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  • Grey and black banner image with the cover of Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold and text reading "Excerpt from Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold by Jessica Outram". Background on either side of the image echoes the background used on the cover of the book: the grey waters of a stormy bay
    Grey and black banner image with the cover of Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold and text reading "Excerpt from Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold by Jessica Outram". Background on either side of the image echoes the background used on the cover of the book: the grey waters of a stormy bay
    June 29, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from Jessica Outram's Historical Métis Adventure Story, Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold

    In many ways, Bernice, the heroine of Métis author and teacher Jessica Outram's Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold (Second Story Press), is like any other eight-year-old: she lives with her family, ...

  • Get a Glimpse into CanLit Icon Tomson Highway's Funny, Poignant Massey Lecture, Laughing with the Trickster
    Get a Glimpse into CanLit Icon Tomson Highway's Funny, Poignant Massey Lecture, Laughing with the Trickster
    September 12, 2022

    Get a Glimpse into CanLit Icon Tomson Highway's Funny, Poignant Massey Lecture, Laughing with the Trickster

    The CBC Massey Lectures series has curated some of the finest minds in the country on subjects as diverse as race, climate change, technology, and more.For 2022, the lecture comes from no less than an ...

  • Sharon King on How Her Beautiful New Picture Book Can Support Learners of the Ojibwe Language
    Sharon King on How Her Beautiful New Picture Book Can Support Learners of the Ojibwe Language
    January 27, 2022

    Sharon King on How Her Beautiful New Picture Book Can Support Learners of the Ojibwe Language

    Sharon King's Amik (Kegedonce Press) is a gentle and welcoming journey into the natural world. Amik means beaver in the Ojibwe language, and each page features Anishinaabemowin and English words to tell ...

  • Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature
    Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature
    January 22, 2021

    Claiming Space for Indigenous Languages in English Literature

    English is the language of the colonizer. It came with the arrival of settlers to what many people call Turtle Island, or North America. It is a relatively new language to this land, and has only been ...

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