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All My Love and Then Some
The Letters of Cpl. Polly G. Meilman RCAF (WD) to Her Parents, 1942-1944
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In the middle of World War II, in September 1942, an enthusiastic eighteen-year-old named Polly Meilman boarded a train to Toronto. She was leaving her home in Nova Scotia for her basic training in the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air...
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Here Come the Cavalry!
Chronicling the History of Professional Soccer in Calgary
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Step into the thrilling and topsy-turvy history of professional soccer in Calgary with this captivating chronicle written by a former player, dedicated fan, and passionate journalist. From the Boomers and Kickers of the 1980s to the present-day...
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The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen
A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78
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Amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s—an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland—young Irish Americans in New York began to question what it meant to be Irish in America. Led...
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The Rugged Danish Settlement
Pass Lake 100 Years
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In 1924, Sibley and McTavish Townships were set aside for settlement by Danish homesteaders. They were eager to take advantage and the opportunity to own land in this new country. The Danish immigrants underwent great trials to clear the land for...
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One Woman's Century
The Collected Essays of Kay Parley
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A remarkable, one-of-a-kind collection. Filled with insight, anecdotes, and fascinating snapshots from the past, ONE WOMAN'S CENTURY is a celebration of the life and work of iconic Saskatchewan author Kay Parley, covering the full scope of her...
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Captain Scott's Scrapbook
Mutinies, Mining and Mysteries
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Amongst the family albums her mother had kept, Margot Dixon found something very curious—Captain Samuel F. Scott’s old scrapbook. Who was this man? And why did her family have his scrapbook? As she read through the book, full of one-of-a-kind...
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The Reesor Siding Tragedy
Canada's Bloodiest Labour Conflict
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Northern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company...
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Escape to Paradise
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Theo Dirks was born in a Mennonite village in the Ukraine. During the Second World War, he and his family were exiled to Siberia, but through disastrous circumstances managed to escape and come back home. When the Germans arrived, Theo was...
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Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory
An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home
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Paul Wojdak’s father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia’s repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they...
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Mightier Than the Sword
How Three Obscure Treaties Sanctioned the Enslavement of Millions and the Exploitation of Continents for More Than 400 Years
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How can words on paper be more devastating than war? Why is there persistent inequality—racial, financial, structural? Why are things in our society the way they are? Mightier Than the Sword: How Three Obscure Treaties Sanctioned the Enslavement...
