Joyce Wieland: A Life in Art

Canadian painter and filmmaker Joyce Wieland rose to prominence in the 1960s, a time when few women were achieving much success in the Canadian art scene. Wieland remained a major figure in Canadian art until ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kingfisher Days: A Memoir

By Susan Coyne

When Susan Coyne, an accomplished actor and founding member of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre, was five years old, the world of fairies and make-believe was very much a reality. Kingfisher Days is her recollection of a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Map to the Door of No Return

By Dionne Brand

A Map to the Door of No Return is a beautiful book. It’s also a sad book, and a maddening book. Governor General’s Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand has created a work that ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe

By Sydell Waxman,Linda Potts, illus.

Emily Stowe was a pioneer in the feminist movement – one of the first women in Ontario to attend medical school, one of the first to demand the right to vote. Her story is certainly ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ No Surrender: Reflections of a Happy Warrior in the Tory Crusade

By Hugh Segal

Despite its partisan reek, this is a very good, at times terrific, memoir: engaging, insightful, and informative. Alas for the author’s shrinking band of red Tories, their historic Conservative party home is endangered. The ideological ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Miss O: A Life in Dance

By Betty Oliphant

Betty Oliphant’s life is the perfect topic for an autobiography. In 1947 she arrived in Canada from England on the arm of a low-ranking soldier and managed to muster enough funds to set up a ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet

By Rita Joe

Rita Joe is a Mi’kmaq woman, the first Mi’kmaq to be honoured for her poetry by the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation (in 1978) and the first Mi’kmaq woman to be entered into the Order of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Song of a Water Dragon

By Norman Track

A photographer and ethnographer, Norman Track goes to China in search of “endangered species, both people and plants.” He returns with photographs of rare irises and the manuscript of Song of a Water Dragon, the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Li-Ka Shing: The Biography

By Anthony B. Chan

Li-Ka Shing is the story of one man’s rise from poverty to extraordinary wealth and power, the motivation for which was a deathbed promise to his dying father. Li’s father, an immigrant teacher from mainland ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Risk and Redemption: Surviving the Network News Wars

By Arthur Kent

In the early days of 1991, Arthur Kent got mail like he’d never got mail before. These were Gulf War days and the Calgary-born Kent was an NBC correspondent in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when Iraq’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Joyce Wieland: A Life in Art

Kingfisher Days: A Memoir

A Map to the Door of No Return

Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe

★ No Surrender: Reflections of a Happy Warrior in the Tory Crusade

Miss O: A Life in Dance

Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet

Song of a Water Dragon

Li-Ka Shing: The Biography

Risk and Redemption: Surviving the Network News Wars

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