The Loxleys and Confederation
- Publisher
- Renegade Arts Entertainment
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2015
- Subjects
- Historical, Post-Confederation (1867-), Action & Adventure
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- ISBN
- 9781989754337
- Publish Date
- Jun 2015
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Double Award Winning Graphic Novel. 2016 Alberta Book Awards Children's/YA Book of the Year and Illustrated Book Award Winner. The follow up to the award winning The Loxleys and the War of 1812, this full colour hardcover graphic novel catches up with the Loxley family in 1864 as new economic and military threats from America once again place the Canadas in grave danger.
The story is told as a travelogue, as reporter George Loxley follows attempts to bring the provinces together, joined by his daughter Ruth, and granddaughter Lilian. It is Lilian’s diary entries and her developing love story that threads the history together.
Claude St. Aubin once again brings his artistic mastery to the subject and Pierre Berton Award Winner Mark Zuehlke takes primary writing duties with both the graphic novel script and historical summary. The book contains 65 comic book pages and an illustrated historical summary written in the style of Lilian’s diary entries.
Free study guide available.
About the authors
Hailed by Jack Granatstein as Canadas leading popular military historian and short-listed for both the 2007 and 2013 Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history, Mark Zuehlke is the author of 26 books, including 14 devoted to military history. Tragedy at Dieppe is the latest in his bestselling Canadian Battle Series, which includes Ortona, The Liri Valley, The Gothic Line, Juno Beach Operation Husky, Holding Juno, Breakout from Juno, Terrible Victory, and On to Victory. He is also the co-author of The Canadian Military Atlas.
Zuehlke first began writing about the role Canadians played in World War II after discussing the Battle of Ortona with several veterans following a Remembrance Day ceremony in Kelowna, B.C. Discovering no book had been written on this pivotal battle, he decided to fill that gap, which resulted in the publication of Ortona: Canadas Epic Worl
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is an Assoc. Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba and one of the writers for The Loxleys and Confederation. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC, and APTN. His written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama and The Guardian.