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John Arpin
Keyboard Virtuoso
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Born and raised in Port McNicoll, John Arpin discovered his musical talents early: at the age of four he could pick out tunes on the piano that he had heard on the radio; by ten, he had been identified as a child prodigy by a Royal Conservatory of Music adjudicator. He would go on to become one of...
Big League Babble On
The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should Be Dead By Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest celebrities.
Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the...
500 Years of New Words
the fascinating story of how, when, and why these words first entered the English language
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed...
The Little Immigrants
The Orphans Who Came to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished...
Quarriers Story
One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields...
Sky Train
Stories from CBC's Fresh Air
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
What do Northtrop Frye, French dairy cows, and Historic Fort York have in common? They’re all part of Ward McBurney’s lyric and personal stories from CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, which are now available for the first time in print.
Broadcasting live on Saturday mornings, with Jeff Goodes as...
Light for a Cold Land
Lawren Harris's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist...
by Helen McLean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
The biggest surprise - and disappointment - that life holds is that it is over so fast. The golden tomorrow, to which most people (usually women) put off their hopes rarely appears. This is the lesson learned by Helen McLean in her memoir.
Details from a Larger Canvas is about a woman with...
by Evelyn Walters
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
An exploration into Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada’s most outstanding artists.
Today it is difficult to imagine that the art of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group was once shocking. As these Modernists struggled against academic art,...
The Way It Is
The Life of Greg Curnoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
First-ever biography and critical survey of a major artist who disrupted the Canadian art establishment
Features gorgeous colour reproductions of many of Curnoe’s most vivid and important paintings, which have not been collected together previously
A personal and intimate look at a major Canadian...
by Douglas Burnet Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast. In his latest collection of verse he takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through Amsterdam’s antique streets and canals, Tuscany’s sun-soaked landscapes,...
Nothing On But the Radio
A Look Back at Radio in Canada and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Radio made its debut in the early twentieth century, and the world was never the same. The mysterious magic box brought people together as no other communication medium had ever done. In Nothing On but the Radio, author Gil Murray tells how the new household toy put voices and music into millions...
by Mike Filey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today.
Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening days in the early 1920s to its final sad demolition in...
by Rabbi John Moscowitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Prominent Canadian rabbi John Moscowitz charts the shifts in his views over the years — controversial for some, exciting for others — on the issues that matter most to Jews today.
John Moscowitz spent his early twenties as an anti-Vietnam War activist. Eventually dubious about the radical...