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No comments about Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in Canada (Golden Jubilee.
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Written by L. Ian Macdonald. By McClelland & Stewart.
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Written by Francine Legaré. By XYZ Publishing.
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No comments about Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France (The Quest Library).
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Written by Robert McGhee. By University of Washington Press.
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No comments about The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Venture.
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Written by Bruce Lamb. By Hancock House Publishing.
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2 comments about Outposts and Bushplanes.
- Outposts And Bushplanes is a celebration of the northern British Columbia wilderness, and the rugged people who called the frontier home. Written in simple, down-to-earth prose, Outposts and Bushplanes follows the flights and memories of former bush pilot and veteran outdoorsman Bruce Lamb, preserving the memorable quirks and hardy endurance of the land's settlers during the latter half of the twentieth century. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this sometimes thrilling, sometimes poignant memoir, sure to appeal especially to armchair travelers.
- Outposts And Bushplanes is a celebration of the northern British Columbia wilderness, and the rugged people who called the frontier home. Written in simple, down-to-earth prose, Outposts and Bushplanes follows the flights and memories of former bush pilot and veteran outdoorsman Bruce Lamb, preserving the memorable quirks and hardy endurance of the land's settlers during the latter half of the twentieth century. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this sometimes thrilling, sometimes poignant memoir, sure to appeal especially to armchair travelers.
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Written by Dionne Brand and Immigrant Women's Job Placement and Lois De Shield. By Women's Press (CA).
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No comments about No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920's to 1950's.
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No comments about Medicine Man to the Inuit: A Young Doctors Adventures Among the Eskimos.
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Written by Andria Hill. By Nimbus Publishing (CN).
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No comments about Mona Parsons: From Priviledge to Prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Germany.
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Written by Karolyn Smardz Frost. By Thomas Allen & Son.
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1 comments about I've Got a Home in Gloryland: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad.
- Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Canadian archaeologist and historian pieces together the story of the Blackburns, young American slaves who were man and wife. They fled to freedom in 1831, a full generation before the abolition of slavery in the US, and made their way to Detroit. Soon after that they were noticed, arrested and, on the brink of being returned to Kentucky for punishment and, no doubt, permanent separation, they made it into Canada, who had a no-return policy for escaped slaves.
Using the results of 20 years of research, Smardz-Frost writes a compelling narrative of the Blackburns' story, filling in the details with information about the period, geography, laws and views toward slavery.
This story is a poignant reminder of the horrors of slavery. Without getting preachy - the author's matter-of-fact approach to the sale, ownership, brutalization and sexual abuse of slaves drives the point home quite well. While hardly ignorant of the period, one point was made that I had never thought of. White masters frequently fathered children with female slaves and then sold the offspring - their own children - as slaves. Their own children. Hell's not hot enough for some people.
Don't get me wrong, this book does not club the reader over the head about the issue, but you cannot come away from the story unchanged.
I also am glad that our Northern neighbor, Canada provided shelter for the escapees rather than return them to the lives in bondage. Good call.
And Good job, Karolyn.
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