History
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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...
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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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Mrs. Simcoe
A Life in the Age of Revolution by Kerry M. Abel
Born into war and orphaned at birth, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe lived through some of the most dramatic upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the genteel world of the English landed gentry to rugged colonial Canada,...
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Canada, Canadians and The Beatles
by John Robert Arnone
THE STORY OF THE BEATLES IS THE STORY OF CANADA AND CANADIANS With all that has been written about the world’s greatest band, you are holding something new! Finally, a book that offers a well-paced, entertaining look at Canada’s proud, oversized...
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The Revenge of History
Reflections on the Spanish Colonial Heritage and Social Revolution in the Americas by Mark T. Berger
At its peak, the Spanish Empire had colonies on almost every continent in the world. One of the regions most affected by Spanish colonialism was Latin America. In The Revenge of History: Reflections on the Spanish Colonial Heritage and Social...
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Little Temple on the Prairie
A History of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple by Megan Kiyoko Wray
During World War II, displaced Japanese Canadians arrived in Manitoba, having lost everything to government-ordered internment and forced exile. Scattered across rural farms, they faced harsh conditions, deep isolation, and the daunting task of...
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Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment
Environmental Activism and Goverment Stewardship by Donald H. Avery
Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment explores the intersection of politics and conservation, business and public interests, and government and not-for-profit organizations over more than six decades to protect what is today a UNESCO World...
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Venus Passing
The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance by Dan Azoulay
Historians have written a great deal about the military aspects of Canada’s Great War but little about the most intimate dimension of Canada’s wartime experience: heterosexual romance. Did romance influence a man’s decision to go to war or his...
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The McNair-Flemming Years, Volume 2
A Public Record of Uncertain Times, New Brunswick 1930-1960 by James G. Long
The McNair-Flemming Years Volume 2, relates a shift of influence by the print media. Newspaper reporting of peacetime events had always expressed a known degree of partisan views, but these suddenly became toxic. The result was a transition of...
