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Local Customs Nominated for 2016 Evergreen Award

Posted on February 9 by Karen in Awards, News, Non-fiction

Dundurn is pleased to announce that Local Customs by Audrey Thomas has been nominated for the Ontario Library Association (OLA)’s 2016 Evergreen Award, part of the Forest of Reading program. The Evergreen Award features adult titles, and the list is chosen by a committee of experienced library staff.

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Ukkusiksalik

Posted on February 5 by David F. Pelly in Non-fiction, Recent Releases

Ukkusiksalik is the traditional name of a region in the northwestern corner of Hudson Bay. No one lives there today, but for the Inuit it has a special significance because it was a land of plenty for their ancestors, a bountiful hunting ground where one could always find food. In difficult times and in times of hunger, people came from the north and the south and from inland to the west to find sustenance in Ukkusiksalik. As a result, it is a landscape of stories.

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The Syrian Refugee Crisis

Posted on February 4 by Valerie Knowles in Non-fiction

In the late summer of 2015, a single image served to crystallize emotions and outrage around the world. The image was that of a Syrian toddler’s corpse that had been discovered washed up on a Turkish beach. When this heart-breaking photo appeared on the front pages of the world’s newspapers the hordes of asylum-seekers then pressing for entry into the European Union suddenly had a human face.

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Anna Pottier on Good As Gone

Posted on March 13 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

"Anyone’s life from the age of say, twenty-one to thirty-five encompasses many milestones. I was twenty-one when we first met, twenty-three when I moved in and thirty-five when I had to continue my journey solo. Irving was forty-eight years my senior..."

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Josie Penny On The Goose

Posted on March 12 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

Tell us about your book.
bout my second Book “On the Goose” When “So Few on Earth” came out, there was a great demand from my readers to continue my story. Therefore, at their request I decided to write the next seventeen years of my life as a young bride and mother in Happy Valley Goose Bay. Labrador.

What was your first publication?
My first publication was So Few on Earth. A Labrador Metis Woman Remembers.

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Writing on the Battlefield

Posted on March 10 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

"The essence is to just sit down in a quiet place, undisturbed, and keeping your rear end in the chair and keep writing..."

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On Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry with Pat Skidmore

Posted on February 20 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

Tell us about your book. Marjorie, Too Afraid Too Cry is about my mother Marjorie, and while it tells about her not so unusual – as it turns out – experience of being a child migrant (home child) is also includes why it was not so unusual. For example – instead of her removal from her mother’s care being as a result of her mother failing her – a feeling that Marjorie carried with her for most of her life, I discovered that Britain’s policy of migrating their ‘unwanted’ children to the colonies was at the forefront and it was a practice that had been going on since 1618 when the Virginia Company took one hundred street children from the city of London to Virginia in order to supply labour to the plantation owners at Jamestown, Virginia.

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Ignored but Not Forgotten: A Q&A with Lucille Campey

Posted on February 19 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

Tell us about your book Ignored but not forgotten: Canada's English Immigrants is the third and final book in my trilogy The English in Canada. It tells the story of the later immigration from England to Canada during the later part of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. The book covers English immigration to the whole of Canada. During this period the English were the largest immigrant group, their numbers far exceeding those from other countries. Although the English mainly preferred to settle in the growing Canadian town and cities they also took up the farming and land-owning opportunities offered to them. This was the period when the Prairie Provinces were being opened up for settlement and is a saga rich in human interest.

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Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail talks Polar Winds

Posted on February 18 by Kyle in Interview, Non-fiction

Tell us about your book. If I’ve accomplished what I set out to do, Polar Winds is an engaging look at a century of aviation in the North using as many northern voices as possible. It’s not just about the typical bush pilots you find in books and movies (although they certainly exist and make appearances!) but it looks at “balloonatics” during the Klondike gold rush, air tourists to the North Pole, military flyers during the Second World War and Cold War, as well as passengers, base managers, air mechanics, and so on. I tried above all to shine a light on the experiences of women, indigenous people, and others who are often left out of aviation history.

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