Best of
Canada

1991

People Of The Pines


Geoffrey York - 1991
    

The Leaving and Other Stories


Budge Wilson - 1991
    Reprint.

The Margaret Trilogy


Bernice Thurman Hunter - 1991
    But being diagnosed with tuberculosis and banished to her aunt and uncle's farm isn't the kind of attention she was looking for. Soon, though, she finds friendship in the form of Starr - the farm's huge Clydesdale - and a home where she can be herself and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian.Three best-selling stories about Margaret, a smart-alecky, horse-loving girl caught between two worlds and trying to find a place for herself.

Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the Wilderness


Chris Czajkowski - 1991
    There, she single-handedly cleared the land and — despite a total lack of experience in construction — built her own house.More than simply a lyrical celebration of the natural world, Cabin at Singing River is a story of courage, perseverance and imagination. From the moment Chris sets her inexperienced foot into an unsteady canoe until the triumphant day she stands back to survey the log house she has built, we are irresistibly drawn into her remarkable journey toward independence.

Petticoats And Prejudice: Women And Law In Nineteenth Century Canada


Constance Backhouse - 1991
    

A Guide to Animal Behaviour


Douglas Glover - 1991
    Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover's new collection smashes all the fictional moulds.Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the stories in this collection touch the lives of an astonishing array of characters whose common experience is of a world that is wayward yet full of marvels: a born-again Christian from Kentucky who loses his memory and ends up finding true love in glitzy Bel Air; two women who fall in love only to be parted when one dies of cancer; a man who goes to live in a cardboard box when his wife leaves him for the manager of a Toys R Us store; an eighteenth-century Canadian pioneer who believes he is being persecuted by witches.This is sophisticated fiction at its best. A maximalist writer of ideas, he packs his sentences with energy, exuberant imagery and amazing turns of thoughts.

Suffer Little Children


Dereck O'Brien - 1991
    The horror of Derecks revelations of physical and emotional abuse was magnified exponentially by the knowledge that those authorities responsible for his welfare had twice been made aware of his plight, and had ignored his pleas for help. Determined to purge himself of his unhappy childhood memories and hoping to prevent similar abuse of todays children, OBrien began to write his story. Told in his own simple and compelling words, Suffer Little Children poses the haunting question, why? First banned by the Department of Justice in Newfoundland, t! his book went on to become a Can adian bestseller.

A Taste of Acadie


Marielle Cormier-Boudreau - 1991
    They gathered the culinary secrets of traditional Acadian cooks while there was still time, and then they adapted more than 150 recipes for today's kitchens.First published in 1991, A Taste of Acadie, the popular English translation of the best-selling Cuisine traditionalle en Acadie, is available once again. The indigenous cuisine of Acadia is a distant relative of French home cooking, born of necessity and created from what was naturally available. Roast porcupine or seal-fat cookies may not be to every modern diner's taste, but the few recipes of this nature in A Taste of Acadie hint at the ingenuity of women who fed their families with what the land provided. Most of the recipes, however, use ingredients beloved of today's cooks. Here you'll find fricot, a wonder of the Acadian imagination, pot en pot, a traditional Sunday dinner sometimes called grosse soupe, and dozens of meat pies.For those with a sweet tooth, Gallant and Cormier-Boudreau include recipes that use maple syrup and fresh wild berries. A Taste of Acadie is traditional cooking at its best, suffusing contemporary kitchens with country aromas and down-home flavours. Decorated with evocative woodcuts by Michiel Oudemans, it is a pleasure to look at and a charming addition in its own right to contemporary country-style kitchens.

The Canadian Rockies SuperGuide


Graeme Pole - 1991
    Whether you're planning your trip, looking for a perfect road guide, or searching for a lasting and complete record of your journey, this is the book for you. The Canadian Rockies SuperGuide has detailed information on Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, and Waterton National Parks. Included are maps, historical tidbits, info on flora and fauna, and plenty of spectacular full-colour photographs.

Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925


Mariana Valverde - 1991
    Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and "white slavery."Mariana Valverde's groundbreaking The Age of Light, Soap, and Waterexamines the work and the ideas of moralist clergy, social workers, politicians, and bureaucrats who sought to maintain - or create - a white Protestant Canada. The morality idealized by evangelical, feminist, and medical activists was not, as is often assumed, completely repressive and puritanical. On the contrary, the self-defined social purity movement at the centre of this book talked endlessly about sex in order to create a healthy sexuality among both native-born and immigrant Canadians. Sexual health was linked to racial purity, and both of these were in turn linked to efforts to abolish urban slums by means of symbolic as well as physical "light, soap, and water."This study uncovers a little known dimension of Canadian social history and shows that moral reform was not the project of a marginal puritanical group but was central to the race, class, and gender organization of modern English Canada.

The Noam Chomsky Lectures


Daniel Brooks - 1991
    Following the impetus of Chomsky himself, Brooks and Verdecchia have recognized that mass media, mass spectacle, have trivialized and severed consciousness and conscience, separating both from a communal base. We collectively know little about what is done in our name by our elected governments and the business interests they serve. The Noam Chomsky Lectures assumes not only that we do want to know, that our ‘knowing together’ may change things, but also that it is less painful to know than to not know.’ - Joyce Nelson in her introduction to The Noam Chomsky Lectures

The Sea Is at Our Gates : The History of the Canadian Navy


Tony German - 1991
    

The Old Man Told Us


Ruth Holmes Whitehead - 1991
    Her publications include Six Micmac Stories, The Mi'kmaq, How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago, Micmac Quillwork, and Elitekey.

Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei


Keibo Oiwa - 1991
    Their assets were seized and most of the Japanese Canadian population was relocated. This work is a selection of memoirs, diaries, and letters written by four Issei, the first generation of Japanese to settle in Canada.

The Deaths of Cindy James


Neal Hall - 1991
    

Quick And The Dead


Linda McQuaig - 1991
    

Kids' U.S. Road Atlas: Backseat Books


Rand McNally & Company - 1991
    The only road atlas designed for children ages six through twelve, this specially formatted guide provides a fun and educational way for children to learn about maps and geography with actual Rand McNally maps, colorful illustrations, and travel games.