Towards the end of Lorri Neilsen Glenn's enthralling memoir-like journey of discovery Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (2017, Wolsak & Wynn), she states: "When we consider countless horrors in the world, innumerable disasters and catastrophes, a ship consumed by fire on a late summer night is but only one.… Continue reading
According to the Diabetes Canada website, there are 11 million Canadians living with diabetes or prediabetes. Every three minutes, another Canadian is diagnosed. For the James Bay Cree living in the territory of Eeyou Istchee in Northern Quebec, "fully one-third of the adults have been diagnosed with type 2 or gestational diabetes and more remain … Continue reading The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee by Ruth DyckFehderau… Continue reading
Woodstock, New Brunswick's Chapel Street Editions must be one of this province's best-kept publishing secrets. I found out about them quite by accident when another author mentioned one of their books they recently read (the novel Taapoategl & Pallet, which I plan to read soon).… Continue reading
Silver Donald Cameron is one of Canada’s most versatile and experienced professional authors and is the host and executive producer of TheGreenInterview.com, a subscription-based website with interviews (100 and counting!) of people from all parts of the globe and with every type of background imaginable.… Continue reading
to The Last Beothuk (2017, Flanker Press), Mr Collins' last book was Desperation: The Queen of Swansea (2016, Flanker Press), which won a "The Very Best!" Book Award in the Historical Fiction category for that year. At the time, I posited that Mr Collins was at the top of his storytelling game.… Continue reading
Canadian author David Cozac was born and raised in Toronto. He works for the United Nations. In the past, he worked for several human rights organizations, including PEN Canada and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Finishing the Road (2017, Tightrope Books) is Mr Cozac's debut novel and it certainly augurs well for any future books … Continue reading Finishing the Road by David Cozac… Continue reading
-winning author Jon Tattrie, whose most recent book, Redemption Songs (2016, Potterfield Press) was about the history of Black Africans in North America, has turned his attention to one of the most prominent First Nations personages, Daniel N. Paul, Mi'kmaw Elder.… Continue reading
Sgt. Windflower Mystery series is a series of cozy mysteries set in the small Newfoundland town of Grand Bank where Sgt. Winston Windflower is the top cop in the RCMP detachment there. The latest instalment in the series, A Tangled Web (2017, Baico Publishing), has just been released.… Continue reading
Mi'kmaq Elder Daniel Paul is an outspoken champion for First Nations People. His first book, We Were Not the Savages, is now in its third edition. Chief Lightning Bolt is Mr Paul's first foray into fictional history and is an attempt to portray how the Mi'kmaq people lived, in particular their way of life and … Continue reading Chief Lightning Bolt by Daniel N.… Continue reading
"Evolution of the Gespe'gewa'gi Mi'gmaq" (2016, Fernwood Publishing) this book is the product of years of research commissioned by the organization that represents the three communities of the Mi'gmaq that inhabit the northern part of the Gaspé Peninsula. It also involves the work of the community's Elders (both oral and written stories), so it is … Continue reading Nta’tugwaqanminen (Our Story) by the Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’qmawei Mawiomi… Continue reading
was by sheer happenstance that I came across Rick Revelle and his two historical novels: I am Algonquin and Algonquin Springs (2013 and 2015, Dundurn Press). I was in Kingston (Ontario) visiting family when an article in that day's edition of the Kingston Whig-Standard about a man who had written some "books about Indians" was brought to … Continue reading The Rick Revelle Interview… Continue reading
Wake the Stone Man (2015, Roseway Publishing) is Nova Scotia author Carol McDougall's latest novel and it is a very thought-provoking one. It won the 2013 Beacon Award for social justice literature, which is a prize for an unpublished novel. The issue of the mistreatment of Aboriginal children in residential schools set up by the … Continue reading Wake the Stone Man by Carol McDougall… Continue reading