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TONIGHT at 7:00 PM
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
211 Bernard St West (map) 

Join us this evening for a double book launch of two MQUP books:

Sandra Djwa’s Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page was recently named the 2013 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. An awards ceremony will be held tomorrow at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall, where His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present the awards.

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McGill-Queen’s is delighted to announce that Sandra Djwa’s Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page has been awarded the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to Sandra!

An awards ceremony will take place at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall on November 28th.

Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a … Read More >

Thursday, November 7th, 2013
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Brooklyn Law School
Subotnick Center, 11th Floor
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Please join us for the launch of Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason at Brooklyn Law School’s Subotnick Center.

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The following is an excerpt from Lord Mansfield.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, dominated the … Read More >

Grant Hayter-Menzies had a full house for his launch of Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum on October 12th in Vancouver.

We’re excited to have Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton, as today’s guest blogger.

This past summer,  I was presented with a collection of antique shadow figures, painted parchment veterans of performances in China from some seventy years ago. The collection was chosen for me by its owner, Cui Yongping, … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s is thrilled to announce that Sandra Djwa’s Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page is a finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Congratulations to Sandra!

The winners will be announced on November 13th at a press conference in Toronto. An awards ceremony will take place at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall … Read More >

The following excerpt is from Sandra Campbell’s Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press.

In the eastern Ontario village of Delta, on gables and eaves atop the rosy brick of the old buildings, sheets of patterned tin siding sold by Edward Pierce’s hardware business still gleam in the sun. The sheeting was … Read More >

The following excerpt is from Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton, by Grant Hayter-Menzies.

At least throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century, walled Beijing was, as David Strand points out, one of the few Chinese cities that “looked so traditional and Chinese and at the same time harbored the essentials of modern … Read More >

The following is excerpted from Barry Gough’s “Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation” in Harold Innis and the North, edited by William J. Buxton. 

The beaver was a means for Innis to explain history. It was the subject of the staple trade as long as the beaver felt hat was in fashion (until … Read More >