As the author notes in his introduction, this fascinating and insightful book is family history with a context. Placing the lives of his parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative, Dr. Hair explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario, that great peninsula of fertile farmland lying between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.

Dubbed Souwesto in the 1960s by artist Greg Curnoe and playwright James Reaney, the region was home to the kind of people that Alice Munro writes about in her short stories---people mostly of Scots-Irish descent; Protestant; practical, hard-working people attached to the land, defining their community as their school section and their social milieu as their rural Methodist or Presbyterian church.

Souwesto Lives tells their story, beginning in the first days of European settlement, continuing through the clearing of the bush and into the twentieth century, when the coming of the telephone and rural electrification marked the beginning of social and technological changes that would change the area forever. It is a story of the movement from country to city, from family farm to suburban lot, told with verve and affection.

Natives of Souwesto, historians and genealogists, and the general reader all will find much to treasure in this detailed portrait of a region, its people, and a family.

It was while researching a new edition of his introductory sociology textbook that author and teacher John Steckley became curious. Who was the first Canadian Black woman to become a medical doctor? Online research as well as visits to museums in Ontario and British Columbia led him to Sophia B. Jones, a trailblazer as yet little known in her own country. In this fascinating book, Steckley discusses the lives not only of Jones herself but her ancestors and siblings to tell a story of remarkable achievement in the face of daunting obstacles. Readers will learn about James Monroe Gunsmith Jones, who became one of the most renowned makers of firearms in British North America-he was asked to make a rifle for the Prince of Wales, though ingrained racism caused the plan to go awry-and William Allen Painless Jones, a gold miner turned dentist who spent much of his life in Barkerville, British Columbia. Another prominent B.C. resident was John Craven Jones, who taught children on Salt Spring Island despite the fact the government refused to pay him! But perhaps the most interesting character to emerge from the historical shadows is Sophia B. Jones herself. Denied the opportunity to attend medical school in Canada, she graduated from the University of Michigan and taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio, before practising medicine in Kansas City, Missouri. Nor were her talents restricted to medicine. She was granted a patent for a new-and-improved barrel trunk, and wrote a comprehensive article on post-Civil War developments in health care for African Americans. Despite such accomplishments, Jones is not a well-known figure. The author's hope is that she will become recognized as a Canadian role model for those forced to overcome serious obstacles in achieving their hopes and dreams.

This brand-new 2017-2018 edition now includes even MORE information to push you out of your comfort zone and into action

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This pithy and informative text provides women with dozens of activities to help rid themselves of the disease of perfectionism, procrastination, and the obsession with being nice, while also challenging them to improve communication skills and live outside their comfort zones. --Jessica Rose, Hamilton Magazine

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ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. THE ALL IN VISION. Lack of Women Leaders. The ALL IN Mindset. Where's Your Fire? What's Your Vision? What Are Your Goals? Never Lower Your Goals. Manage Your Time. Visualize Success. True or False Quiz: Are You Fulfilling Your Potential? 2. BARRIERS. Barrier # 1: Time Scheduling. Punctuality. To-Do List vs. Priority List. Delaying Gratification. Barrier # 2: Procrastination and Perfectionism. Resistance. What Is Self-Compassion? Are You a People Pleaser? The People-Pleaser Quiz. How to Stop Being a People Pleaser. Barrier # 3: Fear. Fear is Holding You Back. Learn From Your Failures. Barrier # 4: Confidence. Rejection. Build Your Self-Confidence. Barrier # 5: Mindset. Body Talk. The Imposter Syndrome. Limit Negativity in Your Life. 3. GOING ALL IN. Change Your Mindset. Stop Ruminating, Start Reframing. How to Stop Over-Thinking. Victim Mindset. Beware of Mediocrity. Always Say Yes--to Yourself. Take Credit for Your Work. Embrace Constructive Feedback. Giving Constructive Feedback. Change Your Work Habits. Work at Extraordinary Levels. Always Over-Deliver 4. COMMUNICATION TOOLKIT. Verbal. Stop Apologizing. Don't Over-Explain. Please Start Asking Questions. Public Speaking Tips. Body Language. Body Language: Do's and Don'ts. 5. SELF-PROMOTION. Self-Promotion Techniques. 6. CAREER STRATEGIES. Technology. Email. Social Media. Networking. Finding a Mentor. Reference Letters. Job-Hunting. Interview Tips. Interview Questions. Interview Follow-up. Negotiation. How to Negotiate Your Salary. How to Negotiate for a Raise or Promotion. 7. CONCLUSION. We Need to Build a Coalition This Is Not the End.

​L.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to keep the home fires burning. It is a novel that today remains at once both deeply moving and, on occasion, very funny.

As she wrote the novel over a period of two years, Montgomery accumulated 518 handwritten pages. Alongside this stack was another 71 pages, titled Notes. These notes-- literary second thoughts, as it were--added textual flavour, improving the novel's realism, emotional depth, and humour. Montgomery's handwritten manuscript of Rilla was acquired by the University of Guelph Archival & Special Collections in 1999. This manuscript has been painstakingly rendered in a readable format by Kate Waterston and is now published as Readying Rilla, with an introduction by Montgomery expert Elizabeth Waterston.

This edition is a surprisingly engrossing read, but offers a different experience than the finished novel provides. Here we sense Montgomery's own thought processes, and witness the way she carefully refined her novel. The world has changed much since 1921: now books are mostly composed on computer, leaving behind little record of the writer's creative journey to a final published work. But editing is a key process in creating any great work of fiction, and here is one of the most detailed records of creativity available.

For decades David J. Forsyth has researched his ancestors' stories, assembling an enormous cache of records and anecdotes. Although history is filled with the tales of the great and the powerful, much less is known about the lives of ordinary people. Forsyth's goal in his research and in the writing of Alice and the Machine Gunner is to address that gap.

Alice and the Machine Gunner is a conscientious blend of fact and fiction, a multigenerational account of the Geherty family based on information gleaned from civil, parish, military and personal records, as well as the reminiscences of the late Alice Geherty.

The author begins with Peter Geherty, a 19th-century Irish linen weaver, and concludes with the life story of his great-granddaughter Alice, a London-born war bride. In 1919, she emigrated to Hamilton, Ontario, with little hope of ever seeing her parents again.

This engrossing work of creative nonfiction brings to life generations of people now departed, as well as providing a vivid portrait of the city of Hamilton, Ontario in the first half of the 209th century. In the process, it opens the door to a deeper understanding of the past.

In this unique book, John Steckley discusses and catalogues the various names of the Indigenous people known as the Wyandot, including clan names, nicknames, differences in naming conventions by gender, and the names the Wyandot gave to the European settlers they encountered.

Following first contact with Europeans in the early 17th century, the Wyandot were forced to move several times, first from their homeland in what is now Ontario, then from temporary communities around the upper Great Lakes. In the early 18th century, they moved to the Detroit area, where the Anderdon band still lives. Later that century some moved to Ohio where in Upper Sandusky and elsewhere they established a new homeland, only to be driven out in 1843 by settler expansion. They went first to Kansas, where a community still exists, and then to Oklahoma, where their only federally recognized tribe lives today as the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma.

Over the centuries the Wyandot developed rich and evocative naming traditions and conventions. The author draws on nearly five decades of work studying the Wyandot and Wendat languages, and on his tenure as the tribal linguist for the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, to provide a comprehensive guide to Wyandot naming practices. In addition to explaining basic naming conventions, Steckley discusses efforts to document Wyandot names, the evolution of those names over time, and the origins and nature of nicknames and clan names. The book closes with a comprehensive chapter setting out dozens of translations of Wyandot names.

Are you living up to your full potential? This updated 2017-2018 edition of the popular companion workbook to Hey Ladies, Stop Apologizing ... and Other Career Mistakes Women Make isn't just a workbook or journal -- it's a call to action This workbook will help you tackle perfectionism, smash your obsession with being nice, snap out of procrastination, speak up with authority, strengthen your confidence, sell yourself and slay your fears. Success will not tap you on the shoulder It's all about the hustle.

CONTENTS

Introduction. How to Use this Book.

1. Vision.

2. Barriers. 2.1. Time Scheduling. 2.2. Procrastination. 2.3. Fear. 2.4. Confidence. 2.5. Mindset.

3. Going All In. 3.1. Change Your Mindset. 3.2. Change Your Work Habits.

4. Communication Toolkit.

5. Self-Promotion.

6. Career Strategies.

7. Inspiration.

An All In Farewell. Acknowledgements. About the Author. Additional Resources: Books I Love. References. Templates.

In Blacks in a White Place, historian George Emery examines the lives of Blacks in Ingersoll, Ontario, during the years 1850 to 1921.During these years, Ingersoll---located in Oxford County, in the heart of Southwestern Ontario---was mostly a White-race place with a small Black-race minority. The number of Blacks peaked on the eve of the American Civil War, making up about 3 percent of the Ingersoll-area population. The Black population remained significant during the 1860s and 1870s, but then plummeted to 28 in Ingersoll and none in the townships by 1921.

Emery sets out to solve several mysteries. Why did Ingersoll have a large and growing Coloured population on the eve of the American Civil War? Why did its Black population largely vanish during the decades following? How did Blacks and Whites get along in Ingersoll before, during, and after the American Civil War---cordially or with friction?

Blacks in a White Place is about Blacks but also about how Ingersoll's White local historians interpreted them. The conventional wisdom based on their work regards Ingersoll's Black history as a by-product of American slavery before the Civil War and its abolition in 1863. Blacks came to Ingersoll, so the story goes, to escape oppression in Southern Slave States; they then returned to the sunny South once slavery was over (because of the severity of the Canadian winter climate, suggests one local historian). Ingersoll was a terminus of a White-assisted Underground Railway that spirited runaways from Southern Slave States to Northern Free States or to the sanctuary of Canada. Ingersoll Whites actively welcomed these refugees, giving them a safe haven. In return, in 1854 grateful Blacks contributed free labour to help erect a White-abolitionist Wesleyan Methodist Church.

As Emery shows, upon further scrutiny this conventional narrative becomes problematic. The results of his investigations provide a clearer and more accurate picture of the lives of Blacks in the White place of Ingersoll, Ontario, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Bear With Me is the story of Clare, a wildlife photographer in a troubled marriage whose work takes her to far-flung places across Canada. Her travels bring her to an unusual personal view of life as she visits her sister, a veterinarian who runs a dog rescue project complete with security force made up of donkeys, and journeys by sled to camp at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Later, back at home, Clare discovers the different nature of love in old age. Yet the story ends with fireworks, Canadian style.

This engaging and practical book includes numerous exercises and activities as well as a wealth of advice for primary and junior teachers who teach drama and those teachers who want to include drama more broadly across the curriculum.

Drama serves a valuable purpose in the educational system. Students not only learn about theatre but also about themselves and others, something which helps prepare them for life.

This book will help you as a teacher understand the place of drama in the curriculum, suggest how to integrate drama into other subject areas, provide a large number of lesson plans and ideas for drama activities, and, in general, show how valuable a drama program can be.

The book also includes five plays written by the author that are ideal for staging in the classroom or in front of a larger audience of parents and peers.

Key topics covered in the book include:

• the creative process
• elements of drama
• forms of drama
• building student confidence
• integrating drama into other subjects
• creative and dramatic play
• drama games
• acting basics
• putting on a play
• starting a drama club
• lesson plans for teaching drama

In this new collection of short stories, author Michael Elcock explores a variety of inner worlds and lived experiences: survival and betrayal in Germany after World War II ... life in the Scottish highlands ... trouble with army ants ...

Michael Elcock's stories enchant, disturb and remind us of the many worlds we inhabit. Touching on intimate moments and interactions, not a lot happens in these intertwined tales, and that is precisely their strength. A young man sits with an older woman one evening and learns about love. A soldier coaxes music out of a battered piano in an attempt to stay alive. Transactions with the Fallen is a study of human relationships told with an exacting eye for detail and the resonant moment.

---Eve Joseph, Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, 2019

There's a lot to be learned from other people's childhoods-and from other people's adulthoods too, if they've been lucky enough to have one. When they're luckier still, there's a lot to be learned from other people's imaginations. In this remarkable book of stories, Michael Elcock offers us the fruits of all three: a rich, multifaceted childhood, a robust, thoughtful adulthood, and a lively, athletic imagination.

---Robert Bringhurst, author, poet, and recipient of the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence

A must for students and chief executives alike. --Canadian Business Review
A major achievement of scholarship, the first study to describe Canadian business over five centuries. --Winnipeg Free Press
This book contains moments of priceless insight into the Canadian identity. It is the most surprising and possibly the most important book on Canadian history published this year. --Kingston Whig-Standard Magazine

First published three decades ago, Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business remains the only comprehensive history of business in Canada, beginning with the earliest European fishermen of the late fifteenth century and concluding with the dawn of the era of free trade in the 1980s. Grounded in scholarship yet highly readable, Northern Enterprise includes both accounts of well-known and celebrated events like the building of the transcontinental railway and lesser-known stories such as the rise and fall of Massey-Ferguson, one of the first Canadian enterprises to play a major role on the international stage. Professor Bliss also considers the many political influences on Canadian business, including recurring debates over free trade and worries over the outsized influence of the United States.

Winner of the National Business Book Award for its outstanding contribution to the written history of Canada, Northern Enterprise is now reprinted in this one-volume paperback edition, featuring a new introduction by John Turley-Ewart, a noted journalist and business leader, who carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto under Michael Bliss's supervision.

Alexander Brodie emigrated from Scotland to what was then the British colony of Upper Canada--now Ontario--in the 1830s. In this fascinating memoir, written in the early years of the 20th century, Brodie describes life on what was still very much the frontier. Among the subjects described by Brodie are the Rebellion of 1837, making maple syrup in the bush, Indian raids, and, of course, the transatlantic crossing to Canada.

John Steckley, anthropologist, sociologist, and author of numerous books, has carefully edited and annotated his great-great-great-uncle's original manuscript. The result is a fascinating look at early Ontario--a era less than two centuries in the past, yet in many ways an altogether different world from our own.

This delightful book --- now re-issued in a handsome new edition --- tells the story of Elf, a baby eagle who worries about many things, including the distance from his nest, high up in a tree, to the ground, way, way down below. He also worries about his sister, Edwina, who is older and more adventurous than he is, and who spreads her wings and flies out of their nest, which frightens Elf a great deal. Eventually, when his baby down grows into strong, brown feathers, Elf's parents stop bringing him food and tempt him with tasty morsels that they keep just out of reach. Elf gets very hungry and one day he accidentally tumbles out of the nest. As he starts to fall, his parents yell at him to flap his wings. He does, and he is flying! At the story's end, Elf can't wait for dawn to break so he can fly all the way to the sun.

Elf the Eagle was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Award (BC Book Prizes) in 2008 and for the Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers) in 2009.

In this fascinating book, author Ross. D. Petty explores the lives of Titus Simons, Sr., and Titus Simons, Jr. The elder Simons' decision to fight on the side of the British during the American Revolution changed the course not only of his life but that of his entire family, which was forced to leave the nascent United States behind and forge a new beginning in what would become Canada. Once settled, the younger Simons became a merchant, landowner, and, like his father before him, a soldier, fighting on the British side in the War of 1812 against his family's onetime homeland. Titus Simons provides readers with insight into both the challenges of daily life and conflicting allegiances faced by North American men and women in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

In this updated edition of a brief yet remarkable book, David Turner draws on a lifetime of experience to explore the beliefs of the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Those beliefs, he observes, form the foundation for a pan-continental way of life based not on the principle of unity but on a complex inter-relationship of interdependent parts. And that worldview has much to offer the rest of the human world as it searches for a path to a sustainable and secure future. As the author writes in the preface to the book:

In February of 1969 my wife Ruth and I first set foot on a remote island in north Australia to research the way of life of the local Aboriginal people, just as mining was commencing on their land-a couple from Canada via London, England, and Perth, Western Australia, myself enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the University of Western Australia, sent to Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory by my professor, Ronald M. Berndt. A tent in the middle of the Aboriginal camp at Angurugu for day-time work, a staging house across the Angurugu River as living quarters: spiders, snakes, a river to cross every evening with the risk of salt-water crocs swimming upstream. A wet season that's too wet and hot, a dry season that's too dry and hot, infection from even the slightest cut. Trying to learn Anindilyaugwa, one of the most complex languages in the world. Missionaries, mining. The whole gamut. All this time, all those revisits in between, articles and books published, working to come to an understanding of what makes these Aboriginal people and their way of life tick. But what better way to understand something than to become part of it yourself? And what better way to express a basic understanding than in just a few words, leaving the rest to the readers' experiences in their own environment? After all, we're all the same kind of people. Aren't we? Capable of the same experiences. Hopefully.

Available together in a single volume for the first time are Canadian anthropologist Diamond Jenness' pioneering studies of three Athapaskan nations: the prairie-dwelling Tsuu T'ina of Alberta, and the Sekani and Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia's mountainous northern interior. Based on his wide-ranging interviews with elders in the 1920s, these richly detailed and sympathetic ethnographies comprise a valuable record of the histories and cultures of indigenous communities, like myriad others across the country and around the world, struggling to preserve their autonomy and traditions in the face of relentless assimilative forces.

This edition contains original black and white photography, Jenness' own drawings, and a wealth of stories collected firsthand from his informants. And in a new preface, Barnett Richling sketches the disciplinary and institutional background to early northern Athapaskan researches, and describes the local conditions Jenness met, and the methods he employed, while in the field. The work of one of Canada's most distinguished anthropologists, this trio of keenly observed and meticulously drawn accounts remains fascinating reading to this day.

Six decades of insights into Canadian politics, politicians, and Canada's place in the world from award-winning author and scholar Denis Smith ...

Since the days when John Diefenbaker was prime minister, Denis Smith has studied and written about the innermost workings of Canadian government as well as the men and women who make it work. Rogue Tory, his biography of John Diefenbaker, was acclaimed by Books in Canada as finely written, thoroughly researched, superbly organized, and scrupulously fair. It rivals Donald Creighton on Sir John A. Macdonald as the best biography of a Canadian prime minister.

Now Smith celebrates his many years as an observer of -- and sometime participant in -- the Canadian political arena with this collection of essays, addresses, reviews, polemics and diversions written between 1959 and 2015. The topics range from Canada's participation in the first Gulf War to efforts to reform the institution of Parliament. Along the way, the author considers the place in history of such figures as Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, Jean Chretien, Stephen Harper, and many others. The result is a collection that is intriguing, thought-provoking, sometimes amusing, and always insightful.

Denis Smith has been writing about Canadian politics for pushing sixty years, since 1959, indeed. Rock's Mills Press has just brought out an anthology, A Dissenting Voice, with selections from that impressive run. --Christopher Moore's History News

Your reward in reading this intriguing book will be what you will inevitably find to be new, surprising and important. -Michael Adams, author of Fire and Ice

This fascinating new book explores Canada's progress in dealing with a number of pressing social problems, including ethnic, racial, gender and economic inequalities, the treatment of Indigenous peoples, crime and violence, and environmental issues. The authors compare Canada to sixteen other similar countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries. They note that while Canada has done well in certain areas-including welcoming large numbers of immigrants and encouraging them to become productive and engaged members of Canadian society-the country has much to learn from its peers in addressing other challenges. In concluding, Tepperman and Finnsdottir consider the significant differences among Canada's provinces and territories in dealing with social problems, and suggest ways in which Canada could better deal with social issues and further improve what for most of its citizens is an already enviable quality of life.

Professor Hair draws on a lifetime of scholarship and teaching in this brief yet insightful introduction to Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit. Both readers coming to the novel for the first time and those returning to it will find their enjoyment and understanding enhanced by his analysis of how Dickens uses character, plot and atmosphere to drive home his message of social protest. And that message is as relevant today as it was when Little Dorrit was first published more than a century and a half ago, for in the novel (as Hair points out) Dickens is exposing and attacking that most difficult of social ills to define precisely, the one that people sometimes refer to as the 'system'... 'Nobody's fault' was Dickens's original title for the novel, and it is of course ironic: something that is 'nobody's fault' is everybody's fault.