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Clearing the Plains
James Daschuk
This book reveals how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, sparking widespread debate about genocide in Canada.
In arresting-but-harrowing prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics — the politics of ethnocide — played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."
The Frances Morrison Central Library officially opened on May 28, 1966. This facility was named after Frances Morrison, who served as Saskatoon Public Library’s (SPL) chief librarian from 1961 to 1980. The Frances Morrison Central Library is the largest of SPL’s nine libraries and houses a dedicated Children’s Department, Fine Arts Department, Local History Room, Theatre, a computer lab, Innovation Lab, SPL's Writer in Residence, Accessibility Services and various administrative offices.