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November 7th Is International Inuit Day!
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2025"Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged.…Catalogue Item
2022"Loon and Raven are best friends. They love to sew clothes for each other. But when Raven won’t hold still to be measured for a new coat Loon is making, Loon gets mad. What happens when these two…Catalogue Item
2024"'Inuit games have been played all over the Arctic for a very long time. They are played for fun, to practise survival skills, and as exercise.' Discover everything about Inuit games in Arviat,…Catalogue Item
2019Meet a real-life Inuit hero! This book introduces the biography genre while teaching children about the life of Harry Okpik and the history of dogsledding.Catalogue Item
A True Story2020"The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential…Catalogue Item
2024"Counting book about counting bears in English and Inuktitut."--Provided by publisher.
November 5th Is I Read Canadian Day. Don’t Ghost These Books!
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Legends, Folklore and Other Tales : Stories of A Haunted Stittsville. Volumes 1-32022"A haunted farm, wailing women foretelling death, the sound of ghostly music, strange noises recorded in the woods and much, much more. Those are only some of the tales contained in this collection…Catalogue Item
Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region2016Catalogue Item
Graphic Novel, Volume 2, Four More Terrifying Tales2025"The bestselling Haunted Canada books are now a best-selling graphic novel series! Four more spine-tingling stories from award-winning author Joel A. Sutherland have been adapted into chilling…Catalogue Item
The Fourth Terrifying Collection2025"This epic collection gathers more than sixty-five spine-tingling tales from across Canada that are sure to please fans of all things haunted. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout…
Remembering Canadian Author and Military Historian Tim Cook
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How Canadians Survived the Great War2018"Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, offers a surprising portrayal of how soldiers found solace, distraction and entertainment to escape the horrors of the trenches during the Great War.…Catalogue Item
Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War2022"The perception of medical care on the Great War battlefield recalls scenes from the American Civil War fifty years earlier: blood-soaked surgeons hacking off limbs with grim determination as broken…Catalogue Item
How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War2024"[An] account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together…Catalogue Item
75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War2020A "telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a…
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