Canadian category: 447 books
Come 'n' Get It
Roundup Recipes from Ranch Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
A wholesome and hearty collection of authentic recipes and local history from ranch country.
Come ‘n’ Get It is an authentic collection of down-home recipes and early Western Canadian ranch lore. Featuring material and recipes gathered from letters, history books, family cookbooks, and...
God's Plenty
A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough,...
Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Man Should Rejoice is one of two hitherto unpublished novels by acclaimed novelist Hugh MacLennan. Completed in 1937 and left unpublished due to economic conditions during the Great Depression, it lay in the McGill archives until now.
This critical edition of Man Should Rejoice , which is also...
Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse
Another Cookbook of Sorts
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A new cookbook/survival guide/love letter to Montreal for these apocalyptic times, from the James Beard Award–nominated culinary adventurists and proprietors of the beloved restaurant, Joe Beef.
“The first Joe Beef cookbook changed forever what a cookbook could be. Anything that came after...
Gardens, Covenants, Exiles
Loyalism in the Literature of Upper Canada/Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Scraps, tags, figments of the United Empire Loyalist heritage dot the Ontario landscape. Something of Loyalism lies in the very Ontario air and pervades the imagination of its people.
In Gardens, Covenants, Exiles, Dennis Duffy sets out to describe and analyse the effects of Loyalism on the...
by Sara MacDonald, Barry Craig
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book explores the understanding of freedom developed in the later novels of celebrated Canadian author, David Adams Richards. Many reviewers highlight two interconnected features in Richards novels: a seemingly rigid determinism of setting and sociodemographics, and a resulting hopelessness....
Nino Ricci
Essays on His Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms of Canada and the modern world. Each contributor examines a specific novel or several novels,...
A Journey in Translation
Anne Hébert's Poetry in English
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert’s shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this exploration of Hébert’s work are the people who were inspired...
Refuse
CanLit in Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
CanLit–the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies...
Duchess at Home
Sweet & Savoury Recipes from My Home to Yours
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A cookbook of delectable, comforting, French-inspired fare for home cooks and Francophiles everywhere, from the bestselling author of Duchess Bake Shop.
In Duchess at Home--a beautiful new cookbook from the founder of Duchess Bake Shop--Giselle Courteau draws on her French and French Canadian...
Inventing Sam Slick
A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States.
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not...
Niagara Food
A Flavourful History of the Peninsula's Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A look at the history and culture of food, wine, and culinary culture in southern Ontario's Niagara region. The Niagara region has a unique culinary history and tradition. From its mild microclimate that supports the cultivation of tender fruits -- peaches, cherries, and more -- to its role as the birthplace...
Conversations with Trotsky
Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This collection presents all of Earle Birney’s known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney’s letters and literary writings.
Before he became one of Canada’s most influential...
The Best of Tamblings
2015-2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The best essays from the Tamblings newsletter for 2015-2016.