In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums.
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Author:Sommers, Evelyn
Summary:"I’ve got to stop being so nice." How often has Dr. Evelyn Sommers heard that from her clients over the years?
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Author:Rains, Olga
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,Jarratt, Melynda
Summary:Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots.
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Author:Mudry, Andrea
Summary:"For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother. She's really attractive ...
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Author:Robinson, Helen Caister
Summary:Decades of Caring: The Big Sister Story is a record of the trials, errors, and accomplishments of an organization of Toronto women who have carried a torch for youth through good years and bad from
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Author:Poling, Sr., Jim
Summary:A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother?
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Author:Ruprecht, Tony
Summary:Toronto is truly a city of communities.
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Author:Spencer, Emily
Summary:The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability.
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Author:Duncan, Dorothy
Summary:Feasting and Fasting is an introduction to the foods and beverages that were a central part of how our ancestors celebrated important events.
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Author:Douglas, Stephen
Summary:In Africa, every minute of every day, five people die of AIDS and nine more are newly infected.
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Author:Bourrie, Mark
Summary:A collection of the best journalism from Canada’s wars, from the time of the Vikings to the war in Afghanistan.
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Author:Skene-Melvin, David
Summary:Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve
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Author:Picard, Cheryl A.
Summary:This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator.
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Author:Pfaus, Brenda
Summary:Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers.
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Author:Chan, Arlene
Summary:The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life.
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