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Marie-Anne

The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother

By: Maggie Siggins

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Marie-Anne

The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother

By: Maggie Siggins

Compulsively readable, this first social history of the opening up of the Canadian West is a triumph of historical detective work and gives us Siggins at the top of her game. While researching the biography of Louis Riel, Maggie Siggins became aware of a figure lurking in the background who had had a profound influence on the great Canadian reformer. This was his grand-mother Marie-Anne Lagimodière, née Gaboury. As Siggins’ research progressed, she came to regard Marie-Anne as the most exceptional Canadian woman of the nineteenth century. The perils of Laura Secord and Susanna Moodie paled in comparison, yet she remains largely unknown. Beautiful and rebellious, Marie-Anne was still unmarried at twenty-five—unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Furthermore, once she did marry Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière, she insisted on accompanying her fur trapper husband to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada. The year was 1807, and no European woman had yet ventured west of the Great Lakes region. For the next thirty years, she would live among the native people or at fur-trading forts from Pembina to Edmonton House, leading an undoubtedly difficult life but one with freedoms unknown to women in western societies of her time. Drawing from primary sources, Siggins paints a vivid portrait of life in the West, from survival on the plains and bison hunts to the tribal warfare triggered by the fur-trade economy. Through it all, Marie-Anne survived and thrived, living to ninety-six, the matriarch of a large and diverse family whose descendants still live in Manitoba.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551993252

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9781551993256

Scattered Bones

By: Maggie Siggins

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Scattered Bones

By: Maggie Siggins

Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the construction of a residential school, and ancient acts of violent vengeance are shaping the trajectory of events in the town 200 years later. Based on historical events, Siggins creates a fictional version of the real-life Pelican Narrows, weaving a colorful tale resplendent with its own cavalcade of dynamic, diverse characters - from greedy merchants to the well-meaning but ineffectual clergy - whose stories play out against the backdrop of a visit from a condescending celebrity writer. The conflicts between Aboriginals and settlers, Protestants and Catholics, young and old, traditional and progressive, material and spiritual, all shape life in the little Northern community. Ever eloquent, Siggins proves herself more than capable of creating compelling, thought-provoking fiction with Scattered Bones.

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Coteau Books

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1550506714

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9781550506716

Riel Re-Issue

By: Maggie Siggins

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Riel Re-Issue

By: Maggie Siggins

Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring —and most misunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. -Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel—a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people. Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait is illuminating in its accounts of the people and events that moulded the enigmatic rebel. Revealing a man passionate about forging an equitable and just relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before.

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Harper Perennial

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0006394736

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In Her Own Time

A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

By: Maggie Siggins

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In Her Own Time

A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

By: Maggie Siggins

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of ’61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the ’60s, and were changed by the women’s movement of the ’70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions in history -- the emancipation of half the human race. Inspired by that reunion, Siggins set out to write the life stories of her classmates, using the emerging themes from these intense dramas as a gateway to explore women’s lives throughout history. The result is a compelling series of personal journeys linked by nothing less than an absorbing cultural history of women in the Western world, from antiquity to the present. A book that speaks powerfully to people of all ages -- and especially those of “the cusp generation” -- In Her Own Time is an inspiring, informative and wholly entertaining read.

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HarperCollins Canada

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1443404098

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9781443404099

In Her Own Time : a Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

By: Maggie Siggins

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In Her Own Time : a Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

By: Maggie Siggins

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of '61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the '60s, and were changed by the women's movement of the '70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions in history -- the emancipation of half the human race. Inspired by that reunion, Siggins set out to write the life stories of her classmates, using the emerging themes from these intense dramas as a gateway to explore women's lives throughout history. The result is a compelling series of personal journeys linked by nothing less than an absorbing cultural history of women in the Western world, from antiquity to the present. A book that speaks powerfully to people of all ages -- and especially those of "the cusp generation" -- In Her Own Time is an inspiring, informative and wholly entertaining read.

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HarperPerennial

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0006386296

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9780006386292

Riel

A Life of Revolution

By: Maggie Siggins

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Riel

A Life of Revolution

By: Maggie Siggins

Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring—and most isunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. ‘Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel—a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people. Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait is illuminating in its accounts of the people and events that moulded the enigmatic rebel. Revealing a man passionate about forging an equitable and just relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before.

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HarperCollins Canada

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1443402397

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Bassett

John Bassett's Forty Years in Politics, Publishing, Business and Sports

By: Maggie Siggins

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Bassett

John Bassett's Forty Years in Politics, Publishing, Business and Sports

By: Maggie Siggins

John White Hughes Bassett is an extraordinary figure in Canadian public life, a man who's been at the centre of politics, sports, the media and business for over forty years. True to his style, John Bassett doesn't approve of an independent journalist who's neither a bosom friend nor an implacable foe writing his story. But his public career belongs not only to him but also to the many Torontonians and Canadians whose lives have been touched by his astonishingly diverse activities as a politician, publisher, businessman and sportsman. Based on more than 200 interviews with friends, family, business asociates, critics and enemies, Bassett is a remarkably thorough portrait of a distinguished Canadian publisher, broadcaster and businessman.

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James Lorimer & Company

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0888622856

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Scattered Bones

By: Maggie Siggins

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Coteau Books

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1550506714

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Bitter Embrace

White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree

By: Maggie Siggins

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Bitter Embrace

White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree

By: Maggie Siggins

July 14, 2003: Flin Flon lawyer Michael Bomek pleads guilty to six counts of sexual assault on young Cree men, some of whom come from the community of Pelican Narrows. His crime is emblematic of white culture' s assault on this Rock Cree community. On the one hand, he was a dedicated lawyer who won 75 per cent of his cases for his native clients. On the other, he was an unthinkably corrupting influence. For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows has endured an equally torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. By scrupulously researching the history of a community she has known for much of her life, by using oral history and documenting the personal stories of contemporary Pelican Narrows Cree, Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of native issues. Her storytelling powers are formidable and the portrait she gives us of this single Saskatchewan community is unforgettable.

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346

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0771080603

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9780771080609

Search and Rescue

True Stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116

By: Lorna Siggins

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Search and Rescue

True Stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116

By: Lorna Siggins

On 13 March 2017, the Rescue 116 crew of Capt. Dara Fitzpatrick, Capt. Mark Duffy, Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith took off from Dublin airport just after 2300 hours for a medical evacuation off the west coast. The first indication of disaster came when the crew failed to answer a radio call at 12.46 a.m. At 02.16 hours, sister helicopter Rescue 118 spotted a casualty and debris in the water. There would be no survivors from R116, and extensive searches failed to locate the bodies of two of the four crew. The crash occurred just six months after the loss of another experienced volunteer, Caitriona Lucas from Doolin Coast Guard in Co Clare; and 18 years after the loss of four Air Corps crew who were returning from a night rescue in thick fog off the south-east coast. In Search and Rescue, Lorna Siggins exposes the shocking systemic flaws that led to these tragic deaths, but also looks at successful rescues where, despite all the odds, the courage and dedication of members of the Irish Coast Guard and the volunteers who work with them have saved countless lives, including the dramatic rescue of paddleboarders Sara Feeney and Ellen Glynn off the coast of Clare in 2020.

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Merrion Press

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1785373587

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9781785373589

Bitter Embrace

White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree

By: Maggie Siggins

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White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree

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Brian & the Boys

By: Siggins, Maggie

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Brian & the Boys

By: Siggins, Maggie

This is the story of a generation that went bad. Of six guys who lived for booze and dope, sex and rock. When they finally had their showdown with the Law, they decided to sink or swim together. They sank. What got Brian and the boys in trouble were two women who said the gang lured them back to their Toronto hangout, then repeatedly raped and abused them. It didn't look good in court: two women who had never met each other had been able to quickly pick Brian and his buddies out of a group, and gave strikingly similar accounts of how they'd been terrorized. The prison sentences totalled eighty-seven years. Yet to this day the men maintain they are innocent. What makes men commit such brutal crimes against women? How should the justice system deal with them? These are the questions Maggie Siggins sought to answer by investigating the events of April 23 and May 15, 1979, and by exploring the backgrounds of the Lauder gang and the women they victimized. But as she delved into the incredible web of allegations, lies and inconsistencies that surrounded the stories of the rapes, the ideas of "aggressor" and "victim" became much less useful, blurred by a cloud of questions about what really happened on those two evenings.

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Lorimer

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0888626592

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9780888626592

Bassett

John Bassett's forty years in politics, publishing, business and sports

By: Siggins, Maggie

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John Bassett's forty years in politics, publishing, business and sports

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James Lorimer & Company

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1552779491

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