Culture and Society
John Bently-Mays Emerald City: Toronto Visited (Viking, o/p). Thoughtful critical essays about Toronto, its architecture and its inhabitants. David Cruise & Alison Griffiths The Great Adventure: How the Mounties conquered the West (St Martin's Press, US). Contemporary accounts of the Mounties' first major expedition into the West from the strange assortment of men who made up this legendary force. Beatrice Culleton April Raintree (Pemmican, Canada/Peguis, US). Heart-rending account of the enforced fostering of Metis children in Manitoba during the 1950s. Don Dumond The Eskimos and Aleuts (Thames & Hudson). Anthropological and archeological tour de force on the prehistory, history and culture of northern peoples: backed up with fine maps, drawings and photographs. Christian F. Feest Native Arts of North America (Thames & Hudson). This attractively illustrated book covers every aspect of North American native art in revealing detail. Everything you've ever wanted to know - and probably a good bit more. Paul Fleming The North American Indians in Early Photographs (Phaidon/HarperCollins, o/p in US). Stylized poses don't detract from a plaintive record of a way of life that has all but vanished. Glenn Gould The Solitude Trilogy (CBC PSCD 2003-3). These CDs comprise three extraordinary sound documentaries made by Gould for CBC (who also recorded his music) concerning life in the extreme parts of Canada. A fascinating insight into harsh lifestyles in the words of the people themselves. Alan D. McMillan Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada (Orca, US). Comprehensive account of Canada's native groups from prehistory to current issues of self-government and land claims. Well-written, though more an academic textbook than a leisure-time read. Dennis Reid A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Oxford University Press). Not especially concise, but a thorough trawl through Canada's leading artists, with bags of biographical detail and lots of black-and-white (and a few colour) illustrations of major works. Mordecai Richler Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (Chatto & Windus/Knopf). A satirical chronicle of the hysteria, zeal and chicanery surrounding Quebec's independence movement. Harold Towne and David P. Silcox Tom Thomson: The Silence in the Storm (McClelland & Stewart, o/p). A study of the career and inspirations of Tom Thomson, one of Canada's best-known artists. Towne, the co-writer, is also a major Canadian artist. The True North - Canadian Landscape Painting 1896-1939 (Lund Humphries). A fascinating and well-illustrated book exploring how Canadian artists have treated the country's challenging landscapes. William White (ed) The Complete Toronto Dispatches, 1920-1924 (Charles Scribners Sons). Ernest Hemingway's first professional writing job was with The Toronto Star as both a local reporter and as a European correspondent. This is a collection of his dispatches for the paper.
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