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: History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
Series: Indigenous Studies

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 ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work
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” ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Archival Studies, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Cultural 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: Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Social Science, Women’s Studies

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
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. ...

Social Poesis

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

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography

Edited by Aïda Hudson
Subjects: Geography, Social Science, Child Studies, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds ...

Feminist Praxis Revisited

Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson and Susanne Luhmann
Subjects: Education, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving ...