History, Social History
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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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Making of the World
Sapiens' Journey From Wilderness to Civilization by Mahbub H. Khan
Humanity was once scattered into small-sized, nomadic groups that barely knew each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single community, related by a common origin and similar aspirations—the world—began to ...
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A Mount Lehman Native Son
The Life and Times of Doug Taylor by Gordon Taylor
This book is a biography of my father, who died in 1998. He has left many notes in anticipation of writing a book or books himself, primarily to highlight his heritage, upbringing, and the history of the area in BC in which he lived, namely Mount ...
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Growing Up Canadian
Canada and its Youth Come of Age 1960-1980 by Clyde Woolman
The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country. Chapters range from TV to sports, music ...
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Chrysalis I
Metamorphosis of Odium by Jozef Borovský
This book does not claim absolute truths, but it speaks for those who can no longer speak for themselves by the histories they witnessed, wrote about, and which defined their ancestors and descendants, including the most powerful woman that ever ...
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Memories of Turtle Lake
The Story of Sunset View Beach by Kevin W. Hope
Memories of Turtle Lake and the Story of Sunset View Beach tells the story of an idyllic community in Northwest Saskatchewan from its first wave of doomed homesteaders in the early 1900s through to its success as a residential lake community today. ...
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Nii Ndahlohke
Boys' and Girls' Work at Mount Elgin Industrial School, 1890-1915 by Mary Jane Logan McCallum
This book takes its title from the phrase for “I work” in Lunaape, the traditional language of Munsee Delaware people, and was inspired by the work of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. Written for the descendants and communities of ...
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Indomitable Canadian Filipinos
by Eleanor R. Laquian
In the 70- year history of Filipino migration to Canada, their number has increased from 770 in 1964 to about a million in 2021. Yet no book has been written and published in Canada about the Filipino community in its entirety. This book fills that ...
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Tales of Their Lives
by Daphne Field
The family biographies I have written are the stories of my ancestors, our ancestors: How they lived; how they struggled, being surrounded by their families, their social history, and geography until their eventual death. Some died prematurely while ...
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Through My Eyes
The Journal of Belle Munro (Saskatoon 1908 to 1918) by Margaret Munro
Through My Eyes are the diaries of Belle Munro as imagined by her grand-daughter, Frances Margaret Munro. It chronicles the life and times of the Munro family from their arrival in Saskatoon in 1908 through to the end of the First World War. Through ...
