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This guide will help you find Canadian Literature and historical research resources. If you need any research help please email Ken Laing, Instructional Services and Digital Initiatives Librarian: klaing@selkirk.ca
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Residential Schools
Five Little Indians – Michelle Good
Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
In Search of April Raintree – Beatrice Mosionier
The Train - Jodie Callaghan, illustrated by Georgia Lesley
Porcupines and China Dolls - Robert Arthur Alexie
World War Fiction
The Stone Carvers – Jane Urquhart
Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches – Charles Yale Harrison
Broken Ground – Jack Hodgins
Tell – Francis Itani
Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden
Rilla of Ingleside – L.M. Montgomery
Barometer Rising – Hugh McLennan
Deafening – Francis Itani
The Deep – Mary Swan
Japanese Internment Camps
Obasan – Joy Kigawa
The Electrical Field – Kerri Sakamoto
Forgiveness: a gift from my grandparents – Mark Sakamoto
Requiem – Frances Itani
Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography – Terry Watada
Halifax Explosion
The Birth House – Amy McKay
Barometer Rising – Hugh Maclennan
Black Snow : A Story of Love and Destruction – Jon Tattrie
Burden of Desire – Robert Macneil
Oka Crisis
Where I Belong – Tara White
Oka Nada (poem) – Kaushalya Bannerji
Sundogs – Lee Maracle
Hippie Movement 1960s – 1970s
The Rooming House – Michael Kluckner
The Hippies Who Meant It: A Novel about Americans and Canadians Who Went Back to the Land in the Sixties – Seymour Hamilton
Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays – Amiel Gladstone
Intertidal Life – Audrey Thomas