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Tag: Nunavut

Umingmak: A fine new memoir of N.W.T. Commissioner Stuart Hodgson

I enjoyed this detailed, first-person account of peak colonialism in the N.W.T.

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Northerners: 24 short, but vivid, biographies from 1989

These 24 capsule biographies from 30 years ago still do the trick.

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A Plain Language Guide to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Well-written and beautifully packaged.

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The Right to Be Cold: Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s urgent memoir

Earnest memoir recounts minute details of a fascinating life, bureaucratic tussles included.

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A former CBC-er wrote a novel about a classical musician’s escape to Iqaluit

In Joe Fiorito’s 2002 novel, a concert pianist runs away from the Toronto cultural scene and into the arms of a not-even-thinly disguised Bryan Pearson. 

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Al Purdy’s 1965 trip “North of Summer,” to Baffin Island

Clear and honest poetry from the irreverent, truth telling Al Purdy. Who knew?

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Whatever you do, do not read Arctic: A Novel, by Finn Schultz-Lorentzen

Let the public rest assured: when a forty-plus-year-old novel is totally forgotten and remains obscure and hard to find, there’s a reason for that.

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Jordin Tootoo’s All the Way: A hockey redemption story

“What? Really? I made it? I’m in the NHL? Holy fuck,” writes Jordin Tootoo in this 2014 autobiography. “The next thing you know, I was a household name in Nashville.”

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In Saqiyuq, 3 oral histories read like great fiction — full of suspense, drama and revelations

This is, quite simply, an amazing book.

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Boundless: Kathleen Winter takes a cruise

Terrible garbage.

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