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Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy… flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was threatened by European disease and Iroquois attacks. This book depicts the creation of a powerful Wendat diaspora in the wake of their dispersal and throughout the latter half of the century. Turning the story of the Wendat conquest on its head, the author demonstrates the resiliency of the Wendat Confederacy and its people. 2013.
Harris - who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s - encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to… basics. With information updated for today's society, she shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. 2009.
A celebration of the sensory pleasures of the garden, from deadheading flowers to studying slugs. Ackerman describes the unexpected drama,… and the sanctuary, that her garden provides. Her hymn to the outdoors and the pleasure we take in it ranges from descriptions of nature's violence to loneliness, portrayed by clamouring male crickets in spring, to sheer wonderment. 2001.
Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin--the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy… and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity, thereby becoming, in her words, "fully human." Gehl also provides a harsh critique of Canada and takes on important anti-colonial battles, including the land claims process and sex discrimination in the Indian Act. 2017.
Exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history.… The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of "five teenage girls in history who kicked ass." All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who had no idea she was going to change his life and inspire others to change the country. Based on extensive documentation assembled from Freedom of Information requests, Angus establishes a dark, unbroken line that extends from the policies of John A. Macdonald to the government of today. He provides chilling insight into how Canada - through breaches of treaties, broken promises, and callous neglect - deliberately denied First Nations children their basic human rights. 2015.
February 2006. First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario, their protest highlighting the issue… of land rights and sparking a series of ongoing events known as the “Caledonia Crisis.” This account of the dispute links the actions of police, officials, and locals to non-Aboriginal discourses about law, landscape, and identity. DeVries encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to reconsider their assumptions. 2011.
Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other… in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.
For over 200 years, the Cree community of Pelican Narrows has endured a torturous relationship with encroaching European culture, from… the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Author Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of Native issues, after years of research on a community she has known most of her life. 2005.
This narrative is a chronicle of Egan's Zen garden adventure with observations about the "Zen" principles that guided his work.… It is the education professor's first foray into the world of garden writing. 2000.
Describes true dramatized events in the lives of four modern Inuit artists. The stories range from a boy's survival adventure… with his dog on shifting ice and a hunter's close-up encounter with a polar bear, to a shaman's dangerous journey to appease the sea-goddess at the bottom of the stormy ocean. Also includes a brief biography of each artist, a bibliography and glossary. Grades 3-6. 2007.
America’s First Lady describes the kitchen garden that she and White House staff planted in 2009 on the south lawn.… Discusses seasonal plants and chores, provides recipes, explores other gardens across the country, and examines the history of gardening. 2012.
When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region,… across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities of the American West. This book contains vital background information and new translations of songs and stories reaching back to the seventeenth century; gathers a host of respected and talented singers, storytellers, historians, anthropologists, linguists, and tribal educators, both Native and non-Native, from the United States and Canada-all working together to orchestrate a single, complex performance of the Algonquian languages. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.
Advises gardeners with special needs on ideas, tools, and methods. Topics include garden design and layout, raised beds, container and… tabletop gardening, easy composting, watering, lawn care, and accessories to facilitate physical tasks. An appendix lists sources of tools, supplies, and information. c1997.
In an unintimidating, conversational style, Cheryl Merser describes the basics of ornamental gardening for beginners. She discusses gardening tools, shortcuts,… year-round maintenance, and many types of plants from shrubs to herbs, perennials to annuals. c1994.
Documents the destructive effects of Canadian policy and urban industrialism on the Grassy Narrows Ojibway band of Ontario. Their forced… 1963 relocation to a new reserve was a destabilizing experience which was worsened by mercury poisoning from the industrial pollution of their river. 1985.
Traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the… soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that keep time, to the strange gift of compost, to great gardens of the world, to things lost and found underground. 2011.
A guide to understanding the Indian Act and its impact on generations of Indigenous Peoples, as well as an examination… of how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance. Bestseller. Winner of the 2019 Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. 2018.
An award-winning Canadian journalist documents the unprecedented extinction of the world's less-spoken languages. Drawing on his encounters with linguistic remnants… from the arctic to aboriginal Australia, he illustrates threats to many endangered tongues. The report also speaks to the relationship between language and identity, and warns of globalization's consequences. 2003.
[...] Le guide 175 questions-réponses sur les produits ménagers répond aux nombreuses questions que les consommateurs se posent sur les… produits qu'ils utilisent tous les jours. Les réponses, simples et précises, vous permettront de comprendre facilement les mécanismes biologiques et chimiques en oeuvre et de choisir vos produits en toute sécurité. Grâce à ce livre, vous saurez comprendre les étiquettes, faire les bons choix et contribuer à la sauvegarde de l'environnement tout en nettoyant efficacement! -- 4e de couv.
Quelques principes scientifiques simples peuvent nous apprendre beaucoup sur les plantes et améliorer notre pratique du jardinage. Une fois que… l'on sait comment vivent et fonctionnent les plantes, il est en effet plus facile d'obtenir d'elles une meilleure croissance, une floraison plus importante ou de plus beaux fruits. Le lecteur trouvera dans ce livre des informations sur ce qui fait la qualité d'un sol, sur les besoins des plantes pour bien se développer, sur le processus de germination ou encore les mécanismes de défense face aux ravageurs et maladies diverses... Mais l'auteur ne se contente pas d'expliquer la vie cachée des plantes, elle raconte aux jardiniers comment mettre en pratique leurs nouvelles connaissances pour apporter aux plantes les soins les plus appropriés et créer de superbes jardins. 2015. Titre uniforme: Practical science for gardeners.