Product Description: Masters of the Crafts

Product Description: This highly readable account presents the first overview of craft activity as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organizations, education, and government involvement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides photographs of and texts discussing pieces of Inuit artwork from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization as well as from the collection of James Houston, organized by geographic area.

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Product Description: Two late precontact/early contact Inuvialuit (Inuit) archaeological sites in the western Canadian Arctic offer glimpses into the autumn trek of the Inuvialuit away from the coast to procure caribou meat, hides, and other materials...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This richly illustrated book recounts the stories behind the magnificent totem poles and traditional houses on display in the Grand Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The stories that surround the human, animal and supernatural figures that appear on Native totem poles, in housefront paintings and in sculptures are vividly retold and interpreted according to their symbolic meaning. The importance of myths today is explored: because myths represent archetypes, or patterns of life and thought, they are universally valid, and reveal the dynamic processes at work within the human psyche. Raven`s Village gives insight into the traditional lifestyle of the six cultural groups represented in the exhibition - the Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Central Coast, Nuxalk, Haida and Tsimshian. The book also describes the reconstructed archaeological dig at the far end of the Grand Hall. The dig represents over 5,000 years of Native habitation, and illustrates many strong cultural traditions that continue to find expression in the modern world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this autobiography, Nelma Sillanpää gives a warm and often humorous account of her experiences growing up in a Finnish immigrant community in northeastern Canada. She describes life in lumber camps and mining towns, the impact of the Great Depression, and the experience of waiting for Finnish men to come home after World War II...read more

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Product Description: The Arctic Odyssey of Diamond Jenness, presented here with the immediacy and humanity of a private journal, simply could not now happen. That Arctic world of 1913-165 no longer exists. Its climate and geography remain, but the people, their ways of living, feeling, thinking, believing, and behaving, vanished and are now only lost, vague memories in a few, very old minds...read more

Product Description: Book by Hall, Judy, Oakes, Jill E., Webster, Sally Qimmiu'Naaq

Product Description: Icelandic-Canadian Popular Verse

Product Description: Twelve women artists and writers open this rare window on the northern world of the Inuit. From the nine artists, reminiscences of life on the land and thoughtful comments on the sources of inspiration for their art are interwoven with vivid images of a unique culture and a stern landscape...read more

Product Description: Almost 40 years have gone into the creation of this dictionary. It is, in the authorÕs own words, Òa labor of loveÓ prepared to record a language that he feared might Òsoon be spoken no more.Ó The Western Abenakis live in Odanak Quebec, and the Missisquoi Bay region of Lake Champlain...read more

Product Description: For more than three hundred years, the history of our postal service been closely linked with the development of Canada. Postal communications have helped Canadians keep in touch from the days when letters were passed from hand to hand by travellers, to the lightning fast electronic mail of today...read more