Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Saskatchewan Sentinels A to Z
The Prairie Art of Herman J. Friesen by Herman Friesen and June Friesen
The images in this book have been organized in alphabetical order. As you journey through the alphabet, each image depicts a Saskatchewan town with the stately elevators that were so essential to the settlement and growth of the province. You will ...
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The Forgotten Legend
The Life Story of John Wilson McLaren O.S.A. Canadian Artist, Illustrator and Actor 1895-1988 by Shawn Henshall
For generations, Canadian artists have made their mark on the world, with countless individuals rising to fame on stage and screen, and as frontrunners in the various arts, inspiring and influencing all who come after them. One of these legends ...
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A Work in Progress
The Life my Brother Saved by Michael R. Gaudet
Following the success of his first book, Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality, the Canadian artist, author, and kidney health advocate Michael R. Gaudet brings us the second part to his captivating trilogy of memoirs. A Work in ...
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Chasing the Muse: Canada
by Lloyd Walton
By adapting a code of conduct at a young age (the Code of the Trail), Lloyd embarked on a lifelong quest to live out his every dream. He became a pilot, he had a brush with the big time in the NHL, he flew with the Snowbirds, he had remarkable ...
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Sketches From Siberia
The Life of Jacob D.Sudermann by Werner Toews
A poignant biography of Jacob Davidovitch Sudermann, a teacher and artist from a Russian Mennonite community who, like so many others, fell victim to the bloodthirsty paranoia of the Stalinist purges and died in a Siberian gulag in 1937. Sketches ...
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Etched in Time
by Jo Manning
A small town childhood of mysteries and secrecy in the years after one war. Discovering new worlds as a student at the Ontario College of Art during a second war. Marriage, betrayal, divorce and an artistic career as one of Canada’s foremost ...
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Red Fred's Dead
An autobiography of a Kid from San Diego by Angelo La Jolla
This is a highly entertaining, fast -moving, vibrant account of the life of a man who didn't always take the obvious pathways, but always made the most of the pathways he found himself along. This book offers a great deal of colorful detail about ...
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Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
by Michael R. Gaudet
In 1979, at age 19, Michael Gaudet was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Thanks to a kidney transplant from his brother, Michael survived and later rose to prominence as a Canadian painter of monumental murals. Dancing With Rejection: A ...
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Sent to the USA
by Sebastian "Chany" Almazan
About the Book Sebastian "Chany" Almazan was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on August 9, 1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, Japan. Little did he know the role war was going to play in his life. Chany enjoyed a carefree life as a ...
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Animate Universe
Lesley Sirluck: A Life in Art by Katherine Sirluck
When it comes to the role played by Canadian women artists in the first half of the 20th century, there is a glaring hole in our documented history. The memory of one artist now reaches up from the backwaters of domestic life. Lesley McNaught ...
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