Educators

In his autobiography, the late historian Frank Eyck recounts the story of his remarkable life, from his time in Nazi Germany as a Jewish schoolboy to his rise as an international authority on both British and German history. Having escaped to Great Britain with his family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the British military …

Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as “Dr.Joe,” stood at the centre of some of the greatest political,social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples incontemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a giftedorator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder andtraditional healer and as an education …

Born in 1943 in Plattsburg, New York, Mary Anne Ducharme came to Cape Breton in 1979, with her husband Richard and their children, Richard and Kathryn. For the past twelve years she has edited Participaper, produced through the Inverness County Department of Recreation. Mary Anne has a Master's Degree in English, and has been a schoolteacher and a …

"Bobbi Lee confronts white Canadian society on the ground that it stole from the First Nations of this country. A tough autobiography of an Indian woman's life from the mud flats of Second Narrows Bridge, Vancouver, to the Toronto of the sixties and seventies, Lee Maracle gives us an important sense of the tough terrain of struggle toward political …

Book Guy is unique. It's a librarian's story of getting books into the hands of rural school children and people in isolated places in the Peace River country and up the Alaska Highway. The story also tells how the mobile service began 50 years ago and traces-not without humour-the remarkable efforts of successive true-grit librarians to overcome t …

Ernest Stabler focuses on six individuals or groups whose ideas led to the founding of educational institutions. Included are N.F.S. Grundtvig (Danish folk high schools), Mary Lyon (Mount Holyoke College), Horace Mann (Massachusetts schools), Moses Coady and James Tompkins (St. Francis Xavier University), Kurt Hahn (Salem and Gordonstoun, Outward B …