History
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Shadows Across The Line
Voices of The Displaced by Senol Tasdelen
In Shadows Across the Line: Voices of the Displaced, author Senol Tasdelen examines the causes, the history, and the consequences of migration patterns around the globe and relates the personal stories of some of those who risked everything in a...
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Track Changes
The Origin Story of Canadian Music on the Internet (1990-2010) by Cam Gordon
Track Changes: The Origin Story of Canadian Music on the Internet (1990–2010) is the first book of its kind to document a cultural revolution in Canada, one now buried under broken URLs, corrupted hard drives, and discarded cell phones. Long...
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The Elusive Conquest of Queen Califa
California History Revisited by Alan Ehrgott
It was then that John and I were slapped awake by the brilliant color and majestic presence of our hosts. The walls and ceilings that gave us shelter by night had, in the morning’s light, come alive with the vivid forms of men, deer, mountain...
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More Than History
Stories of Helena Petrov Thiessen (1909-1996) and Peter Aron Reimer (1903-1958) by Victor Reimer
Yes, this is family history! It is an immigrant story. It includes significant scholastic research. It situates the personal and family narrative within the broader political, economic, and social context of the 1920s and the subsequent decades....
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Voices from Viet Nam
Local Histories on the Road to Peace by Rex Eaton
Based on interviews with survivors of “the American War,” Voices from Việt Nam delivers a moving portrait of a people who have succeeded, against great odds, in overcoming the horrors of war and occupation without bitterness—but also without...
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The Making of a Radical Immigrant
by Ivana Caccia
The radical immigrant in the title of this book, Edo Jardas, was a young Croatian who arrived in Canada in May 1926 and worked for several years as a lumberjack in the hinterland of British Columbia. He was a loyal member of the Communist Party...
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Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages by Abigail Carl-Klassen
In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tres Culturas region is a place where Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous Rarámuri people live, forming a crossroad of traditions, languages, and ways of living. A landscape of convergence and divergence, breaking and...
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Old Town Victoria
Walk Through Time by David Wright Mason
For over a decade, local historian and walking tour guide Dave Mason has been uncovering the rich architectural and cultural heritage of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. This guidebook brings together years of meticulous research—rooted in...
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The Broken Furrow
The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada by Jeffrey R. Thomas
If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic. From his childhood...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada by Judy Ann
In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
