Memoir & Biography

Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640–1655

“The life of Marguerite Bourgeoys can tell us something about relationships between men and women in society and in the church, about contacts between North Americans of native and non-native origin, about the treatment of ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Leaky Iron Boat: Nursing an Old Barge Through Holland, Belgium and France

By Hart Massey, Joe Weissman, illus.

It is one thing to suffer the hardships of travel in order to get a glimpse of the unknown and the exotic. But for Hart Massey – architect, metalworker, son of a Governor General, and ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Perfection of Hope

By Elizabeth Simpson

It is a sad truth that it is only when we are pushed up against our own mortality that we itemize what is really important in our lives. So it was with Elizabeth Simpson, an English ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change

By Elspeth Cameron

Biography, autobiography, and memoir reflect and create fame or notoriety as they document lives and experiences. Canadian Elspeth Cameron’s latest book, No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change, presents a biographer turning her ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Aimee & Jaguar

By Erica Fischer

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hiding My Candy

By The Lady Chablis with Theodore Bouloukos

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Heaven’s Coast

By Mark Doty

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland

By Sam Solecki, ed.

Jack McClelland’s legendary status among Canadian publishers is confirmed by this fine volume of letters, edited by University of Toronto English professor Sam Solecki. The collection includes letters written and received by McClelland over four ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

By Ivo Moravec

Tightrope Passage is the first book of Ivo Moravec’s second writing career. His first was as a songwriter and children’s writer in his native Czechoslovakia. In 1983, worn down by the restrictions on his artistic ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

By Greig Stewart

In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640–1655

The Leaky Iron Boat: Nursing an Old Barge Through Holland, Belgium and France

The Perfection of Hope

No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change

Aimee & Jaguar

Hiding My Candy

Heaven’s Coast

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland

★ Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

Arrow Through the Heart: The Life and Times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow

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