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"Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience." -- KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide.Does the past define who we are, who we become? In April 1942, Suzanne's mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, British Columbia. Arriving at Vancouver's Hastings Park, they bunked in horse stalls for months before being removed to an incarceration camp in the Slocan Valley. After the Second World War, forced resettlement scattered Japanese families across Canada, leading to high intermarriage rates and an erosion of ethnicity. Loss of heritage language impeded the sharing of stories, contributing to strained generational relationships and a conflict between Eastern and Western values. This hybrid memoir and fourth-generation narrative of the Japanese Canadian experience celebrates family, places, and traditions. Steeped in history and cultural arts, it includes portraits of family and community members -- people who, in rebuilding their lives, made lasting contributions to the Toronto landscape and triumphed over adversity.

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published stories that bring to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings for a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and their homeland.

Scripts, quips, quotes, and soul grown feel-osophies make up the full course spread of FEAST: The Second Helping's succinct and deeply relatable musings. This earnest and intimate collection explores life, love, addiction, and the human condition with humour, grace, and an unflinching eye. Reading it is like listening to a favourite album on repeat, each time picking up on something different. Neither blueprint, how-to, nor rescue mission, it is the reflective perspective of an imperfect soul who has wandered this world, seen some shit, and eventually placed it all into words.FEAST: The Second Serving is a heart on bone china that dares you to bite. A rest stop mirror that scribbles notes on itself for the next traveler to reflect on. It can be read front to back, back to front, or started right in its middle. It was written in recognition of every heart that has kept a beat, and in lasting dedication to the ones that gave them cause to.

Merely surviving seventy years as an association of likeminded people is an accomplishment and one that we should collectively celebrate. But, of course, if all we have to say about the history of our association is that we are still on our feet, what would be the point? After all, our founding parents that gathered for the first time in the late '40s did not gather to socialize - they came together, instead, to try to change the world.The world those parents faced was one with only two choices with respect to their sons and daughters: send them away to the decaying government institution where they would be offered a full range of support, or keep them at home where they would receive no help from their government and where it was illegal for many of the children to even attend school.This is part of the story of what they did.

Under a Sunflower Moon covers memories of The Cherokee Trail of Tears from 1838 up to modern times of Cherokee life in Oklahoma. Stories and poems share personal experiences of joy, sorrows, beliefs, ways of life and death, and survival. With a deep spiritual guidance, Jackie Kraft beautifully presents her memories through stories and poems.

"Long ago there was a great shaman. He wanted to live the life of animals."How did Inuit come to know so much about Arctic animals? Follow a shaman as he is reborn as a polar bear, a ringed seal, and more to learn about what each animal teaches him. Through simplified text and engaging illustrations, young readers are sure to enjoy this adaptation of a traditional story.This stunningly illustrated bilingual picture book serves as an early-level introduction to the rich, mysterious world of Inuit mythology. Adapted by author and linguist Jaypeetee Arnakak with the intention of teaching Inuktitut as a second language, The Shaman Who Became Many Animals can be enjoyed by Inuktitut language learners and curious young readers alike.Discover other traditional stories in our collection! The Story of the Lemming and the Owl, The Story of the Loon and the Raven, and The Story of the Fox and the Wolf are all available.

"An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.”—VoguePart look-book, part memoir, and part history, this beautifully illustrated monument to a singular designer who helped inspire the growing Indigenous fashion movement is also a powerful demonstration of the enduring resonance and possibilities of Haida art.Inspired by a discussion with celebrated Haida artist Bill Reid, Haida designer Dorothy Grant made it her life’s mission to bring her culture’s traditional art into contemporary fashion while adhering to the principle of Yaguudang, or respect for oneself and others. The 1989 launch of her Feastwear collection, featuring modern silhouettes hand-appliquéd with Northwest Coast formline, immediately established her at the forefront of Indigenous fashion in North America, and she has since hosted runway shows and trunk sales from Paris to Vancouver to Tokyo. Her clients include Indigenous leaders, national politicians, and global celebrities, and her garments can be found in museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread is the first monograph to celebrate her trailblazing career. It features new photography of dozens of garments spanning the past four decades, modeled in studio and natural settings in Vancouver and Haida Gwaii, alongside sketches, traditional button robes and spruce-root weaving, and personal stories and reflections from Grant. Essays by Haida repatriation specialist and museologist Sdahl Ḵ’awaas Lucy Bell and curator India Rael Young place Grant in the long continuum of Haida fashion and trace the many innovations and accomplishments of her journey, and Haida curator and artist Kwiaahwah Jones, a longtime assistant to Grant, shares behind-the-scenes insights and memories. An associated exhibition, Dorothy Grant: Raven Comes Full Circle, opens at Haida Gwaii Museum in July 2024.

The Big Fir chronicles the epic journey of one of the world's last towering trees, rooted in history since the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD and now facing the roar of modern chainsaws. Set against the rugged beauty of British Columbia's west coast, this tale oscillates between the boardrooms of colossal forestry conglomerates and the breathtaking landscapes of the world's last untouched temperate watersheds. Delve into a world where ambition clashes with preservation, where greed, passion, enmity, and love intertwine, all set against the backdrop of a habitat as vast as Kuwait, teetering on the brink of change.

An eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many of these artists have not become as well known outside their communities as their male counterparts. These artists are cherished within their communities for helping to keep traditional carving practices alive, and for maintaining the dances, songs, and ceremonies that are intertwined with visual art production. This book, and an associated exhibition at the Audain Art Museum, gathers a range of sculptural formats by Indigenous women in order to expand the discourse of carving in the region.Both the exhibition and publication are co-curated by Dana Claxton, artist, filmmaker and head of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory; and Dr. Curtis Collins, the AAM’s Director & Chief Curator. Commentaries by Skeena Reece, Claxton, and Marika Swan, and interviews with artists Dale Campbell and Mary Anne Barkhouse are presented alongside more than one hundred artworks from public and private collections across North America, including several newly commissioned pieces.Featured artists include:Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka'wakw, 1916–1966)Freda Diesing (Haida, 1925–2002)Doreen Jensen (Gitxsan, 1933–2009)Susan Point (Musqueam, b. 1952)Dale Campbell (Tahltan, b. 1954)Marianne Nicolson (Kwakwaka’wakw, b. 1969)Arlene Ness (Gitxsan, b. 1970s)Melanie Russ (Haida, b. 1977)Marika Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth, b. 1982)Morgan Asoyuf (Ts’msyen, b. 1984)Cori Savard (Haida, b. 1985)Cherish Alexander (Gitwangak, b. 1987)Stephanie Anderson (Wetsuwet’en, b. 1991)Veronica Waechter (Gitxsan, b. 1995)

Exquisitely detailed drawings offer a “field guide” to ubiquitous but overlooked elements of Vancouver’s urban landscape.Three series of intricate graphite drawings depict, with arresting realism, real-world examples of assembled, grown, and built objects common to distinct milieus of Vancouver: the shopping carts piled high with belongings that clatter along sidewalks in the downtown core; the long, high hedges that insulate single-family homes from the din of arterial traffic; and the sculptural lions placed for good luck atop fenceposts in front of many homes, especially on the city’s east side.In creating snapshots and then laborious drawings of these objects, Taizo Yamamoto, the principal of Yamamoto Architecture, was driven by a fascination with how the recurrence of these seemingly mundane objects speaks to omnipresent issues of housing unaffordability, densification, and the aspirations of diasporic communities—concerns that have an uneasy relationship to celebrated narratives of Vancouver but play a prominent role in residents’ everyday lives. To this work he brings not just sustained careful attention but an architect’s eye for details both structural and textural, resulting in immersive, richly nuanced drawings.New essays and fiction from three authors engages the work through prose: Aaron Peck, author of Jeff Wall: North & West (2015), interprets the shopping cart drawings as an appreciation of “ephemeral architecture” and sees affinities to work by Walker Evans and Hilda and Bernd Becher; a short story by Giller Prize–nominated author Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu, 2023) imagines the lives behind the hedges; and Jackie Wong, senior editor of The Tyee, reports on the origin, production, and symbolism of the many lions dotting the city.

"Splendid. This monumentally intimate collection journeys into the diverse soul of the nation. Moments of wit and affection contrast with an austere and formal observation of the human desire to settle, celebrate, and survive. A joyous and inspired book full of moments that are oddly resonant and deeply moving."—Atom EgoyanA subversive look at the liminal locations and transitional moments that make up the Canadian unconscious and the Not-So-True North.In this unvarnished look at Canada, renowned photographer Geoffrey James directs his gaze to the in-between spaces and forgotten places that resist the idea of a cohesive national identity. With an equable eye, James documents the ephemeral and the monumental: a demolition derby in Quebec, how an inmate at Kingston Penitentiary has decorated his cell, the Dickensian side door of Massey Hall in Toronto. The photographs in this collection celebrate the everyday while meditating on the issues James's adopted home faces: the bifurcation of rural and urban, rapid growth and increasing inequality, and its journey toward truth and reconciliation. Linked by views taken from train windows from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, James’s unofficial portrait of Canada brings into sharp relief the unfinished business of the nation as it lurches into the next century.Canadian Photographs includes a conversation between the photographer and Peter Galassi, former Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.

I'd learned pretty quickly that the only person you can depend on is yourself. But when I awake alone, in a city enveloped in mist, I find myself frantically searching for anyone who can help. Desperate to escape my new reality, I'm forced to overcome challenges I never could have imagined. As I struggle to stop a murderer from a place beyond the physical world, I slowly learn the value of letting the right people into your life. With the help of a selfless twelve-year-old and an amateur sleuth I can't seem to tear myself away from, I only hope that I can do what needs to be done before it's too late. The Pale: Diary of the dead is J.McDonald's debut novel. Leveraging a unique writing style developed over shorter works and Master's thesis piece, this author's works explore the concept of what matters most about a person while sending readers on a thrilling ride.

"Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation." -- JEANNE BEKER, author, fashion editor, and television personalityA child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents' untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But what their parents wouldn't share about their history -- including the fact they had also been in Auschwitz -- ended up shaping their children's lives. We Used to Dream of Freedom explores what a family is or could be; the psychology of survivors and the impact of survivor silence on their family; and the responsibility of second generations from traumatized communities to share knowledge from their own histories to help alleviate the suffering of others. Irreverent, moving, and tragic, often all at once, at its heart it is a story of a man who disappeared on his family, his quest to understand why he had to leave, and the long-overdue discovery about his parents that brought him back.

What could best-selling author Brenda J. Thompson possibly find to write about in a small settlement at the top of the South Mountain in Nova Scotia?How about catastrophic collisions, obsessive love, hardscrabble struggles to survive, skinny-dipper showdowns, the worst fishing trip ever, unlikely visitors, desperate refugees, an ill-considered promise that changes two lives, and monsters in the woods?

Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canadäs inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best.

The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspire all Canadians to embrace a better future. On August 22, 2011, Jack Layton, Official Opposition Leader, died as he lived, with dignity, bestowing to his country a message of hope. Canada was in mourning and within hours of his death, tens of thousands of Canadians -- from NDP supporters to political opponents -- paid tribute to the man and his legacy through public vigils, memorials, and expressions of grief. Originally published in 2006, Speaking Out Louder represents Layton's "blueprint for Canada" Highly acclaimed and powerfully written, this book captures Jack Layton's political vision and exemplifies the optimism that marked his life's work. In it he shares personal stories and fascinating, behind-the-scenes details of his career in national politics and talks about the big issues (poverty, AIDS and healthcare, childcare, housing, education) and the ideas that work for Canadians.

Embarquez dans un voyage poignant au coeur de l'Afrique et de l'essence de l'humanité avec "QUELQUE CHOSE À DIRE" - une collection captivante de poésie s'étendant sur deux décennies. Ce livre n'est pas seulement une oeuvre littéraire; c'est un récipient portant la passion et la patience d'une vie en harmonie et en dissonance avec le monde.Des chemins nostalgiques de Danané aux salles académiques de Trois-Rivières, en passant par le décor romantique de Paris, chaque poème est une empreinte dans l'odyssée du poète. Bamako se révèle dans les vers non pas comme un lieu, mais comme le battement de coeur d'une mère patrie qui converse avec l'âme naïve autant qu'expérimentée."QUELQUE CHOSE À DIRE" aborde les pluies qui perturbent les cours, le vacarme du Grand Marché de Bamako, et les violences faites aux femmes qui sévissent en Afrique. C'est une réponse courageuse aux insultes morales infligées aux démunis et un cri contre les injustices subies par les enfants oubliés des rues.Cette collection est une ode à l'amour et une condamnation de l'animosité humaine, exposant des réflexions sur des atrocités historiques, de la traite transatlantique des esclaves aux horreurs infligées par des figures telles que Hitler et Léopold II. Elle se plonge dans les ombres de l'apartheid et les blessures de nations telles que le Rwanda, la Sierra Leone, et le Libéria.Pourtant, au milieu de cette obscurité, "QUELQUE CHOSE À DIRE" est un témoignage de la puissance inébranlable de la parole écrite. C'est une confirmation que l'amour est en effet le commandement du poète et la force ultime qui peut dénoncer ou guérir.Trouverez-vous votre voix dans l'écho de ces poèmes ? Découvrez un monde où même dans la maladie, il y a de la santé; au milieu de la folie, il y a de la raison. Pour quiconque est originaire d'Afrique ou qui a une affinité pour ses vastes expériences, ne pas avoir QUELQUE CHOSE À DIRE est comme une existence non revendiquée.Levez les yeux vers le ciel bleu avec les yeux de l'innocence enfantine et demandez: "Où va ce monde d'adultes ?" Dans ces pages, vous pourriez juste trouver la réponse.