Douglas: 676 books
by Richard Wagamese
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled - from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism - in reclaiming his identity. It’s about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he’s writing about playing baseball, running...
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working...
Exploring Vancouver
The Architectural Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes, and a maturing architectrual melange is emerging. This book invites the reader to explore...
Growing Pains
The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada."
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training...
Pause
An Emily Carr Sketch Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
While studying art in London, Emily Carr seriously undermined her health and was sent to a sanatorium for a complete rest cure. Bridling at the hospital’s rules, which prohibited excitement of any kind, the always rebellious Carr proceeded to make friends, raise birds, and cause trouble. In words...
Embers
One Ojibway's Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on-and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times...
One Family's Journey
Canfor and the Transformation of British Columbia's Forest Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Peter Bentley recounts the exciting journey shared with his esteemed father, Leopold "Poldi" Bentley, and his uncle in the building of a major forest products company.
Bentley has a unique perspective on the rise and fall - and the subsequent reinvention - of western Canada's forest...
The Ice Pilots
Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
As seen on TV!
The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From...
A Year of Living Generously
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A Year of Living Generously follows award-winning journalist Lawrence Scanlan as he volunteers with 12 different charities, among them well-known institutions Habitat for Humanity, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Canadian Crossroads.
Drawing from first-hand experiences - serving in a soup...
Rick Hansen
Man in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Celebrating beloved Canadian artists, the Collected series is beautifully designed with an affordable format, ideal for gift buyers and visitors. Canadian artist Ted Harrison began to paint as a young boy in school, and in the years since, has both worked and taught as an artist, an illustrator, and...
Spindrift
A Canadian Book of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
"an excellent anthology … a lovely project"
--Silver Donald Cameron
Given that Canada has the longest coastline in the world and its motto is "From Sea unto Sea," it is not surprising that virtually every Canadian writer has been inspired to write about some aspect...
by Douglas Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Traveling Alone is a fascinating mosaic of travel adventures culled from a three-year, five-continent trip that covered over 50 countries. The stories themselves are sad, hilarious, frightening, bizarre and even romantic, but never boring. They range from composing love letters in Cairo for two star-crossed...
Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson
Rescuing Canadian Business From the Suds of Global Obscurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Canada has all the makings of a global leader, yet it has opted to become a laggard, frittering away its jackpot of rich resources rather than building viable multinationals that are ultimately the country’s best defence in a globalized world. Andrea Mandel-Campbell interviews some of Canada’s...