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The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada's Indian Residential
School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba
and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in
a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period
when the residential school system was in decline, it produced
several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and
other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the
broader destructive framework of Canadian residential
schools.Stitching together memories of arrival at, day-to-day life
within, and departure from the school with a socio-historical
reconstruction of the school and its position in both Winnipeg and
the larger residential school system, Did You See Us? offers a
glimpse of Assiniboia that is not available in the archival
records. It connects readers with a specific residential school and
illustrates that residential schools were often complex spaces
where forced assimilation and Indigenous resilience co-existed.
These recollections of Assiniboia at times diverge, but together
exhibit Survivor resilience and the strength of the relationships
that bond them to this day. The volume captures the troubled
history of residential schools. At the same time, it invites the
reader to join in a reunion of sorts, entered into through memories
and images of students, staff, and neighbours. It is a gathering of
diverse knowledges juxtaposed to communicate the complexity of the
residential school experience.
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Miracle on the Hudson (Paperback)
The Survivors of Flight 1549, William Prochnau, Laura Parker
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In this heart-stopping tale, the passengers of the Hudson River
crash landing evoke in compelling detail the terrifying explosion
as both engines were destroyed, the violent landing on the river,
and the thrill of their rescue from the wings and from rafts. Jay
McDonald, a thirty-nine-year-old software developer, had survived
brain-tumor surgery just two years earlier and now faced the
unimaginable. Tracey Wolsko, a nervous flier, suddenly became other
people's rock: "Just pray. It's going to be all right." As the
plane started sinking, Lucille Palmer, eighty-five, told her
daughter to save herself: "Just leave me!" Featuring moments of
chaos and stoicism, fortuitous mistakes and quick instincts,
"Miracle on the Hudson "is the chronicle of one of the most
phenomenal stories of recent years, one that could have been a
nightmare and instead became a stirring narrative of heroism and
hope.
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