFor fans of Russell Peters, Trevor Noah, and Mark Critch comes a hilarious debut memoir about family, pursuing our passions, and figuring out who we are, by stand-up comedian and popular CBC host, Ali Hassan. Growing up, Ali Hassan was a chameleon. His friends...
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Streetwise Vancouver Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Vancouver, CanadaStreetwise Vancouver Map is a laminated city center map of Vancouver, Canada. The accordion-fold pocket size travel map has an integrated Sky Train & Express Line routes & stations. Coverage includes: Main Vancouver Map 1:26,000 Downtown Vancouver Map 1:12,500 Vancouver Area Map 1:120,000 Downtown...
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Trail to the Bruce: The Story of the Building of the Bruce TrailThe Niagara Escarpment is the most significant land form in southern Ontario, designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in 1990. The Bruce Trail was conceived in 1960 in order to establish a conservation corridor containing a public footpath along the Escarpment. June 2017marked the...
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time"Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end." --Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on...
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Under the Lemon MoonHonor Book Award, Society of School Librarians International Notable Children's Book, Smithsonian Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, National Council for the Social Studies/ Children's Book Council The 50 Best Children's Books, Parents MagazineOne night, Rosalinda is awakened by a noise in...
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Peace DancerThe children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a powerful storm....
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