Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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My Darling Patty
by Ellen Heenan Reddy
After her mother suffered a stroke, Ellen Heenan Reddy hastily packed her mother’s belongings and moved her from Michigan into Ellen’s Wisconsin home. Among those rapidly gathered items was a simple bag from Target found at the back of an ...
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Caught!
The Travels and Travails of John W. Kerr, Fisheries Overseer, 1812 -1888 by Joel B. Kerr
John W. Kerr (1812–1888) was a man way ahead of his time. As Ontario’s first fisheries overseer, a position he held for twenty-four years, he strove not only to enforce the country’s nascent fishing laws but also to protect fish stocks and the ...
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Exile
by Waltraut Wiens
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, thousands of women and children in West Prussia were forced to flee from their homes, driven into the Unknown by a relentless enemy. As hunger and bitter cold took the lives of their children, mothers ...
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Behind the Green Door
From the land of Windmills to the Land of the Maple Leaf by Erna de Burger Fex
Behind the Green Door is a collection of stories that will make you laugh but also may bring a tear to your eye while you read in vivid detail the challenges of an immigrant child and the struggles of being uprooted to a new land without ...
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Walk With Me, My Son
You and I Have Some Stories to Tell by Richard Asmet Awid
In 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects. So begins Richard ...
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The Painted Skirt
by Theresa Lee
Heartbroken after her short love affair, and her dream of becoming a concert pianist shattered, Inju returns home from her schooling abroad, and finds herself pregnant, alone, and without options in a strict Confucian society that is sure to condemn ...
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The Black Suitcase
by John E. Morrison.
Growing up poor in mid-century Limerick is a nightmare of eviction, food deprivation, flea-bites, and never enough heat. An orange at Christmas is a massive treat. And yet Seanie Morrisey, despite having to beg, scavenge, and steal to help his ...
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Doug Peters
Bay Street Economist on Parliament Hill by David W. Peters
Doug Peters was one of the most prominent business economists in Canada between 1966 and 1992 in his role as chief economist of the Toronto Dominion Bank. He was an outspoken critic of the economic policies of the Progressive Conservative government ...
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A Journey of Faith Across a Turbulent Century
Memoirs of a Refugee Pastor by Philipp Weingartner
How do you find the courage to go on when everything you knew is gone? That is a question faced by Philipp Weingartner several times in his life. Born into a family of insignificant farm labourers in a town, region, and country erased from our ...
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A Past Rescued From Oblivion
A Self-Portrait of an Audacious Young Woman Defying the Conventions of her Time by Vilma Vukelić
This book is written in the form of a memoir and covers the events in the life of its author, Vilma Vukelić from her earliest childhood (she was born in 1880) to 15 August 1904, the day her first child, Branko was born. It is a contribution to ...
