Brought up in a strict and sheltered household, the daughter of a Mohawk chief and a non-native woman, Pauline Johnson struggled to make an independent life for herself. She found it as a poet and performer whose dramatic recitals skirted the boundaries of what was acceptable to "respectable" Canadian society. Her performances took her from the backwoods of British Columbia's gold country to the drawing rooms of England. Onstage she assumed the role of an Indian princess, while in her personal life she observed Victorian moral strictures, all the while falling regularly and desperately into unrequited love. Pauline is the fascinating story of a charismatic woman whose struggles with culture and identity still engage us today.

Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson (Goodread Biographies)

Keller, Betty

Humor & Entertainment

Goodread Biography

Pauline: A biography of Pauline Johnson

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Douglas&McIntyre

Traces the life of the naturalist, painter, and writer, describes his complex personality, and recounts his involvement in the founding of the Boy Scouts of America

Black Wolf: The Biography of Ernest Thompson Seton

Science & Math

Harpercollins

Black Wolf: The Life of Ernest Thompson Seton

This versatile text gives you two books in one! The first half of the book is composed of an ordered sequence of two dozen workshops in Creative Drama, introduced by a few words on the mechanics of classroom management and student preparation. Although some of the activities may appear frivolous on the surface, they conceal a deeper purpose: to lure your students into an addiction to drama and theatre! Each lesson plan is explained in detail yet invites teachers to put their own personal touch on it. While written for young teens, these lessons have been used with little modification for everyone from seven-year-olds to adults. The second half of the book consists of fourteen dramatic short plays. Written for two or three actors with running times of five to twelve minutes, each skit is accompanied by extensive production notes. Besides providing staging details, these notes offer discussion suggestions to involve the entire class and tie-ins to the lessons of the first half of the book. An ideal classroom text, the two halves of the book can be used simultaneously, with the dramatic sketches reinforcing the skills introduced in the lessons.

Improvisations in Creative Drama

Teen & Young Adult

Meriwether Pub

As education minister, Ray Williston introduced the idea of university education for teachers, among other then-radical innovations. As minister of lands and forests, he had his greatest impact. From the mega-power projects to improved forestry practices, all major industrial developments in interior and northern BC during the 1950s and 1960s had Williston's stamp on them.He oversaw the building of the Bennett Dam on the Peace River and subsequent flooding of the valley behind it -now called Williston Lake - and the flooding of the Arrow Lake and displacement of many people in the Kootenays, but he was a man of his times and was determined to pull rural British Columbia into the modern era.

Forests, Power and Policy: The Legacy of Ray Williston

Williston, Eileen

Historical

Caitlin Press Inc.

As education minister, Ray Williston introduced the idea of university education for teachers, among other then-radical innovations. As minister of lands and forests, he had his greatest impact. From the mega-power projects to improved forestry practices, all major industrial developments in interior and northern BC during the 1950s and 1960s had Williston's stamp on them. He oversaw the building of the Bennett Dam on the Peace River and subsequent flooding of the valley behind it -now called Williston Lake - and the flooding of the Arrow Lake and displacement of many people in the Kootenays, but he was a man of his times and was determined to pull rural British Columbia into the modern era.

Better the Devil You Know, set in Vancouver in 1907, centres on the picaresque adventures of a small-time con man who passes himself off as an evangelical preacher, the scrawny hooker whom he reluctantly befriends, and the five-year-old hellion left in his care by a former lady friend. In the course of their adventures, these three misfits become involved with a larcenous lingerie salesman, a Klondike miner bent on recovering his stolen poke, a madam intent on revenge for past wrongs, a pugilistic lady barkeep, two doctors determined to acquire a cadaver of their own, a handful of incompetent/ corrupt cops, and a piano teacher with reforming zeal. The pace is riotous, the action continuous, and nobody -- good or bad -- ever gets a break.

Better the Devil You Know

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

On the shady side: Vancouver, 1886-1914

Horsdal & Schubart

History of the Sunshine Coast northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. Illustrated with photos.

Bright seas, pioneer spirits: The Sunshine Coast

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Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson (Goodread Biographies)

Pauline: A biography of Pauline Johnson

Black Wolf: The Biography of Ernest Thompson Seton

Black Wolf: The Life of Ernest Thompson Seton

Improvisations in Creative Drama

Forests, Power and Policy: The Legacy of Ray Williston

Forests, Power and Policy: The Legacy of Ray Williston

Better the Devil You Know

On the shady side: Vancouver, 1886-1914

Bright seas, pioneer spirits: The Sunshine Coast