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Selected New Titles November 2017 November Recent Additions to the Library Collection Recent Additions to the Library Our services………………………… p. 3 2 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT November 2017 Contents Legislative Library News .................................................................................................. 3 Librarian’s Picks .............................................................................................................. 4 Mapmaker : Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment ........................... 4 Claiming Anishinaabe : decolonizing the human spirit ..................................................... 4 Out of old Manitoba kitchens ........................................................................................ 5 Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey ................. 5 Lake Superior to Manitoba by canoe : mapping the route into the heart of the continent ... 6 New titles to borrow for November 2017 ........................................................................... 7 Agriculture & Food ................................................................................................... 7 Biography ................................................................................................................ 7 Culture, Sports & Tourism ......................................................................................... 7 Economics, Finance & Taxation ................................................................................. 8 Education & Training ................................................................................................ 8 Environment ............................................................................................................ 9 Government ............................................................................................................. 9 Health ..................................................................................................................... 9 Heritage & History .................................................................................................... 9 Indigenous Issues ................................................................................................... 10 International Issues ................................................................................................. 11 Labour & Employment ............................................................................................. 11 Law & Justice .......................................................................................................... 11 Media & Communication .......................................................................................... 12 Natural Resources & Energy ..................................................................................... 12 Politics .................................................................................................................... 12 Science, Technology & Innovation ............................................................................ 13 Security, Policing & the Military ................................................................................. 13 Social Issues ........................................................................................................... 13 Urban Issues ........................................................................................................... 14 Manitoba Heritage titles for November 2017 .................................................................... 16 Agriculture & Food .................................................................................................. 16 Biography ............................................................................................................... 16 Books for Children ................................................................................................... 17 Culture, Sports & Tourism ........................................................................................ 17 Education & Training ............................................................................................... 17 Environment ........................................................................................................... 17 Health .................................................................................................................... 18 Heritage & History ................................................................................................... 18 Indigenous Issues ................................................................................................... 20 International Issues ................................................................................................. 20 Manitoba Fiction & Literature .................................................................................... 20 Science, Technology & Innovation ............................................................................ 21 Request form for Selected New Titles November 2017 ...................................................... 22 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT November 2017 3 Legislative Library News You Ask, We Answer As the busyness of the winter season fast approaches, the Legislative Library would like to remind you about the wide variety of services we offer. If a research question is proving challenging or a needed piece of information cannot be located, do not hesitate to ask a library staff member for assistance, by phone, email or in person. We are always happy to help our members, their caucuses, and all staff of the Legislative Assembly and the Government of Manitoba. If a book, report, or hard to find publication is not available in our online catalogue, please ask us about ordering a copy for you to borrow. A variety of databases are available on your desktop via the Legislative Library. If a database is not providing the search results you were hoping for, please contact library staff. They will assist you in locating the information you require. 4 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT November 2017 Librarian’s Picks was "not marry'd brot up in farming business." The account continues through the surveyor's life in the wilderness, his encounters with the Cree and marriage to a Cree woman, and the realities of working for the king while enduring badly provisioned camps. Narrated in two "voices," the primary one a detailed history gleaned from material in HBC Mapmaker : Philip archives and elsewhere, Turnor in Rupert’s Land Mitchell's chronicle also Claiming Anishinaabe : in the Age of offers "journal entries," decolonizing the human Enlightenment / Barbara which she composed as Mitchell. Turnor. Both devices are spirit / Lynn Gehl. Regina : University of Regina effective; while the historical Regina : University of Regina Press, 2017. xxiv, 327 pages. portion is marred slightly by Press, 2017. xiv, 212 pages. overly frequent speculation, Find this book in our Find this book in our it is based upon meticulous catalogue catalogue research—for example, a discussion of the canoe Review from Library From the publisher: Turnor likely used is Journal Reviews: supported with details on Denied her Indigenous This biography of the first Cree vessels. There are a status, Lynn Gehl has been inland surveyor for Canada's number of reproductions of fighting her entire life to Hudson's Bay Company period maps and other reclaim mino-pimadiziwin-- (HBC) is a testament to the illustrations, as well as high- the good life. Exploring benefits of rigorous quality notes and Anishinaabeg philosophy and genealogical research. bibliography sections. Anishinaabeg conceptions of Mitchell's investigation of her VERDICT Where books on truth, Gehl shows how she great-great-great-great Canada, indigenous life, came to locate her spirit and grandfather Philip Turnor exploration, or genealogy are decolonize her identity, (1751–99) starts with HBC's favorites, this historical thereby becoming, in her hiring of an "observer" who account is a must. words, "fully human." Gehl MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT November 2017 5 also provides a harsh critique pioneer cuisine dating back Dryden, a member of the of Canada and takes on to the fur trade and beyond. Hockey Hall of Fame, was important anti-colonial See how wave after wave of the primary goalkeeper for battles, including sex immigration brought with the Montreal Canadian teams discrimination in the Indian them their own recipes. in the 1970s that won six Act and the destruction of Feast on memories of food Stanley Cups. He's also the sacred places. prepared on the campfire, author of The Game (1983), the hearth and the cast iron arguably the best book about stove, from the trails of the hockey ever, and he was a buffalo hunt to the outdoor member of the Canadian kitchens of the early settlers. parliament and a cabinet minister. Here he examines the rise of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among professional hockey players by building on the life of Steve Montador and branching off into the lives of other players and the state of the science researching the disease. Montador was the type of grit-and-grind Out of old Manitoba player fans love. He carved kitchens / Christine out a career as a Hanlon. defenseman by working Lunenburg : MacIntyre harder than his competitors Purcell Publishing, 2017. 240 Game change : the life to overcome a lack of size pages. and death of Steve and natural athleticism, but he eventually suffered