History
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Making of the World
Sapiens' Journey From Wilderness to Civilization by Mahbub H. Khan
This book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA). Humanity was once divided into thousands of small nomadic groups, hardly knowing each other. ...
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1894
The Deeper Story of Moose Factory's Great Flood by Jean Pierre Chabot
1894: The Deeper Story of Moose Factory’s Great Flood is an account of an ice jam-induced flood that occurred at the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post on Moose Factory Island, which is situated along the James Bay coast in Canada's north. ...
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Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past
by Andrew MacLean
Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. This extraordinary collection gathers the very best from Andrew MacLean’s popular newspaper ...
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New Country, New Life
A Family Memoir by Chrystyna Zorych Holman
What is it like to leave behind everything and everyone you’ve ever known amidst terror, trauma, and war, knowing you will never see them again? How must it feel to come to a strange, new land, and have to build a community from scratch? And what, ...
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My Father's Letters
Romance Amidst War by Garth M. Stiebel
Framed by the violence and chaos of a global conflict is my parents’ love story, touchingly told in a series of letters from Max to Rosaleen from the day after they met in 1941 to my mother’s disembarkation in Halifax from the Queen Mary as a war ...
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Following the Echoes
The Quest to Uncover a True Wartime Story of Love, Loss, and Legacy by Claudia Fox Reppen and Lance Fox
After the death of their British-born Grandma Gladys in 2021, siblings Claudia and Lance took a sudden interest in the Canadian fiancé Gladys lost during World War II, Wendell “Del” Pierce Drew, a member of the elite RAF Pathfinder Force with Bomber ...
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My Mother's Legacy
by Bonita Nowell
A survival story and celebration of one woman’s life, My Mother's Legacy is also a glimpse of the spirit, culture, and history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. From life on the trapline in the Far North to meeting the Pope at the Vatican, this is ...
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Daleka Doroha
A Long Road by Michael Podworniak
Daleka Doroha, which was originally published in 1963 in Ukrainian is a memoir of Michael Podworniak, who in March 1944 left his beloved Volyn in Ukraine and crossed into Halychyna which during that time was under Polish control. He left behind his ...
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Hoping to Hear from You Soon
Canadian War Letters, 1940-1945 by Sheila M. Cornett
Born in 1948, Sheila Cornett grew up in a time when almost everyone’s father had served in the Second World War. Like many veterans of that conflict, her own father did not talk about his wartime experiences. Six decades later and after her mother’s ...
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The Big Red Dog
American Mistrust of Russians by William Craig Lachowsky
The Big Red Dog: American Mistrust of Russians exposes the dual realities that exist in the United States today: the reality experienced by Russian Americans and the one experienced by everyone else. Without mincing words, author William Lachowsky ...
