Her Own Person

By Anne Innis Dagg
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography

In Her Own Person: The Life of Mary Quayle Innis, a daughter uncovers the story of her mother’s extraordinary professional achievements at a time when gender expectations relegated her work to the background. ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Limelight

By Katja Lee
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. Using the memoirs of famous ...

The Chippewas of Georgina Island

Edited by John L. Steckley, Leah Atkinson, Albert Big Canoe, Andrew Big Canoe, Lauri Hoeg, Susan Hoeg, and Barbara McDonald
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History, Social Science, Anthropology

The Chippewas of Georgina Island is a record of the history of an Indigenous community and the stories and photographs of the lives of community members over the years. A work of community storytelling ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Cultural Studies, Archival Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, ...

The Next Instalment

By Wendy Roy
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What happens next?

That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers ...

The New Race

By William H.H. Johnson
Afterword by Wayde Compton
Subjects: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Archival Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

William H. H. Johnson’s The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black North American tradition published by a British Columbian. ...

What the Oceans Remember

By Sonja Boon
Subjects: Life Writing, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Family & Relationships, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Life Writing

Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ...

Beauty in a Box

By Cheryl Thompson
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Film & Media

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding ...