Unsettling the Settler Within
Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
Unsettling the Settler Within is a powerful call to action that lays bare the myth of the peacemaking settler and points the way toward a meaningful reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians grappling with the legacy of the Indian residential school system.
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Bert Whyte’s fascinating memoir of life as an underground historical rogue who spent 40 years navigating left-wing politics and communism in Canada.
Contesting White Supremacy
School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.
Retail Nation
Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada
Retail Nation traces Canada’s modern consumer culture back to an era when department stores not only ruled, but defined, the nation’s shopping scene.
Manufacturing National Park Nature
Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
Focusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.
The Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
This book documents the religious beliefs and cultural practices that helped sustain and lend meaning to Chinese bachelors in smaller towns and cities of Manitoba.
Defence and Discovery
Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945-74
A revealing investigation into the origins, development, and impact of Canada’s space program from 1945 to 1974.
Dustship Glory
Set in the Dirty Thirties, this prairie classic novel concerns Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build a ship in the middle of a Ssaskatchewan wheatfield.
Corps Commanders
Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-45
Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.
The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah
A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast
Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Clah’s diaries, Peggy Brock offers a riveting portrait of a Tsimshian man and his encounters with colonialism.