Staying Human Through the Holocaust - Terez Mozes

Staying Human Through the Holocaust

Terez Mozes

Teréz Mózes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race. Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws, and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Teréz and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives.

This book donated by the University of Calgary Press

 

 

Prisoner of Cage Farm - Cecelia Frey

The Prisoner of Cage Farm

by Cecelia Frey

The McFaddens are a well-to-do country family who occupy Thorncliffe Heights in rural Alberta. Across the road, the Cage Farm can barely keep its household together. Still, Lewis McFadden, war veteran and incurable romantic, is hopelessly infatuated with the beautiful and mysterious Isabel Cage. Enter Emiline Thomas who answers a newspaper ad to be Isabel's tutor at the Cage Farm. Coming from big-city Toronto, Emiline is soon exposed to the harsh and uncompromising effect of the prairie landscape on her ability to survive an isolating and lonely experience. In a time before electricity, paved roads, and reliable vehicles, the clash between Emiline's urban upbringing and the Cages' monotonous prairie existence is inevitable.

This book was donated by

The University of Calgary Press

Missing Pieces - Olga Verrall

Missing Pieces: My Life as a Child Survivor of the Holocaust

 

Olga Verrall

This book donated for Bloody Words by the University of Calgary Press.

Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia - Lynda Mannik

Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia: Representation, Rodeo, and the RCMP at the Royal Easter Show, 1939

 

In 1939, a troupe of eight rodeo riders, accompanied by an RCMP officer, travelled to Sydney, Australia to compete in the Royal Easter Show. The men were expected to compete in various rodeo events, as well as to sell handicrafts at the fair's "Indian village," where they also camped. International competition in rodeo was very rare at the time, and the team proved to be a popular draw for Australian audiences. This little-known moment in Canadian history is explored in Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia. Author Lynda Mannik uniquely incorporates five different perspectives of the event: that of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales; the Canadian government; the eight First Nations men who participated; the RCMP officer who travelled with the team; and the Australian public.

This book is donated to the Bloody Words project by the University of Calgary Press.

Policing the Wild Northwest - Zhiqiu Lin

Policing the Wild North-West: 

A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32

 

Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere, and social progress. This book attempts to analyze the effects on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants, to prohibition bootleggers and black market profiteers. These factors placed enormous demands on the development of policing and had a significant impact on three specific and interrelated areas: first, the professionalization of police organizations within society, as evidenced by changes in policing technology, varying political agendas, and perhaps most importantly, within the police organizations themselves; second, the shifting of focus away from the "dangerous classes" and social agitators towards investigative procedures required for solving serious crime; and finally, the impact of policing on the rates of crime as influenced by the role of police officers as agents of social change and the value of social service in strengthening community and reducing the motivation towards criminal activity.

 This book donated by the University of Calgary Press

Give Your Other Vote to the Sister - Debbie Marshall

Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: 

A Woman's Journey into the Great War

by Debbie Marshall

Give Your Other Vote to the Sister tells the story of Roberta MacAdams, the first woman elected to the Alberta legislature. In fact, she was one of the first two women elected to a legislature anywhere in the British empire. Her triumph was extraordinary for many reasons. Not only did she run while serving as a nursing sister overseas during the Great War, but over 90 per cent of her electors were men Alberta soldiers stationed in England and in the muddy trenches of the Western Front.

This book was donated for the project by the University of Calgary Press.

Resurrecting Dr. Moss - Paul C. Appleton

Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880

 

 This book donated by the University of Calgary Press.