Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada

Autobiography still sounds to me like something you do to yourself when you know you shouldn’t, a rough equivalent of self-inflicted dentistry. It’s an otherwise problematic word, too – in the word biography there’s an ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Biting the Dust

By Margaret Horsfield

Margaret Horsfield began her personal odyssey through the broom closet door with a fight about housework. When the dust settled, the British Columbia-based contributor to The Guardian, CBC, and BBC radio turned her considerable research ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence

By Sandy Friedman

When Sandy Friedman created the “Girls in the ’90s” discussion group to help young women deal with eating disorders, she anticipated a positive response. And she got one – from parents, educators, and psychologists. But ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe

By Martha Fleming with Lyne Lapointe and Lesley Johnstone

Studiolo is both the title of an installation recently held at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the book form of site projects by two of Canada’s top artists, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe. The ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World

By Keith Banting,George Hoberg, Richard Simeon, eds.

Canadians have always argued about how vigorously to resist the economic and cultural pull of the United States – and never more so than in the era of free trade. For the left, the possibility ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Great Dames

By Elspeth Cameron,Janice Dickin, eds.

Great Dames is a great title, and a fitting one, for this collection of short biographies of 20th-century Canadian women. The editors and contributors are all feminist scholars, but you don’t have to be a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canadian Sourcebook 1997

By Barbara Law,ed.

It is the policy of the editors of the annual Canadian Sourcebook, formerly known as the Corpus Almanac and Sourcebook, to include significant changes each year – changes suggested by its users. For 1997, the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Place Names of Ontario

By Alan Rayburn

One of the guilty little secrets of those who read biographies of people they know is that they invariably look in the index first to see if they are listed. Relief, exultation, or anger can ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Beyond the Waterfall

By Elaine Breault Hammond

Maggie, a teen orphan who lives with her aunt in New Brunswick, is once again transported into the past in Hammond’s second historical time travel novel – this time, into a Manitoban pioneer settlement. She ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Half-Pipe Kidd

By Alison Acheson

As his unusual name suggests, Ogilvie Kidd struggles with a double identity. He’s usually known as Kidd, the freestyle BMX bike rider who takes air on his backyard half-pipe, revelling in the sheer physical edge ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

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