Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series – serie
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12 produkter
Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country
Memories of a Mother and Son
Av Elizabeth Bingham Young, E. Ryerson Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
378 kr
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In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her husband of only fivemonths, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton,Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville, at Norway House. Overthe next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband's work atRossville and then at the newly …
Wolves at My Shadow
The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
Av Ingelore Rothschild, Darilyn Stahl Listort m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Each leg of the journey presents its own nightmare: passports are …
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
Häftad, 2017
229 kr
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In a series of chronological vignettes, Arthur Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun Residential School and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story at an examination for discovery in connection with a lawsuit brought …
Amma's Daughters
A Memoir
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents' distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her …
Under the Nakba Tree
Häftad, 2022
318 kr
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Mowafa's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, Mowafa visited his family's homeland of Palestine. It was the …
Drink in the Summer
A Memoir of Croatia
Häftad, 2023
378 kr
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Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free from the constraints of everyday …
Very Capable Life
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
Häftad, 2009
304 kr
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Zarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to finda new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a greatimagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and youngmarried woman. Zarah and her family lived through the Depression, andshe learned to make ends meet …
Letters from the Lost
A Memoir of Discovery
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein's father snatched his stampedexit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wifeand child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, onlyletters from their extended family could reach Canada through thebarriers of conflict. The …
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
Av Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné, Paul Jackson
Häftad, 2014
304 kr
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When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents leftrural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince.As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorshipexited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier's reign, wereliberated and emboldened to …
Leaving Iran
Between Migration and Exile
Häftad, 2016
272 kr
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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee Iranon the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father was awell-respected son of the chief rabbi …
Man Proposes, God Disposes
Recollections of a French Pioneer
Häftad, 2013
378 kr
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In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortablebourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Albertain search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Somesixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada beforehe returned to France in 1914 …
Xwelíqwiya
The Life of a Stó:lo Matriarch
Häftad, 2013
437 kr
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Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lo (or, asthey are now called, Xwélmexw) matriarch, artist, and craftswoman.Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chaptersrecount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser Riverduring the Depression. While …
