Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas: Women of the Great White North--A Celebration of Canadian Women

by Ann Douglas

This is the first Canadian pop culture book to focus exclusively on the lives of Canadian women.

Genres: Nonfiction, Canada

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 2002

About the author

Ann Douglas sparks conversations that matter about parenting and mental health. She is a bestselling parenting book author and the former parenting columnist for The Toronto Star and CBC Radio. Her most recent book -- Navigating the Messy Middle: A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women -- has just been published in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Ann is also the author of Happy Parents Happy Kids, Parenting Through the Storm: How to Handle the Highs, the Lows, and Everything in Between, and the creator of The Mother of All Books series: The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, The Mother of All Baby Books, The Mother of All Toddler Books, The Mother of All Parenting Books and The Mother of All Pregnancy Organizers.

A passionate and inspiring speaker, Ann delivers keynote addresses and leads small-group workshops at health and parenting conferences. If you've already met Ann via one her books, you know what you can expect from one of her presentations: to be inspired, informed, and entertained. Not only will she shift your thinking about parenting: she’ll move you to action as well—and in a way that leaves you feeling confident and capable as opposed to anxious, guilty, or overwhelmed.

You can connect with Ann on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Reviews

[Marianne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Partly my reading of this book suffered from expectation mismatch and partly just... Too frothy, too simply equating of womanhood with white cisgender straight womanhood, and the timelines were seemingly unintentionally really depressing and or infuriating. A lot of this felt like stuff I'd read when stuck with a paucity of reading material at the doctor's office. I loved some bits but they were drowned out by the bleah.

[Liz · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought this was something I needed to read, after having great difficulties in sharing or feeling pride in the nation I grew up and still live in, but this was a SEVERE disappointment.
" A celebration of Canadian Women" is a complete LIE. Most of the book details ads and articles in magazines a hundred years ago, and celebrities who have little bearing in the world as a whole.

[Jill · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book was a major disappointment. poorly written, very dated and all common knowledge, I majorly regret my time spent finishing this book. awful.