New Releases by Margaret Steele

Margaret Steele grew up in Niagara Falls. As a descendant of the Porters, who were among the first European immigrants to settle in the area, she was always hearing interesting and colorful stories of her ancestors. Late in life she became especially interested in Elizabeth and Peter A. Porter, the children of General Peter B. Porter and his southern wife Letitia Breckinridge. Elizabeth and Peter were born in the 1820s and lived in a time of extraordinary change. New villages and farms were springing up, railroads were beginning to crisscross the countryside, and steamships were replacing sailing vessels. It was also a time of mounting tension and division in the new nation. Native Americans were being brutally expelled from their lands and recurring epidemics of disease swept through communities, leaving death and despair in their wake. Slavery was a stain on the country, one that ultimately culminated in the tragedy of the Civil War. In Niagara, where the great cataract''s thunderous fall seemed to presage the catastrophe to come, Elizabeth and Peter Porter met the challenges of their century with courage and conviction. This book, an amalgam of fact and fiction, tells the story of their lives as it imagines their loves, their passions and their principles.

This paper synthesizes the findings from work conducted for CMHC that looked at empirical and other evidence of social and economic outcomes attributable to affordable housing. The synthesis summarizes the key finding on the relationship between stable, affordable housing and: occupant health, family stability/separation and divorce rates, educational outcomes, labour participation and propensity to seek work, crime rates and safety, children and child development. It highlights relationships found between housing affordability and crowding and housing condition and housing stability, as well as the intervening factors and influences that may have equal or stronger impacts on outcomes than these housing factors alone. A limitation of this research is that few studies have been done in the Canadian context, and a disproportionate number of studies examined came from the US.

In NUMBERS with Pepper, we join Pepper, an adorable, spirited dog, as she battles boredom by finding her toys throughout the house and back yard. In doing so, we count to 10 as Pepper finds her ball, duck, sneaker, tennis ball, donut, rope, bone, bear, penguin, and pull toy. Once found, Pepper then goes in search of her friends to share. Artwork is photography with delightful embellishments. The design of the book also allows it to be read as a story. This is part of a series. Other titles are: COLORS with Pepper and ALPHABET with Pepper.

Presents twelve contemporary works of art each of which displays a body, then focuses on a specific part of that body on the opposite page.