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English 60

This research guide will give you suggestions for finding resources for your historical event/time period essay.

English 60

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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


 

Reading List

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If the library has a title, the call number is in brackets.

Residential Schools

Five Little Indians – Michelle Good   (GOODM FIVE)

Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese  (WAGAM INDIAN)

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  (URQUHA STONE)

Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches – Charles Yale Harrison

Broken Ground – Jack Hodgins

Tell – Francis Itani

Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden (BOYDEN THREE)

Rilla of Ingleside – L.M. Montgomery

Barometer Rising – Hugh McLennan

Deafening – Francis Itani

The Deep – Mary Swan

The Birth House – Amy McKay (MCKAYA BIRTH)

War Time Poetry Canada

 

Japanese Internment Camps

Obasan – Joy Kigawa (PS 8521 O44 O23 1981)

The Electrical Field – Kerri Sakamoto

Forgiveness: a gift from my grandparents – Mark Sakamoto (FC 106 J3 S23 2014)

Requiem – Frances Itani

Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography – Terry Watada (PS 8595 A79 D37 1997)

 

Halifax Explosion

Barometer Rising – Hugh Maclennan

Black Snow : A Story of Love and Destruction – Jon Tattrie

Burden of Desire – Robert Macneil

Glass Voices - Carol Bruneau

Irish Chain - Barbara Haworth-Attard

When the World Fell Silent - Donna Jones

 

Oka Crisis

Where I Belong – Tara White (eBook in Canada Commons)

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 (eBook in Canada Commons)

Intertidal Life – Audrey Thomas (PS 8539 H62 I5 1984)

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