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Cats, Dogs and Humans

$15.00

What happens when a solitude-craving writer hears a cat meowing outside his window all night long, or what a refrigerator tells its visitors and the world around it, from its perspective?

Michel Larocque

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Continental Drift

$13.00

Two travelers embark on a trip from the Maine coast to Vancouver, British Columbia, while enjoying a slice of life in the 21st century. En route they encounter various detours and conflicts between old world ethics and contemporary freedom and absence of values.

P. Masterson

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Don’t Everyone Jump at Once, Columns and other misguided notions

$17.00

What would you like to know?

The real made-up rules of rugby?

Society’s failure to properly honour the long john?

The power secrets of MEtivation?

How to perform a body scan on the Prime Minister?

What to do when you discover slime in your Gatorade?

Fifty ways to say “I love you”?

Something that rhymes with “borscht”?

Ross Murray has all the answers. If only someone would ask him the questions. All you really need to know is that this collection of observations about the weirdness and wonders of life will leave you laughing and jumping for joy.

Ross Murray

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Eastern Townships Saint: Lily Esther Butter

$21.00

Lily Butters was the wife of a World War I vet and farmer. She and her husband had immigrated to Canada from England in 1929. In 1947, at the age of 53, she founded a centre in Austin (East Bolton), Quebec for mentally disabled children (including many Down Syndrome sufferers) and named it in memory of her dead son, Cecil. She continually expanded her farmhouse until the centre housed over 400 children by 1966. Her influence is still felt today by hundreds of (past and current) beneficiaries, parents and Butters employees. This is Lily’s story: the beginning, the crises, the triumphs, the end of the original Butters centre and the rebirth of Lily’s legacy through new Butters organizations.

Françoise Hamel-Beaudoin

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Eeyou Istchee

$53.00

Thirty-five years ago, the Quebec government signed a landmark accord with indigenous peoples in the northern reaches of the province after it initiated the first of several large-scale hydroelectric projects in James Bay. Since then, the once-nomadic Cree of the region have undergone dramatic changes in their way of life. Today they reside in self-governed modern communities. But the bush and the traditions that evolved there remain central to their identity, as Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree so eloquently bears witness. This book is the most comprehensive photo essay ever produced on the Cree people of eastern James Bay. It features more than two hundred photographs by Louise Abbott and Niels Jensen, along with a trilingual text based largely on interviews with Cree residents. The sensitive images portray the annual cycle of activities among the Cree, including summer gatherings, the fall moose hunt, winter wellness journeys (or “winter walks,” as they’re often called), and the spring goose hunt. They also highlight the flora, fauna, and geography of Eeyou Istchee, as the Cree call their far-flung territory.

Louise Abbott

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Even the Owl is Not Heard: David Thompson’s 1834 Journals in the Eastern Townships of Quebec

$33.00

Editors Barbara Verity and Gilles Péloquin recently discovered that world-renowned explorer and map-maker David Thompson explored and surveyed part of the Eastern Townships in 1834. His previously unpublished daily journals are transcribed and annotated in this ground-breaking and superbly illustrated work.

Excerpts from Thompson’s Eastern Townships journals of 1834:

May 25: A fine morning and day. By 11 am got the Skow and everything up. The Men much fatigued, let them rest until after dinner, when we set off… As usual a series of Rapids, in which we saw many Salmon Trout, and caught 24 of them…. The general character of the River to day, is low land near the River, the Points particularly so, on the Bay sides of the River. The Land soon rises with Pines, and some hard wood, with moss covered boulders of Rock of all sizes, heavy to clear, and no ways tempting to the Farmer, but behind appears a fine Country of hard wood.

June  17: Our Provisions are now so reduced, that I got the whole collected and put  close by me and insisted upon every one living wholly upon the Fish caught by  angling.

July 2: As Louis, our Indian, crossed, for only one could  cross at a time, this Bridge gave way. The last Tree thrown broke from the  violence of the Current, his Pack and Axe went to the bottom and he had to swim  for his Life.

Praise for Even the Owl Is Not Heard:

“Barbara Verity and Gilles Péloquin are to be congratulated for having added a fascinating and important new chapter to the historical geography of the region. Succeeding brilliantly in combining their extensive biographical research with a thorough and meticulous treatment of Thompson’s original journals, they have brought his travels through the landscapes of the Townships in the 1830s vividly to life in his own words.”

Derek Booth, Historical Geographer

“Even the Owl Is Not Heard contributes greatly to our  understanding of David Thompson’s later years. It enhances the record and  deepens our appreciation of this incredible Canadian. I only wish this work had  been available when I was writing my biography of Thompson.”

D’Arcy  Jenish, Author of Epic Wanderer: David  Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

“We  are indebted to Barbara Verity and Gilles Péloquin for their painstaking work  in bringing to life one of the later and lesser-known episodes in the career of  the great surveyor, David Thompson: his 1834 survey of the Eastern Townships  for the British American Land Company. The qualities for which Thompson is  renowned–his careful observation, vivid prose and spirit of inquiry–animate  his journal of survey, as we follow him from the hoar frost of early May,  through sultry July, to the sleet and snow of mid-November. Thompson’s writings  are clearly presented, and supplemented with several of his letters, while  Verity and Péloquin’s expert annotations and informative sidebars bear witness  to their deep knowledge and evident love of the terrain of the Townships.”

Bill  Moreau, Editor of The Writings of David Thompson

Barbara Verity, Gilles Pélloquin, Illustrations by Denis Palmer

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