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LiseWorks
Our Flag: The Story of Canada's Maple Leaf | Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland
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The French wrote this song first by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, and then Robert Stanley wrote the English version in 1908. #JulyJazz Flag @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Such a beautiful flag 🇨🇦 1mo
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Part history, part travel book, Disappointment River looks back at the life and effort of Alexander Mackenzie to find the NW Passage in 1789. Castner then recreates the voyage along the river that now bears Mackenzie‘s name. I really enjoyed this! I thought both parts were done so well.

Cuilin One of my favorite non traditional shanties is about this search for the Northwest Passage. Stacked. 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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melissajayne
Canada: A People's History | Don Gillmor, Pierre Turgeon, Achille Michaud
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Happy Canada Day from me and my Finch, Bookworm. #canadaday

peanutnine Oh I love your finch! Wanna be friends? Here's my friend code BYKGQPT5JW ☺️ 2mo
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LiseWorks
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This post is mot meant to be political but never before have Canadians flown this flag before Donald Trumps wishes for Canada do become 51st State. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 🤍 🇨🇦 ❤️ 3mo
dabbe ♥️🇨🇦♥️ 3mo
kspenmoll ❤️🤍🇨🇦 3mo
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xicanti
The Knowing | Tanya Talaga
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THE KNOWING is intense; both an in-depth history of the harm perpetuated against Indigenous people on Turtle Island and a personal look at the impact on Tanya Talaga‘s own family.

It‘s also one of many, many, MANY books I‘ve read about the evil done by various Christian churches over the last 500 years, and I realize I‘ve never read anything in which a Christian writer reckons with this horrific legacy. Can any of you recommend one to me?

BarbaraJean In the last couple years I‘ve read The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone and The Four Vision Quests of Jesus—both by BIPOC Christian writers. I‘d highly recommend both. These may not be exactly what you‘re looking for, not directly written in order to reckon with the church‘s legacy of harm (at least not broadly), but both very relevant to that topic. 3mo
xicanti @BarbaraJean thank you so much! I‘ll look for both. 3mo
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“My first encounter with the originality of Canadian French-speaking cultures came at an early age, when living in Ottawa during the 1950s. It was immediately apparent that the French taught in English- language public schools belonged to a world apart from the everyday French spoken in the streets.” #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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While it was lovely to hear the Cree in this book spoken aloud, I don't think audiobook was the best choice for this, as the print copy is full of art! The book traces the literal beginning of time to 19th cent. from the perspective of a queer Cree shape-shifting immortal being. Often funny, very sexy, and scathing. Europeans come out looking, rightly so, as heartless idiots. I would have liked more content that didn't focus on colonization.

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LiseWorks
Our Canadian Flag | Maxine Trottier
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Happy Flag Day, Canada 🇨🇦

lil1inblue Happy Flag Day from a neighbor in Michigan! 7mo
Ruthiella 🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦 7mo
dabbe 🇨🇦❣️🇨🇦 7mo
JuniperWilde 🇨🇦 6mo
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SarahBookInterrupted
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This wasn‘t like anything else I‘ve ever read. I read the audiobook and recommend for the Cree spoken in it but will borrow a copy to browse the amazing art. This book has mythology, history, art, sex (a lot),culture and mind bending perspectives. Miss Chief is a shapeshifter, non-gendered, demi-god, lover, and heroine. It‘s the story of the beginning of existence to first contact with European settlers on turtle island. ⬇️

SarahBookInterrupted It‘s an amazing history book. When I first started the book I was overwhelmed with the sheer amount of sex, but as you read it, it becomes normalized. And by the end it almost helps you to be able to ingest the horrible things that the colonizers culture deem as acceptable. I‘d recommend this book, it‘s a true piece of art. (edited) 7mo
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