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"In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part o...
Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario, is "stolen" from her family at age six and flown to a residential school. Ten years later, Martha finds her way home again, and while trying to drown her terrib...
"Seasons of Hope traces the author's life, from his impoverished Native childhood to him being appointed an ambassador for Canada in numerous countries and lieutenant governor for Ontario (in the latter post, he mobilize...
Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Nat...
À L'âge de six ans, Martha est enlevée à sa famille de la Première Nation de Cat Lake, dans le Nord de l'Ontario, pour être emmenée par avion dans un pensionnat indien. Là, elle sera punie pour avoir parlé sa la...
From his humble origins as an Aboriginal child whose first home was a tent near a dump in Muskoka, Ontario, Bartleman rose to become a legend in Canada's foreign service. He served as ambassador to Cuba, Israel, South Af...
James Bartleman, Ontarios first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his ...
James Bartleman, Ontarios first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his ...
In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvert...
From his humble origins as an Aboriginal child whose first home was a tent near a dump in Muskoka, Ontario, Bartleman rose to become a legend in Canada's foreign service. He served as ambassador to Cuba, Israel, South Af...
Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Nat...
The memoirs of James Bartleman, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, detailing his rise from poverty and discrimination to the top of the diplomatic and vice-regal life. Born in 1939, Bartleman grew up in a canvas tent and a ...