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Confessions of a Curator
Adventures in Canadian Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1996
In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario.
by Kate Braid
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
As a child she was "contrary,"as a young woman she defied convention to choose art over marriage, and as a middle-aged woman she was considered a full-blown eccentric. Listening to her own inner voice, Emily Carr created an art unique to British Columbia.
by Julian Porter, Q.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter's essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Rome and the Vatican, including the Sistine Chapel. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as...
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Florence and Venice. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe....
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Italy. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment...
Peter Gzowski
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski's days at the University of Toronto's The Varsity...
Syllables of Recorded Time
The Story of the Canadian Authors Association 1921-1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1981
Syllables of Recorded Time is a lively look at the development over the last six decades of a national authors’ association, with all its problems and foibles.
Personalities such as Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, Stephen Leacock, B.K. Sandwell, W.A. Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, John Murray Gibbon,...
"Just Mary"
The Life of Mary Evelyn Grannan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2006
Just Mary and Maggie Muggins are names that will arouse memories in those who grew up with CBC radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s. The creator of these and other children’s shows, former Fredericton schoolteacher Mary Grannan, became a radio star when she hit the national airwaves in 1939,...
by John Robert Colombo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests. Had this list been prepared by the editors of Michelin...
Life Before Stratford
The Memoirs of Amelia Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1990
By the time Amelia Hall died suddenly in December 1984 she had become one of Canada's most respected and well-loved actresses. In this book she has left an incomparable record of her early years in the professional theatre in Canada. In particular, these memoirs chronicle the history of the Canadian...
Reel Winners
Movie Award Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2005
Do you know which televised awards show gives a prize for "Favourite Smile"?
Or which Oscar host announced that he was going to raffle off a car during the ceremony?
Do you know who won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress of the 20th Century?
In Reel Winners,...
Simon Girty
Wilderness Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas / William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early...
Picasso Blues
A Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In this sequel to Free Form Jazz, Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are reunited in a city being ripped apart by fear, paranoia, and racism. With the police force decimated by a SARS-like disease, Tate and Brown are assigned to a task force targeting a series of murders that seem to be racially motivated....